The Award-Winning Emily Calby Series -Best Psychological Thriller of 2021 (BestThrillers.com) -Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize Semifinalist -IndieReader Discovery Award for Fiction -Feathered Quill Medal for Mystery/Suspense -National Indie Excellence Award Finalist -Readers' Favorite Awards in both Suspense and New Adult fiction Emily Calby's destiny as a justice-seeker was cast at age twelve when two men invaded her rural Georgia home and murdered her family. The only survivor, she ran away and went missing. Ex-gang member Lucas Jackson took her in off the streets and became her family. He taught her a lot, including how to survive-and kill. Arrested for murder at sixteen, Emily discovered a new path to justice in a prison library. The Law. Yet the struggle within her to right wrongs by any means necessary continues. Now she's twenty and excited to start law school in sunny Florida. One problem. She's being stalked. Or is she? Traumatized by her past, she lives in a state of hypervigilance where the ordinary seems ominous. An anonymous welcome note. A moved houseplant. A broken starfish. They're nothing ... but still. Determined to be the warrior and survivor Lucas taught her to be, she suffers in secret while navigating the rites and rigors of law school, where trouble follows her every move. From a budding romance that's not what it seems to a legendary professor in need of help-and Justice. This standalone title is book 3 in the award-winning Emily Calby Series, joining The Hiding Girl and The Girl in Cell 49B.
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