One shattered birthday party.
Two teenage victims.
A city drowning in fentanyl.
The Weird Girl
A Georgia Thayer Novel #2
by Carla Damron
Genre: Women’s Suspenseful Crime Fiction
One shattered birthday party. Two teenage victims. A city drowning in fentanyl.
Social worker Georgia Thayer (The Orchid Tattoo) has spent her career fighting for the vulnerable, but nothing could prepare her for being a foster mom to Tessa—a teenager haunted by her traumatic past. Determined to give her a normal life, Georgia’s efforts to give her a normal life crumble when a neighborhood party spirals into disaster, leaving one girl fighting for her life while another disappears from the front yard of her family’s home.
As Georgia undertakes a frantic search for the missing girl, she uncovers a dangerous fentanyl trade that snakes from hospital emergency rooms to high school hallways to the darkest corners of her city. She is up against a charismatic candidate for attorney general and a ruthless drug kingpin, two powerful men willing to use lethal means to bury their secrets.
With her chosen family threatened, her faith in herself shaken, and an unexpected ally emerging from the shadows, Georgia’s efforts to save one girl puts her own in danger.
The clock is ticking. The truth is deadly. And every second lost could mean another life destroyed.
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The Orchid Tattoo
A Georgia Thayer Novel #1
Crime fiction that makes a difference: in The Orchid Tattoo, award-winning author Carla Damron delves into the disturbing world of human trafficking.
Social worker Georgia Thayer can balance her own mental illness with the demands of an impossible job. Mostly. But when her sister vanishes in the dead of night, her desperate quest to find Peyton takes her into the tentacles of a human trafficking network-where she encounters a young victim called “Kitten.”
Kitten is determined to escape. She won’t be trapped like the others. She won’t sell her soul like Lillian, victim-turned-madam, feeding the dark appetites of international business moguls and government leaders. But the Estate won’t let her out of its lethal grip, and her attempts at freedom threaten her very life.
Aided by Kitten and, at times, by the voices in her head, Georgia maneuvers to bring down the kingpin of Estate and expose its dark secrets, but her efforts place her-and the few people she allows to get close-in grave danger.
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Carla Damron believes fiction can make a difference. A social worker, advocate, and author of suspense, women’s fiction, and mysteries, Damron uses her writing to put a human face on issues like drug abuse, mental illness, and human trafficking. She’s won multiple literary awards, including the Women’s Fiction Writers Association Star Award for Best Novel and the NIEA award for best suspense.
Damron holds an MSW and an MFA in Creative Writing and teaches with Writers.com. Currently the VP for the Southeast Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, she lives in South Carolina with her husband and their family of entitled rescue animals.
You can read more about her at https://carladamron.com/
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