01608cam a2200301 4500 266937004 TxAuBib 20160101120000.0 090521s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009020768 9780385340281 acid-free paper 0385340281 acid-free paper TxAuBib Steel, Danielle. Southern lights / Danielle Steel. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, 2009. 326 p. ; 25 cm. Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private life thrown in turmoil by a series of threatening letters, she is forced to send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreak. 20160101. Public prosecutors New York (State) New York Fiction. Divorced women Fiction. Single mothers Fiction. Trials (Murder) Fiction. Serial murderers Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Rich people South Carolina Charleston Fiction.