Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel\u2014at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment.<\/p>\n
SOUTHERN LIGHTS<\/p>\n
Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband\u2019s betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, Alexa has finally put her demons to rest, raising her daughter alone and making a name for herself as a top prosecutor taking on some of the city\u2019s toughest cases.<\/p>\n
But as Alexa prepares for her latest case, the high-stakes trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin, threatening letters addressed to Savannah, her beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, throw Alexa\u2019s private life into turmoil. Certain that Quentin is behind the letters, Alexa must make the toughest choice of all: to send her daughter back to her ex-husband\u2019s world of southern tradition and memories of betrayal.<\/p>\n
While Alexa\u2019s trial builds to a climax in New York, her daughter settles into southern life, discovering a father and family history she barely knows. As secrets are exposed and old wounds are healed, Alexa and Savannah, after a season in different worlds, will come together again \u2013 strengthened by the challenges they have faced and changed by the mysteries they have unraveled.<\/p>\n
From the gritty chaos of Manhattan\u2019s criminal court system to the seductive gentility of the South, from the rage of a hardened criminal to the tender bond between a mother and a daughter,\u00a0Southern Lights<\/span>\u00a0will catch you off guard at every turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel\u2014at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment.<\/p>\n SOUTHERN LIGHTS<\/p>\n Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband\u2019s betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, Alexa has finally put her demons to rest, raising her daughter alone and making a name for herself as a top prosecutor taking on some of the city\u2019s toughest cases.<\/p>\n But as Alexa prepares for her latest case, the high-stakes trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin, threatening letters addressed to Savannah, her beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, throw Alexa\u2019s private life into turmoil. Certain that Quentin is behind the letters, Alexa must make the toughest choice of all: to send her daughter back to her ex-husband\u2019s world of southern tradition and memories of betrayal.<\/p>\n While Alexa\u2019s trial builds to a climax in New York, her daughter settles into southern life, discovering a father and family history she barely knows. As secrets are exposed and old wounds are healed, Alexa and Savannah, after a season in different worlds, will come together again \u2013 strengthened by the challenges they have faced and changed by the mysteries they have unraveled.<\/p>\n From the gritty chaos of Manhattan\u2019s criminal court system to the seductive gentility of the South, from the rage of a hardened criminal to the tender bond between a mother and a daughter,\u00a0Southern Lights<\/span>\u00a0will catch you off guard at every turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[174,167],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3315","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-mystery-fiction","product_cat-thriller","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","add-to-wishlist-after_add_to_cart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}