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J. D. Robb, author of Desperation in Death

New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a 13-year-old runaway, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who’d hatched the escape plan. Unfortunately, they didn’t get away fast enough. Now Dorian is injured, terrified and wandering the streets of New York, and Mina lies dead near the waterfront while Lt. Eve Dallas looks over the scene. Mina’s expensive, elegant clothes and beauty products convince Dallas that she was being groomed, literally and figuratively, for sex trafficking --- and that whoever is investing in this high-overhead operation expects windfall profits.

Week of December 26, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of December 26th include DARK HORSE, the seventh installment in Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X series, which finds Evan Smoak (aka The Nowhere Man) facing his most challenging mission ever; Christopher Golden's new supernatural thriller, ROAD OF BONES, in which an American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia; HOW THE WORD IS PASSED, Clint Smith's compelling debut work of nonfiction that examines the legacy of slavery in America --- and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives; and the paperback original MS. DEMEANOR by Elinor Lipman, a delicious and witty story about love under house arrest.