{"product_id":"southern-lights-9780440243328","title":"Southern Lights","description":"Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel--at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e SOUTHERN LIGHTS \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eleven years have passed since 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, 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's toughest cases. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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's 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's world of southern tradition and memories of betrayal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While Alexa's 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 - strengthened by the challenges they have faced and changed by the mysteries they have unraveled. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the gritty chaos of Manhattan's 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, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Lights\u003c\/i\u003e will catch you off guard at every turn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780440243328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.85h x 4.26w x 1.13d","brand":"Danielle Steel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43059694043317,"sku":"9780440243328","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f8b374a3-aa97-4df5-9cee-71bd42477351.jpg?v=1690297140","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/southern-lights-9780440243328","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}