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Eve Dallas is one tough cop Shexs got no problem dealing with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term xCsidewalk SantaxD But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up itxs all Eve can do to hold it together Instantly shexs plunged back into the past to the days when she was a vulnerable traumatized girl - trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits in front of her smiling Trudy claims she just wanted to see how Eve was doing But Evexs husband Roarke suspects otherwise - and his suspicions prove correct when Trudy arrives at his office demanding money in exchange for keeping the ugly details of his wifexs childhood a secret Barely restraining himself Roarke shows her the door - and makes it clear that shexd be wise to get out of New York and never bother him or his wife again But just a few days later Trudyxs found on the floor of her hotel room a mess of bruises and blood A cop to the core Eve is determined to solve the case if only for the sake of Trudyxs bereaved son Unfortunately Eve is not the only one to have suffered at this womanxs hands and she and Roarke will follow a circuitous dangerous path to find out who turned this victimizer into a victim.