R. M. Burgess Roxy Reid

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Roxy Reid begins life as the abused child of a drug-addict mother. She grows up in aneighborhood terrorized by street gangs. She witnesses the murder of her own child's father,a married man more than twice her age. But she's a survivor. Heavily pregnant, she escapes to New York to give her unborn child a fresh start. She reinvents herself as a successful banker, a dedicated mother, and strives to forget herviolent previous life. Twelve years have passed. She's built a safe, sheltered arbor of respectability for herdaughter and herself. She's content with her life of frenetic work combined with the trialsof single parenting a precocious preteen. But then a chance meeting sets in motion a seriesof events that threaten to bring down her facade of normalcy. Roxy tries desperately to keep her life on its metronomic routine and preserveappearances. But in a roller-coaster holiday season between Thanksgiving and New Year'sDay, the genie of her past is well and truly released from the bottle. To confront it, she willhave to use all the vicious life skills of her youth. But will this cause her to lose the onething she cherishes, above all else, the love of her daughter?