Always the Blood

by Ginna Leatherbury

Sarah, a pregnant, teenaged girl, runs away from NYC and everything she knows. Her destination, a home for unwed mothers in Rochester, NY. Within weeks she loses the baby and her free housing. Determined to make it on her own, she pounds the pavement and finds a job that seems too good to be true. And it is. Sarah’s life becomes inescapably tied to the mob. She not only works for it, she marries it and has a baby suspiciously soon thereafter. A brutal murder spree eviscerates daydreams of happily ever after. Sarah and her best friend Cassie are the only survivors. They separate for safety reasons, never to see each other again. ˃˃˃ A decade later, there is a coordinated hit to take out both women. Sarah is hunted as she sits in the back of a courtesy van on the Long Island Expressway and is executed. She never makes it to the urgent meeting she requested with her high school flame. The hit on Cassie, who is waking up in the Florida Keys after a one-night stand, fails. ˃˃˃ With a bounty on her head and nowhere else to turn, Cassie puts her trust in Deputy James Lager, revealing her true identity. Lager is a by the book cop. Until now. Together they must travel from the Florida Keys to NYC without getting killed. The life of an innocent is at stake. A teenager, who has no idea she has blood connections to the mob.