Cry Mercy: A Mercy Street Novel

Abandoned shortly after her birth, Ann Nolan knows what it's like to grow up without a real home or a loving parent. Now a California beat cop, she's adopted the daughter of a notorious drug dealer and has become a loving single parent to Chloe. When the ruthless father makes it clear he'll stop at nothing to take back his child, Ann flees, changes her name, and starts a new life as an investigator for the Mercy Street Foundation, the billionaire-endowed organization dedicated to finding missing persons. As Emme Caldwell, she takes the lead on the Foundation's first case. Nineteen-year-old Belinda Hudson disappeared from her sorority house leaving behind one cryptic clue on her calendar. Retracing the vanished student's steps leads Emme to Heaven's Gate, a fertility clinic, and the mysterious Donor 1735. As Belinda's guardian, Nick Perone shadows Emme's every move as she searches for his niece. But the closer Emme gets to Donor 1735 and the chilling truth, the more apparent it becomes that she's escaped one dangerous man only to run head-on into another - one who's far more determined and every bit as deadly.

In this follow-up to "Mercy Street," brilliant crime-scene investigator Emme Caldwell takes the lead in Mercy Street Foundation's first case: the disappearance of a 19-year-old co-ed, which is somehow connected with a fertility clinic and a mysterious donor. Original.

Mariah Stewart is the award-winning author of the Last series: Last Look, Last Words, and Last Breath; the Truth series: Cold Truth, Hard Truth, Dark Truth, and Final Truth; and the Dead series: Dead Even, Dead Wrong, Dead C