01298cam a2200241 4500 117732694 TxAuBib 20121114120000.0 090521s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009020768 9780385340281 0385340281 (OCoLC)303041974 TxAuBib Steel, Danielle. Southern lights [book] : a novel / Danielle Steel. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, 2009. 326 p. ; 25 cm. Eleven years ago 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, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private life thrown in turmoil by a series of threatening letters, she is forced to send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreak. 20100125. TXEDP