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Stacy awakens after a four‑year coma, determined to locate, identify, and prosecute the young man responsible for killing her mother and injuring her. The suspenseful story follows her relentless pursuit of justice, placing her, a young adult, in the midst of a detective investigation.
First publish date: July 1, 1987
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: Joan Lowery Nixon
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