Don't Tell Mom About This

-- ORPHAN - AGENT - DAUGHTER - PAWN --Elise feels like shes always getting things wrong -- from a murderous psychopath as a best friend to a big sister whos four years younger twice as smart and a real bitch sometimes.She was the mixed-race child of an unmarried white woman in Apartheid South Africa then the unsuspecting social experiment of a minority rights activist in Boston. She proved herself to be a capable counterintelligence officer but was still labeled the office quota-filler. While working undercover she became close with the people she was investigating.And they tried to put a bullet in her head.Now shes out after nine years in federal prison -- physically scarred emotionally damaged and neurotic as hell. Shes offered a job by an ultra-secretive security company tracking a financial con artist whos targeting one of the worlds most powerful & ruthless men. Her gut tells her to have nothing to do with it but the money they offer is her best shot at starting over. If she goes it may mean never coming back. If caught shell be the one thrown back into prison. Of course she has to survive it all first.The problem is theres a troubled little girl inside of her who keeps getting underfoot threatening to trip Elise up every step of the way.Shes done dumber things before. Many times. She considers it her gift.