Shady Cross

In one hand, small-time crook Stokes holds a backpack stuffed with someone else s money three hundred and fifty thousand dollars of it.

In the other hand, Stokes has a cell phone, which he found with the money. On the line, a little girl he doesn t know asks, Daddy? Are you coming to get me? They say if you give them the money they ll let you take me home.

From bestselling author James Hankins comes a wrenching story of an unscrupulous man torn between his survival instincts and the plight of a true innocent. Faced with the choice, Stokes discovers his conscience might not be as corroded as he thought."