The heroine is a cop investigating two murdered girls with the same tatoo: white magnolia on the shoulder. Young Asian girls are brought in USA and sold as slaves - to work 17-18 hours a day for a meager meal, a mat in the garage to sleep on to work in illigal working houses to work in dark alley brothels. The slavery is the focal point: not only sexual, but mostly labour. and here the preaching is minimal and very cleverly vowen into the story so it doesn't detract, but add! :) Not that I have anything against Christian Fiction - I just don't like preaching. I tought it was RS, but I still like it, maybe because it was light on Christian and good on the Crime. Very good! I didn't notice that this was a Christian Fiction.
I also really liked that the two characters were already dating when the story started, so there weren't a lot of distracting zings of early attraction. The mystery was well plotted, layered, and difficult to guess the end of. No one ever dreamed there were several dozen girls in the basement.) The scenario was very realistic I actually knew someone from an average middle-class neighborhood who was only one street over from a major trafficking ring that got busted while I lived there (and the only thing the neighbors noticed amiss was that the family had regular company who often played their car music a little loud. Harris tackles the issue of human trafficking, something I'm deeply concerned about. Now I can hardly wait to grab the other two books of the series and devour them, especially after I read the synopses on them!! I really enjoyed the author's style and felt she really nailed the idea of Atlanta, since I lived there for three and a half years. It took me only a couple chapters to connect with these characters. (Thanks Chantel for challenging me to read this!)
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