Just Reckoning

Investigative reporter Tess Alexander, a prize-winning journalist from northern California, has spent her career chasing danger, but her newest assignment reaches into the global trade in human beings. After she meets Ekaterina Voitenko, a woman who was abducted as a little girl from the Black Sea coast of Crimea and held in sexual slavery for decades, Tess resolves to expose the people who ran the trafficking network that trapped her. A personal tragedy from Tess's past fuels her determination, and the threats she faces this time are more serious than any she has encountered before.

Her hunt for the ringleaders takes her well beyond home, through the cities and back alleys of Ukraine, Crimea and Great Britain. Along the way she works with a Ukrainian revolutionary, a detective with London's Metropolitan Police and a leader of an international group devoted to freeing people from the sex trade. Together they reveal how far the operation reaches, and Tess is pushed to the edge of what she can survive.