Teenage Female: Expanded Edition

There's little more important in this world than knowing someone has your back.In the wake of her mother's murder, Elizabeth Harper fought hard against the pain the world gleefully hurls at those living in it. She fought hard against the innate darkness of human nature, vowing to keep her own light alive so that she may carry on in her mother's footsteps - a shining star of just goodness. "Teenage Female", the dramatic prelude to "Among The Dirt and Bones" (volume two of "the HARPER mysteries"), chronicles portions of Elizabeth's own youth as well as her mentoring of a fourteen-year-old girl named Robyn Ackerman; A young girl who lost everything before she could even understand the concept of loss. A young girl whose life could easily have been Elizabeth's. Robyn floated from foster home to foster home her entire life until she finally wound up at SeaGate, a group home for at-risk girls. But life at SeaGate is anything but grand, and Robyn -try as she might- is all alone and at the end of her rope. Elizabeth, on the other hand, had something Robyn never did; A steadfast support system. Something she was determined to provide for Robyn at all costs.