A Woman of Valor

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Rookie cop Valorie Dawes fights racism and sexism in her hometown police department as she pursues a savage sex offender - and confronts her own #metoo past.

 

For Valorie Dawes, #metoo means #fightback.

 

Rookie policewoman Valorie Dawes has a mission: take men like Richard Harkins, a serial child molester, off the streets of her small hometown of Clayton, CT—for good. Things start off well as Val's trusted senior partner and mentor, Gil, shows her the ropes and helps her survive the nastiness they encounter on the streets–and in the chauvinistic office politics at the precinct.

Despite Gil's support, Val becomes increasingly isolated within the department and vilified in the public eye as reckless and incompetent. In response, she devotes all of her time and energy to chasing Harkins, but he proves to be both elusive and cruel, continuing to victimize young girls and pressing his threats closer and closer to Val's own inner circle.

Can Valorie overcome the trauma she suffered as a child and stop Harkins from hurting others like her—or will her bottled-up anger lead her to take reckless risks that put the people she loves in greater danger?

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About the author

Gary Corbin

Gary Corbin spent too many years in college at Louisiana State and Indiana University, largely to escape the fate of having to become a part-time logger, farmer, and construction worker like so many membersof his immense family.

After growing up in a small town on the east coast, in a three-bedroom house shared with eight siblings, two strict parents and a dog, he escaped again to the Pacific Northwest, where he is once again surrounded by loggers, farmers, construction workers, and a dog.

Rather than respond with murderous rages, he now escapes by writing murder mystery novels about families of loggers, farmers, and construction workers who have strict parents and a dog.

A homebrewer and coffee roaster, Gary loves to ski, cook, and watch his beloved Red Sox, Patriots, and LSU Tigers win championships. And when they lose, he escapes to the Oregon coast with his sweetheart.