Shady Cross

In one hand, small-time crook Stokes holds a backpack stuffed with someone elses moneythree 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 doesnt know asks, Daddy? Are you coming to get me? They say if you give them money theyll 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.