Dark Lady

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The setting is Steelton a struggling Midwestern town trying to save its decaying inner city by building a major league baseball stadium. Dark Lady introduces Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz who has escaped her alcoholic father & working class background to become head of the Prosecutors homicide unit. Her ambition is to become County Prosecutor. But this ambition indeed her very survival is threatened when her ex-lover Jack Kovak a drug lawyer is murdered & Stella leads the investigation. There are more deaths & revelations about Jack Kovaks dealings with the citys crime lord & a trail of wrong-doing that implicates officers in law enforcement possibly within her own office. As her inquiry draws her into a re-examination of her own complex past her certainty that she is being watched & followed leads her to fear for her own future.