Diamond: A Girl's Best Friend

About the Book

Erica Redfern is a high-school senior from a prominent California family, and the world is hers. But when her parents plan a second honeymoon in Paris and send Erica to Washington, DC, to stay with a grandmother she barely knows, the naïve seventeen-year old gets lured into a world of drug-trafficking, mob hits, sexual assault, and homicide.

Erica is shocked to find that Diamond looks and acts nothing like a typical grandmother and is the owner of a wildly popular radio station. Erica is motivated by her grandmother's accomplishments, but her life is derailed when she falls into a friendship with college sophomore Meagan Shanahan, the chauffeur's niece, who attempts to entrap Erica in a shady scheme only to become a victim herself.

Before long Erica is dating Justin Black, a known drug dealer, and falling deep into a criminal world far away from her elite life on the West Coast. When her parents are suddenly killed, Erica tries valiantly to maintain a sense of normalcy and finish her final year of high school, all the while tangled up with the seamier side of life in the nation's capital.

Diamond: A Girls' Best Friend is an intense tale of chance, luck, and survival with action, crime, and suspense.

About the Author

Dr. Brenda Savoy is employed by the Maryland State Department of Education and resides in Owings Mills, Maryland. This is her debut novel.