Shattered Glass: The Starling - This Thing of Ours, #1

Grace-Anne Colby never imagined moving from the family farm to New York City in pursuit of a journalism career would land her in a brothel, caught between two rival mafia families. When she discovers one don trafficking children, she knows she must act, especially when she nearly shared the same fate. The first in the This Thing of Ours series, Shattered Glass: The Starling blends the lines between crime thriller, drama, and romance, with a focus on representing the era of the 1930's as it was.
This series contains themes of mafia violence, abuse, sexual assault, prostitution, human trafficking, and murder. Many outdated customs and conventions of the 1930's often removed from or modified in novels to reflect contemporary views are instead presented intact in this series. Reader discretion is advised.