Grace Period

The high life of a hedge fund attorney was not on Grace Locke’s radar back when she was eating ramen and defending the guilty, but only fools turn down second chances, especially those that come with lots of zeros attached. When Grace rekindles her romance with her ex-husband, Manny, he introduces her to his childhood friend and hedge fund king Ricky Bustamante. Soon, Grace signs on as Millennium Capital’s new General Counsel and in no time, she’s living in a mansion, flying private jets to Europe and the Caribbean, and staying in five star hotels. Why not? She’s paid her dues. Now it’s time to reap the benefits of her Ivy League education and to leave the past where it belongs—in the past.

Maybe it’s the happy haze of romance or the lure of a life of luxury, but Grace soon forgets the fundamental fact she learned in the fog of war—nothing lasts forever—nothing good anyway. So, the first cryptic warning about her new life, she ignores. The second one, too. Words are just that—words—until one sunny day when those words become actions. When the good life turns bad, then deadly, the former soldier is left with no choice but to do what she knows best—fight like hell to save herself and those she loves.

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Grace Period is an outstanding novel. A bracing thriller that veers from the street-level drug trade to the deadly sins of high finance. But its ambitions are bolder and bigger. Mandy Miller has created a vivid portrait of love and loss and surviving the wreckage. She has given us something special in the relentless, if bruised, character of Grace Locke.

—Jeffrey Fleishman, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Good Night, Forever; My Detective; and The Last Dance

Grace Period is an unflinching and impassioned novel about corruption writ large, about dirty money in the hands of the filthy rich, about a netherworld where no one is safe, and no one is innocent. Mandy Miller is at the top of her writing game here as defense attorney for the destitute, Grace Locke, gets caught up in the world of international money laundering, art forgery, shell companies, and murder. Just when you think the plot can’t take one more twist, the story turns in a strange new direction.

—John Dufresne, author of New York Times Notable Books of the Year Louisiana Power and Light and Love Warps the Mind A Little; Storyville; The Lie That Tells the Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction; and I Don’t Like Where This is Going

Grace Period

Praise for Grace Period

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