Baby Grand

Baby Grand Trilogy (Book 1)

Baby Grand, Book One of the Baby Grand Trilogy

Baby Grand, Book One of the Baby Grand Trilogy

A curly-haired toddler. A down-on-her-luck writer. And the bad guys who brought them together.

In Albany, New York, the governor's infant daughter disappears without a trace from her crib at the Executive Mansion. Hours later, newly divorced and down-and-out writer Jamie Carter is abducted from the streets of Manhattan. Jamie is whisked upstate, where she is forced by her captor, Don Bailino, an ex-war hero/successful businessman, to care for the kidnapped child in a plot to delay the execution of mobster Gino Cataldi - the sixth man to be put to death in six years by hardliner Governor Phillip Grand. What prevails is a modern-day thriller about family ties, loyalty, murder, betrayal, and love that's told in deftly interweaving narratives that follow the police investigation of the missing Baby Grand, the bad guys who took her, and the woman who must find the strength to protect her.

✓ Runner-up, 2016 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition

✓ Honorable Mention, Genre Fiction, 21st Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards

✓ Self-e Selection, Library Journal

✓ Honorable Mention, Fiction - Thriller - General, 2018 Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards

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