title: Bound by Blood
author: Mackey, Maureen
description: Francie Steele is a single mother struggling to make a better life for herself and her 5-year-old daughter Savannah. Francie's whole world consists of providing for Savannah, going to college, and working two part time jobs, which doesn't leave time for anything else. What Francie doesn't know though, that her life is about to drastically change and not for the better.
  Returning home from dinner one night, she finds her apartment door open and her cousin Lisa on the floor dead. Francie has absolutely no idea why anyone would want to break into her small studio apartment, she has nothing of value, or at least that is what she thinks. The police and her friends tell her that Lisa must have interrupted a break-in but Francie doesn't believe it and the terror is only beginning for her.