Title: The last good night
First published: 1997
Description: Laura Barrett has it all - fame and success as coanchor of the national evening news, a charming husband, and a beautiful baby daughter. But it is all about to end. One night, a man approaches her outside the network studio and calls her "Marta." And in that instant, Laura knows that her last good night is over and what she's feared for so long has finally arrived.

Marta. A precocious teenager who did something terrible one night in a run-down Florida motel. It is an act that will haunt her no matter how far she runs, how different she looks, or how successful she becomes. For twenty-one years, Laura has been trying to erase Marta from her memory. Now a man from her past is confronting her, demanding answers. At first, Laura believes she can control the situation, despite the mounting threats. But suddenly, she's facing every mother's nightmare.

Laura will have to risk her marriage, her career, her life, to save her baby. And finally face what happened that night so long ago...
Subjects: Fiction, Television news anchors, Mothers, Kidnapping, Extortion, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense
Places: New York (N.Y.), New York (State), New York