Child in the Dark: An Ellen Parker Novel

In the spring of 2016, someone kidnapped the young step-daughter of John Allen Douglas, a very dangerous figure in the Philadelphia criminal world. Is this the opening move in a gang war, one designed to distract Douglas from his business, or is it something more personal?Ellen is drawn into the hunt for the child when Robert Blasingame reappears in her life. As Blasingame and Tyrone Rydell, a young veteran with a knack for computers, follow the kidnappers’ trail from a dead man’s home, Ellen works her reporter contacts and friends trying to find any clues that could aid them. With little to go on, and running out of time, Ellen, Blasingame, and Tyrone go into the dark Pennsylvania night to save a child.