When a young girl drowns at a private New England high school, tough businesswoman Thea Kozak faces what may be her most tragic mystery yet. The death rocks the world of privileged academia, and Thea is called in to counsel the students and faculty and to reevaluate the school's questionable safety procedures. But when Thea discovers that the young victim was pregnant, all hell breaks loose. the deeper Thea digs, the more nasty secrets she finds--the type of nasty secrets that "perfect" people can't admit to.
And this time, the truth won't set anyone free....
Kate Flora is an accomplished attorney who has worked as an assistant attorney general in Maine, representing the Department of Human Services in child protection. She is a former president of the New England chapter of Sisters in Crime and is currently the national president of that organization. Liberty or Death is the sixth title in the Thea Kozak mystery series. She resides in Concord, Massachusetts.