The Devil's Stepdaughter
Julia KellerBell Elkins, prosecuting attorney and small-town heroine of Pulitzer-Prize winning Julia Keller's A Killing in the Hills and Bitter River, returns as a young girl in an exclusive digital short.
Orphaned at eleven years old, Bell Elkins is immediately put into the foster-care system in Raythune County and shipped to Herb and Lois McCluskey's dusty trailer in a forgotten corner of town.
Bell gets on fine with the members of her foster family. With one exception. Crystal is different. And she soon sets her sights on ruining what is left of young Belfa's life.
When the body of an old woman is found near the place she now calls home, Bell suspects Crystal knows more than she is letting on. But what she doesn't know is how far Crystal will go to keep Bell out of her family...