Dark Fences: A prequel novella in The Vickie Chronicles series
What if one act of rebellion could cost you everything? And the only person on your side is your uncle, a man sworn to follow rules and uphold the law.
When fifteen-year-old Vickie Bartolucci, Italian-Korean, tough, resourceful, and fiercely loyal is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, the judge, unable to see beyond Vickie?s troubled past, confines her to Maine?s volatile Juvenile Hall. But once inside, the lines between right and wrong blur when a young boy named Ollie disappears from the facility and, without his medication, only has hours left to live.
Working on the outside, Vickie?s police officer uncle helps her dive deep into the shadows of the detention center to expose a cover-your-ass warden, a duplicitous guard, and fellow inmates wrapped in a web of secrets and deceit. With every clue they unravel, Vickie?s life and future teeter on a razor?s edge, until she learns that in a place where corrupt adults reign, the only way to survive is to learn the rules, then?break them.
