The Six Days Before

Elizabeth needs work, a bed and one address that will hold. For six days she moves through boarding houses, hotel corridors and employment offices, measuring every promise against the man making it.

History keeps the corpse and the newspaper name, the Black Dahlia. This novel keeps the camera on Elizabeth before the headline. She is alive, desiring, frightened, funny and still making choices no murderer has yet taken from her.

The result is not a case file built around a famous death. It is a close account of a woman still trying to decide where she will sleep, whom she can trust and what she is willing to risk.