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Eve Moran has always wanted 'things' and has proven both inventive and tenacious in both getting and keeping them - she lies, steals, cheats and swindles, paying little heed to the cost of her actions on those who love her. When Eve kills a man she picks up in a shoe repair shop, she persuades her twelve year-old daughter, Christine, to confess to the crime. The girl, compelled by love, dependency and circumstance, is caught up in her mother's deceptions and find herself drawn to her new role. It's only when Christine's three year-old brother, Ryan, is drawn into her mother's deceptions, that she finds the courage and means to bring an end to Eve's tyranny. Set in 1970s Philadelphia and packaged to match, Concrete Angel pits a vindictive and manipulative mother against a daughter with just enough of her mother's immorality to fight back.
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Patricia Abbott is the author of more than one hundred stories that have been published in various literary and crime fiction publications. She has published two collections and edited an anthology. Several of her stories have been collected in best-of-year anthologies.