Gracie's Last Smile

A night at the opera in Budapest becomes a nightmare for America's first woman president, Eleanor McCourter: Gracie, her teenage daughter, is missing. Izabella Benczur, a young FBI agent, is on the case. A former kidnap victim herself, Izabella finds that her efforts to track down the criminal who abducted Gracie are blocked by CW, a special agent, who demeans Izabella and mocks her boss. When Izabella makes a big break in the case, the kidnapper promises to return the teen. But can Izabella trust him to come through? Why did he abduct Gracie in the first place? Can Izabella expose the kidnapper without exposing her own secret background? And why does CW seem to be thwarting her every move? Apparently not every American is happy to have a female president...

Gracie's Last Smile is really two skillfully interwoven stories that function on two different levels. Readers will be swept up in the complex web of political intrigue surrounding Gracie's disappearance in exotic Budapest. In addition, the human drama of a young girl facing a life of forced depravity will move you deeply.