Predator And Prey

                                                                

Prolific author Gail Giles has written a gripping suspense novel that vividly illustrates the twisted relationship between predator and prey. Ames Ford is fifteen years old, and up until this time she has led a sheltered, yet comfortable life with lots of material advantages. All of this ends abruptly when her father is brought up on embezzlement charges, loses his job, and the family is forced to move to new neighborhood, and adjust to some uncomfortable life changes. Drowning in an unfamiliar environment, and feeling isolated from her family which is coming apart at the seams, Ames begins to act out in self-destructive ways and falls in  love with the wrong person. Marc is twenty-two years old, constantly in trouble with the law, possessive, and loves guns. Recognizing and taking advantage of Ames' neediness and vulnerability, he convinces her to participate in a plot to kill her own parents so they can always be together. In Dark Song Gail Giles forces us to realize that there is a hidden darkness in all of us, and it only takes the right combination of elements for it to explode.