Allison Moore with Nancy WoodruffTouchstone
Hardcover (on sale 4/22/14)
From the publisher's website:
As a beautiful, ambitious, and fearless young woman, Allison Moore had everything going for her. She had been the star student of her recruit class, was quickly promoted to vice cop at the Maui Police Department, and gained the respect of her colleagues and a stellar reputation. Her Future couldn't have been brighter. But when a doomed love affair with another cop led Allison to seek escape in crystal meth, she suddenly found her whole life turned around.
Using her position of authority and skill of manipulation, Allison hid her addiction to methamphetamines from her lover and her department for as long as possible. She fabricated an elaborate story that she had ovarian cancer and needed to seek treatment on the mainland, while actually escaping to get a steady supply of meth through a brutal Seattle drug dealer. Allison's friends and colleagues donated their sick leave to her and organized fundraisers for her fictitious cancer treatment. Meanwhile, Allison's dependence on meth put her at the mercy of a ruthless drug lord, who made her a virtual prisoner in his house, beating, raping, and torturing her repeatedly.
Allison was able to escape with the help of her mother, but just as the nightmare seemed to be fading and she got sober in rehab, she was extradited to Maui to face twenty-five felony charges filed by her own department. After a trial, she was sentenced to and served one year in the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu.
Asounding, gripping, and told firsthand in a deeply sympathetic voice, Shards spares no detail of Allison's horrific experiences and the web of addiction and betrayal that cost her everything -- a career she loved, the colleagues who adored her, and the island that was once her paradise.
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Allison Moore is a former narcotics officer with the Maui Police Department. A native of New Mexico, she served a one-year sentence in the Federal Corrections Center in Oahu for drug-related felonies. She is currently attempting to make amends to all those she has hurt and find her way back to life.
Nancy Woodruff received her MFA from Columbia University, and she has taught writing at Columbia, Purchase College, Richmond, the American International University in London, and New York University. She is author of two novels, My Wife's Affair and Someone Else's Child. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband, sons, and daughter.
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