SUSAN REEDY is a painter living in the San Francisco Bay area. She joined the Emeryville Police Department to become a forensic artist. In 1991, she interviewed a teenage boy who was arrested for prostitution. The department discovered that he had been kidnapped from his family. He was drugged and illegally transported from New York to California, where he was forced into an underground world of child pornography. ONE MONTH IN HELL was inspired by his tragic experience. Susan will donate profits from ONE MONTH IN HELL to a charitable organization that has served San Francisco's homeless and runaway children for more than twenty years. Larkin Street Youth Services is nationally recognized for the innovative care they provide, but state funding has been so drastically reduced that they are in danger of closing their doors. SUSAN REEDY continues to advocate awareness about the trafficking of human lives. She has worked with the FBI, Interpol, the Department of Justice and local law enforcement agencies to research this book. ONE MONTH IN HELL is her first novel.