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Daughter Of
The Blood
By
Nancy Holder
2
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
3
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Epilogue
4
Chapter 1
New York
The moon was a flickering, low-watt streetlamp threatening
to go out any second. Sirens roared in the New York City jungle
of burned-out tenements and rusted cars. Bottom-dwelling
predators—dealers, pimps, 'kickers and gangbangers glided
through the misery and poverty of the urban landscape
surrounded by snowdrifts, garbage and needles.
It was the last hour of third watch, the end of Izzy
DeMarco's very first shift as an NYPD rookie. She and her field
training officer, Patrolman Juan Torres, were escorting Sauvage,
a young goth from Brooklyn, to her boyfriend's place. The
building was not very nice, but at least the graffiti on the bricks
was random and crude, lacking the trademark tags claiming the
building for some gang. Gang territory was worse news than
basic low-rent squalor.
Sauvage had promised to stay here until the department
located Izzy's former coworker, Julius Esposito, and took him
into custody. Sauvage had witnessed Esposito, who had worked
with Izzy in the property room, shaking down a corner boy—a
street dealer—for money and contraband. She hadn't seen him
commit murder, but Esposito was also wanted in connection
with the possible homicide of Detective First Grade Jason
Attebury, also of the Two-Seven.
Detective Pat Kittrell—what should Izzy call him, her
lover? her boyfriend?—had argued that Izzy needed protective
custody of her own. Although he had no concrete evidence to
back up his case, Pat was sure Esposito was the shooter who had
taken aim at Izzy's father in a burning tenement fire—and
missed. If he wanted one DeMarco dead, he might want two. Pat
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