Runaway — Emilie Richards

MEAN STREETS...

Librarian Krista Jensen was desperate to find her runaway sister, desperate enough to do anything-even pose as a teen prostitute and walk the New Orleans streets she'd heard Rosie was walking.

It was a dangerous life. The men who were willing to buy women's favors weren't known for their gentleness -- or their scruples. But Krista had a protector in Jess Cantrell, whose research into the problem of teen runaways was quickly taking on a personal dimension. He longed to help ail the girls he met-and to love the woman whose quest had become his own.