Author: Lori Lacefield
ISBN: 9780977627684

What do you do when you are nominated to a very prestigious charitable foundation and you soon discover that the directors are quite creative and innovative when raising funds, although their methods are not exactly within the boundaries of the law and nothing is quite what it seems?

In The Seventh Survivor, Lori Lacefield constructs a kind of socially oriented crime mystery. The Diamond Foundation comprises ten women directors who were chosen to become part of the group as a result of their being a victims of a vicious crime at sometime in their life. Among the group are those who are survivors of rape, abuse, assault, kidnapping, and attempted murder. Moreover, the link that ties them together is that their perpetrators for the most part have escaped punishment due to the injustices or inefficiencies of the legal system. The modus operandi of The Diamond Foundation is, as pointed out by the chairman of the foundation, Marjoram Swail,