Erik A. Williams

Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.

Though the mother of the Mulberry children tries to keep her family away from the destruction and violence of street life, one by one, the children are all sucked in. When youngest daughter falls for a violent drug dealer, it's all the mother can do to hold her family together.