Black Market Princess

Denise Rutledge can't have a normal life. Uneducated and severely bipolar, her only hope of escaping a minimum wage existence is to become a key player in a multi-billion dollar industry where mobsters, ministers, nonprofit organizations, and Fortune 1000 executives strike secret deals that often prove deadly. As she navigates the dark and perilous distribution channels, Denise must outwit a host of enemies, including a spiteful actress turned serial killer and a Miami liquidator who thinks he's Scarface. Her objective...to establish her own charity and rescue astrophysicist Avery Johnson, the love of her life whom she shot prior to entering a psychiatric ward, from a bad marriage.Based on actual events associated with the real Black Market, Denise's adventures explain how a select group of misfits is rising up to become America's new upper class.