Carla Damron, social worker and award-winning novelist, will share from her newest crime fiction novel, The Orchid Tattoo (2023) which delves into the Disturbing World of Human Trafficking.
About “The Orchid Tattoo”
Crime fiction that makes a difference: in The Orchid Tattoo, award-winning author Carla Damron delves into the disturbing world of human trafficking. Social worker Georgia Thayer can balance her own mental illness with the demands of an impossible job. Mostly. But when her sister vanishes in the dead of night, her desperate quest to find Peyton takes her into the tentacles of a human trafficking network-where she encounters a young victim called "Kitten."Kitten is determined to escape. She won't be trapped like the others. She won't sell her soul like Lillian, victim-turned-madam, feeding the dark appetites of international business moguls and government leaders. But the Estate won't let her out of its lethal grip, and her attempts at freedom threaten her very life.Aided by Kitten and, at times, by the voices in her head, Georgia maneuvers to bring down the kingpin of Estate and expose its dark secrets, but her efforts place her-and the few people she allows to get close-in grave danger. Buy The Orchid Tattoo
About the Author
South Carolinian Carla Damron is a fiction writer and social worker. Her latest novel, THE ORCHID TATTOO, crime fiction about human trafficking, won the winter PenCraft award for literary excellence, 2023. She's also the author of THE STONE NECKLACE, which won the WFWA Star Award for best novel.
Damron also authors the Caleb Knowles mystery novels, including Keeping Silent, Spider Blue, and Death in Zooville. In each, she explores social issues like addiction, homelessness, and mental illness. Her short stories have appeared in Fall Lines, Six Minute Magazine, Melusine, In Posse Review, and other journals.
In 2014, she was named the South Carolina Social Worker of the Year, and in May, 2017, she was awarded the Pioneer Award by the University of South Carolina College of Social Work for her advocacy on the state and national level.
Damron holds a Master in Social Work (USC) and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Queens University.
