Mallory is the protagonist of my current novella.

No spoilers, but she is a twenty-something-year-old prostitute with an addiction and a thing for tarot.

Mallory is a loner with no illusions that she can overcome her addiction. She just wants to survive and get on with her life near Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She’s recently moved from being homeless on the streets into an apartment, but this comes at a price. Along the way, she meets an old high school acquaintance who wants to help her with her demons and track down the one who set her on this path.