KT RISING: Privilege is a Prison (Chronicling a Family's Lives)

"Got u in my crosshairs. Wach ur back." Only days after assisting in the apprehension of the college boy who caused the death of her best friend, KT Cantori receives this threatening message on her cell phone. Is it just a meaningless threat from one of the felon's friends? Or, could it be something more sinister, and deadly? The police are powerless to find the sender. There is no way they can offer her guaranteed protection. KT hides away through the intercession of a sympathetic policewoman. In her new environment, she is exposed to a world of struggle and hard-scrabble existence from which her privileged life has previously sheltered her. KT finds strength to grow and become a proponent for change and justice. The inspirations provided by her great-great grandmother's diary and the dedication of a young policeman whose apartment she shares lead her along her way. KT emerges with a sense of purpose and identity she had lacked in her life as a happy-go-lucky, partying college undergrad.