I'm just starting Find Her by Lisa Gardner, an author whose novels I enjoy but I've been picking them up at library book sales and thus I've been reading them way out of order. This is another D. D. Warren novel and it features a side character named Flora Dane who has prominent roles in several other novels that come after (and which I've already read), but this is apparently her "origin story" as it were. It's not a very pleasant origin story, either, as it starts out with her trapped in a wooden box by a creepy dude who picked her up and is now using her as his personal fetish...the squick factor's pretty high, but I (obviously) know she's going to end up alive and okay enough to appear in subsequent novels....
Johnathan