Delores Rose

730 Delores Rose

Officer Trina Rhodes is a married civil service worker who works in one of the most dangerous penitentiaries in the world. While working in solitary confinement, a location in the prison where inmates are housed for twenty-three hours a day, with only one hour of recreation out their cells. She meets Inmate Tyquan Swell; convicted for armed robbery. He is defiant, suicidal, harmful, and manipulative.

Trina, a behavioral science major who studies criminals became a little too interpersonal with Swell while trying to save him from his suicide attempts. She is battling her addiction. An addiction she had been getting treatment for. Many of her colleagues express their concern about her and inmate swell.

Those concerns fall on deaf ears.




She sought out treatment from an old childhood friend who happens to be a psychiatrist. During her psychotherapy sessions, a secret had been revealed to him. Her uncontrollable thoughts and impulse behavior land her in a place she never thought she would be. How far is she willing to go? Is she ready to risk everything she worked so hard for, her marriage, her career, and her family?

The book entitled '730' comes from CPL Article 730.20 an order for the examination of a defendant to determine whether he or she is fit to stand trial. If a person is said to be mentally incapacitated, then he will be sentenced to a mental health facility rather than prison.