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I love talking about all types of fiction: mystery, suspense, thrillers, crime, and even horror. I'm also a history nut and have researched everything from Ancient Britain to the gaslit Victorian era as well as the fabulous Roaring Twenties so I'm happy to talk research strategies. I've written in many genres from sci-fi to psychological suspense to historical crime. I don't believe writers should pigeonhole themselves into a genre. If they have a great idea, I say go for it! So I'm fascinated to know what keeps readers turning the page and what makes a story come alive for them. I also love talking to aspiring writers about the writing process and the whole business of creating a novel and sending it out into the world.
My greatest reward as a writer is hearing from readers who've enjoyed my books. I love the Q and A part of presentations I've made and I thoroughly enjoy attending book clubs and listening to the fascinating reader opinions and insights. The writer-reader connection makes the whole process worthwhile.
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When Ruby Carlson was eighteen, she ran away from her home in Stoneybrook, Montana, and vowed she’d never return. Never return to life under the control of her manipulative mother, Ida, a self-styled medium and psychic scammer who made a career out of ruining people’s lives. Never return to the small town where enemies lurk at every turn.
But now, twenty years later, Ruby is back. Her mother is missing, presumed dead, and Ruby reluctantly returns to a home filled with chilling memories to settle Ida’s affairs. Did she really commit suicide by drowning, or is this another dark scheme? Ruby thought she knew everything about her mother, but finds herself unraveling a web of lies and secrets to reveal a story more twisted than anyone could have imagined...
Five years ago, my little boy went missing. Now my husband’s vanished, too.
I wish I could say that the tragedy of little Jack disappearing brought me and Nate closer together. But my husband is more distant from me now than he’s ever been. Perhaps that’s why I don’t ask him exactly where he’s going when he sets off on another business trip.
The first day Nate’s away, things feel okay, even though I know when he returns we’re going to have to discuss what I found in his coat pocket. But one day turns into two, and then three. I don’t want to seem like the crazy wife, but I have to call his work and ask what’s going on. And that’s when they tell me the shocking truth. Nate hasn’t worked for the company in six months.
Once I’ve found this lie, it’s hard not to pick at the scab of our marriage, see what other secrets lie beneath his apparent love for me. By the end of the week, I hope I might finally learn the truth about my husband, about the woman across the street, and about what really happened to my little boy.
The truth always comes out…
I want to tell my husband, Guy, everything about my past. Honestly, I do. He’s been so wonderful, providing me with a life of comfort and love a world away from the dark life I had before.
He deserves the truth.But if he finds out who I really am, the perfect life I’ve built will come crashing down around my ears. And that can’t happen. Not yet. Not until I reveal the truth about what happened to my little sister.
