My first novel was a thriller/suspense/mystery/crime/serial killer novel – Hunting Mariah, published in 2014. It was my debut writing for 18+ after writing several books for children.
Once you begin this book you won’t be able to put it down! Forget the laundry, dinner, housework because you won’t be able to do anything until you finish this book!
I remember the shock of my readers when they read this book after many of my children’s books. They could not believe that I had written something like this. It is not a children’s book, that’s for sure.
This story came to me before my daughter went into college. A local college reported that there was a rape on campus. College officials were warning students not to walk alone day or night and be aware of their surroundings. My son was in college at that time and also warned his sister to be careful for he would not be in college to watch over her once she entered.
As with most of my stories, this one came to be in a dream after hearing about this rape. I was forced to write this story in order to get the killer out of my head. He was quite persistent that I share his story.
Of course, I didn’t have to worry about my daughter, for she was safe and no more of these frightening things were reported at local campuses, thank God.
This was a difficult story to write after writing sweet, innocent stories for children. I didn’t know if I could complete this book but I did. It received many rave reviews and requests for a sequel which I wrote in 2018. It took me that long to make up my mind to continue to pick up where I left off with this horrendous character. Once I began the second book, the killer was back in my dreams and pushing me to write once again. It was pretty scary. Needless to say, I was relieved when the second book was completed and I could get him out of my head once and for all. He never returned. Phew!
The covers were created by my husband, John, using my niece, Laura, who graciously offered to provide us with photos of her lovely face. She is as sweet as well as beautiful! She is a former Miss NH.
Here are the two book trailers created for these books.
Here are what readers are saying about this two-part series.
I have written 46 books at this writing with more coming this year and beyond but none have affected me so profoundly like this series. I am thinking about possibly starting another series using Mariah but this is on the back burner – way back. It may never come to fruition though. I am fearful that another strange and dangerous character may come forward to claim his story. Yikes!
I may be better off sticking with the kid’s books and MG/PT/YA genre. It is quite exhausting working with the characters that invade my sleep in the form of nightmares.
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