I'd never written a straight suspense novel before, but the idea came about after I had lived on a Wyoming mountaintop ranch in cattle country at 7,000 ft. A plot began to form while I was surrounded by barbed wire and locked gate some 40 miles from a mid-sized community as well as abundant wildlife.

I wasn't able to begin writing the novel until after I had escaped that situation. This somewhat shy Southern California native had experienced plenty of trauma, which I incorporated into my protagonist's life, with a reason to escape her unhappy marriage. So far, it wasn't much of a suspense plot until my imagination took root. 

What would happen, I wondered, if a young woman is able to escape her intolerable life, and finds herself on the run, tracked by her husband after she boards a bus for her native California? Discovering that she's followed and then taken into custody for questioning about her husband's death, she's also kidnapped by his partner's in crime. 

Thus was born my 23rd book: Girl on the Precipice, available in trade paperback and ebook forms at Amazon and other online bookstores.