She’s a witness. She may be lying. And he’s falling in love with her.
Detectives Jesse Aaron and Camille Farris have no leads in the murder of Rosa Logan when pretty blonde Sariah Brennan claims to have seen the killer—in a vision. Unfortunately the man she identifies is dead—or is he?
Sariah is an unsophisticated small town girl, but her background and her motives are mysterious. Jesse is increasingly convinced that she has guilty knowledge of the crime, even as he finds himself more and more attracted to her. Can he and Camille unravel the web of secrets before the killer strikes again?
Targeted Age Group:: Adult
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Two different subjects I had been considering fit together for the plot, but the real trigger came when a TV character asked a question, and I imagined what my answer would be. I gave that answer to Sariah, and the words began to flow.
How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
Sariah's character grew out of her answer to the trigger question. When I began to imagine who Jesse would be, I happened to see an attractive black man, and that became part of the character. I hadn’t intended it to be an interracial romance, but it gave me an opportunity to say something I had always wanted to say on the subject.
Book Sample
On the ride back to Vista Road silence prevailed. He didn’t know what she was thinking about. He didn’t even know what he was thinking about. Lights were on behind the closed curtains of the house. He parked short of the driveway, where the nearest streetlight filled the front seat with a dim glow.
"Thank you,” she said. “I enjoyed it, and I appreciate you keeping me up to date on the investigation.”
“Is that what I was doing?”
She gave him an enigmatic smile. She had said she found him attractive, but as a kind of conventional compliment. He wondered if she could be as attracted to him as he was to her. He thought yes, but there would be hell to pay if he was wrong—and even if he was right. She was a witness, a lying, maddening witness, and it was unprofessional to think of her in any other way, but something was happening between them. He studied the sensitive curve of her slightly parted lips. She had retouched her lipstick in Quique’s restroom, a bare hint of color.
He kissed her. Her mouth surprised him, soft and sweet and willing, almost hungry, but with something held back. She was scared, but she wanted this. They were not investigator and witness; they were two people trying to find their way to—what? He didn’t know.
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I was born and raised in San Diego, California and earned a BA in English from San Diego State University and an MLS from UCLA. I retired as fiction librarian for the San Diego Public Library in order to spend more time on my writing. In addition to the three R’s—reading, writing, and research—I enjoy Scrabble, movies, and travel.
My stories have been published in numerous journals, including Eclectica, The Binnacle, The Nassau Review, Orbis, and Thema Literary Journal, and in the anthologies Short Story America, Vol. 2, The Captive and the Dead, and Australia Burns. Guilty Knowledge is my third novel from The Wild Rose Press, following Seventeen Days in 2018 and The Rebound Effect in 2019.