The holidays are over, kids are back in school, and I’m back to writing. A departure from my first book, a cozy Christmas mystery with kooky characters, my current project, THE DARK HOUR, is a darker suspense novel that deals with the sad reality of untreated mental illness and the lengths humanity will go to in order to protect themselves.
After an extensive edit, I’m currently rewriting the entire manuscript, keeping the parts I love, and rewriting characters as needed. I’m working hard to get it as polished as I can before it goes back to the editor, then to the book designer.
Below is a draft of the blurb that will be on the back cover. I hope it will help you look forward to its release!
THE DARK HOUR
Life has taught Tessa James two things: no one can be trusted and monsters are real. As a child, Tessa played the role of watchdog for her paranoid mother, who taught her that monsters lurked around every corner. It’s a lesson she wants to unlearn, but when she witnesses a brutal crime she realizes that monsters do, in fact, exist. The dead, beady eyes that locked onto hers as the killer disposed of the body made her sure of that.
Fearing the police won’t be able to solve the case, and certain the killer saw her, Tessa knows she’s in danger. Soon, though, Tessa fears that the only monster she needs to be afraid of lives in her own head. Desperate to not turn out like her mother, Tessa seeks the help of a psychologist who assures her she isn’t facing a life of paranoia and mental illness.
Willing to risk her own life to find justice for the murdered woman- and to prove she isn’t like her mother- Tessa digs until she finds the answers she’s looking for, and finds herself completely at the killer’s mercy with no way to escape.