“She told herself, finally, that she must face it or die . . . But this was just a whisper in the self, that flutter within which starts as a tiny plea and fights to grow in strength and resonance. So, she stood by it and fought for it, but not before her life and her love took the losses redemption almost always exacts from the redeemed.” CrimeRevengeRedemption21st CenturyIntrigueFiction WritingCrime ThrillerThriller NovelConspiracy ThrillerMental Trauma Book:Until Morning Comes Source: Until Morning Comes
“It was a cooler morning than usual, but it was a welcomed difference. The many childhood summers she had spent on the French Riviera were now a simple memory, her younger adult years in the Caribbean now packed away into the past. The cooler New England temperatures helped to mitigate the heat of her present concerns.” CrimeRevengeRedemption21st CenturyIntrigueFiction WritingCrime ThrillerThriller NovelConspiracy ThrillerMental Trauma Book:Until Morning Comes Source: Until Morning Comes
“Valdivia had to hold back the familiar mixture of sadness, rage, and revulsion to keep herself from shouting at the world in front of her. Of course, she had seen bad things before. But now, violence against women was a particular anguish, and the pursuit of their killers had become a personal mission.” CrimeRevengeRedemption21st CenturyIntrigueFiction WritingCrime ThrillerThriller NovelConspiracy ThrillerMental Trauma Book:Until Morning Comes Source: Until Morning Comes
“Ava was almost twenty-six, on her own, in a decent and mostly stable relationship, eternally grateful to be away from Jeffrey Hoffman’s clutches. Hoffman had held her captive for just over four years until she escaped that life at eighteen. In the first few years of her escape, she’d had as much therapy as she could tolerate, preferring to get on with things.” CrimeRevengeRedemption21st CenturyIntrigueFiction WritingCrime ThrillerThriller NovelConspiracy ThrillerMental Trauma Book:Until Morning Comes Source: Until Morning Comes
“Sitting in the cruiser, staring through this memory, she wondered why it was so hard for a headstrong woman in this world, in this country—why she had to be so alone to be who she was, and not just Valdivia herself, but every woman who is a lone wolf on the slick, icy tundra.” CrimeRevengeRedemption21st CenturyIntrigueFiction WritingCrime ThrillerThriller NovelConspiracy ThrillerMental Trauma Book:Until Morning Comes Source: Until Morning Comes