Oftentimes, the powerful want us to believe we don’t stand a chance against them. But we do. In my upcoming book, Padlocked, Agata was born in eastern Germany to a Jewish father and a Christian mother. When her mother dies in childbirth when she is only six years old,...

I’m often asked whether a particular character unintentionally becomes a scene-stealer or a much larger part of the book. This definitely happens, and in my upcoming book, Padlocked, it occurred in a big way. Rafe Cabrera was meant to be a minor character, an...

I received a call from a reviewer who read Padlocked. She told me that every page of the book demonstrated a tremendous amount of research. She considered herself an expert on World War II, and yet she learned things she’d never known. For example, she didn’t know...

Those who know me well know that I am a deeply spiritual person. And sometimes, God has different plans for me. When I finished with The Misremembered Lighthouse, I planned to return to another story. Instead, I dreamed an entire, highly complex book in one night in...