You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.
Whomever speaks first gives up some power.
Pain is not what you see and not what you feel. Pain is what you can only hear, alone in the dark.
I want to cry but I don’t. I don’t. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again.
The man was dying to please. George Harlow was a consultant, he informed Bobby as he hastily led
You can’t change the world, but you can improve a bit of it a little at a time.
Loving a child was humbling.
Harris Reed: Ah, you caught me.Bobby: And now's the part when I throw you back.
A parent’s approval always mattered, regardless of age—
Elementary school. I’d worked hard to find the apartment, hoping that a nice unit,
Warn a kid with oppositional defiant disorder not to do something, and you’ve pretty much guaranteed the crime.
Tuesday, 10:03 p.m. PST
I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where the...
Men may be violent, Officer Dodge, but let's face it-women are cruel...
I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.
After-school
We’re about to be overrun by an entire generation of juvenile psychopaths.
Irresponsible is only irresponsible if you fail. Succeed, however; and irresponsible quickly becomes merely unorthodox.