ALISSA YARBROUGH

I'll be honest, my audio skills aren't that great. If I want to learn something, I'll need to see it in print to fully consider and understand the subject. This is the exact opposite of some of my siblings who thrive on audio.

University artifacts? Provenance papers? The originality in setting instantly set this book off from the usual suspense novels as I was deciding on a Colleen Coble book to try.

A shudder ran through the walls, and the beams in the ceiling creaked at the savage wind pummeling the corners of the small, wood-framed farmhouse. Sadie swept aside the mulberry curtains and cast an anxious eye at the angry clouds twisting and assuming a pale green hue. She still clung to the anonymous note she'd received that morning. It had been specific in its instruction that she come here, but could its author have foreseen the tempestuous weather? Had they planned for

As a young lass, I can remember a Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl poster filling up the expanse of my sister’s wall, with every action in the room being performed under the perpetually sleepless eyes of Jack Sparrow, Will, and Elizabeth...

Daylight may be failing in this latter part of the year, however, I’m still burning the proverbial midnight oil in scratching my head, learning, and forever recalibrating my path-to-publishing with new information. But here's where you can help...