January 5, 2021
Collision Post Two
Welcome to Day Two of Collision!
Week 1, Day 2 – Collision
Genre: New Adult Mystery/Romance
Release Date: April 28, 2014 AND June 10, 2014
Cover Design: Etopia Press AND Kate L. Mary
Formats: ebook, audiobook, and paperback
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon Universal
Audible
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Some secrets are better left untold…
When eighteen-year-old Kara Jones gets into a car accident on the way home from college, she’s left with more than a few bruised ribs, a busted cell phone, and a totaled car. After a slip-up at the hospital, she’s shaken to discover that her family isn’t all it seems. And now her mother’s strange behavior and willingness to do anything to protect her secrets—including pulling Kara out of school—have Kara floundering in the dark.
Enter Derek Miller, a former classmate who’s dealing with family issues of his own. His nerdy charm is too much for Kara to resist, and she’s even more amazed when he agrees to help her dig into her mother’s past. Together they investigate her mother’s old friends and boyfriends, hoping to discover who Kara really is. Instead, they find disturbing connections to the dark history of Kent State University, and an ever expanding maze of mystery surrounding Kara’s birth.
As Kara and Derek chase secrets, she realizes he’s the only person she can trust. But as they get closer to the truth, the disturbing answers reveal a web of evil far darker and further reaching than they’d imagined, leaving Kara to wish she’d never asked the questions in the first place.
Where did you get the idea for Collision?
Like I said, I was living in Fairfield, CA in 2013 while my husband was stationed at Travis AFB and I was alone A LOT of the time. With four little kids – in 2013 they were: eight, six, three, and two – and a pilot husband who was gone most of the time (over 200 days one of those years), and I had so much free time that even with reading nearly a book a day, I could still binge watch pretty much every television show available in those early days of being able to stream. It was during this time that I started watching a new show called The Following, which starred Kevin Bacon. I honestly think I probably started watching it just because he was the star. I mean, Tremors is one of my favorite movies!
Anyway, the show was about a former FBI agent trying to find a recently escaped serial killer who he’d been responsible for putting away ten years earlier. What piqued my interest most about this show, however, was the serial killer’s son and the fact that he had NO idea his father was this infamous murderer. It got me thinking about how a person might react to that kind of bombshell, and had me reading about real life serial killers. Once I discovered that Ted Bundy actually had a daughter somewhere – who was conceived while he was in prison on death row – my mind just went crazy and the idea for this story was born. After that I actually stopped watching the show because I didn’t want anything in it to influence my own story.
Side note: I read so much about serial killers around this time that I wouldn’t be surprised if I got flagged due to my browsing history!
