When Allison Jensen was six, she and her best friend were playing in the woods near home. One moment her friend was beside her; then she was gone. When no leads emerged, she was given up for dead. Now, years later, trying to fill in the gaps of a patchwork memory, to make sense of the senseless, Allison still can get no answers from the Mormon community in which she lives. Why is she being fed half-truths? Why is her father able to tyrannize and torment as the self-appointed messenger of God? When a brutal attack on her as a young adult makes her desperate to escape Mormon bonds, Allison finds herself on a collision course with community leaders as they cover up the steps of a sexual predator. She must stop them before they find her and keep her from piecing together the tragic past that has haunted her life.
I have eight published books, several others in various stages of publishing, and am currently working on my next one... or two... or three.
The next one out will be TIES THAT BIND, from St. Martin's Press. Set firmly in the closed Mormon world, it promises a twisting plot and a surprise ending.
I have dabbled in both dark suspense and cozy mysteries, and am happy to be able to work in both genres.
I have also written for Penguin Putnam, Thompson Gale and BPP. I do not have a thing for the word "Sister." I promise. A lot of my titles just kind of turned out that way. Maybe it's branding, and maybe it's eccentricity.
Or both.
Visit my Web site at:
http://www.nataliercollins.com
