Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today.

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.