Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.

I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.