You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

Who do you love? It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing. Who do you love?

It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?

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

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.