Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one coming out, Angel of Love, is how she finds her way out of her sister's shadow and into herself. That's really what those two novels are based on.

I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.

On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.

In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.