Sheila McGraw – författare

Succesful illustrator, Julia Green, believes she''s living the American dream in suburban Houston until she begins having sleepwalking nightmares featuring her husband, Austin, as a knife thrower with scantily clad Julia strapped to his target.

And Austin''s aim is regrettably poor. 

Julia paints scenes from her dreams, and in analyzing them, realizes that what her friend, Trix, said is true, that ''she doesn''t see what is right in front of her''. Soon, as Julia questions her lifestyle and state of mind, her observations light the wick on an explosive cache of suspicions and repressed secrets.

When an unexpected tragedy occurs, Julia becomes the focus of the media and police, and she must cast off her submissive persona, find inner strength, and navigate treacherous waters to her long-overdue awakening.

Can there ever be too much love or too much pie? In this sweet and boisterous story, whenever the narrator says ''I love you'' somewhere a baker bakes some pies.

As the pies accumulate, the children''s hands and faces are always sticky, and all their clothes have berry stains, while outdoors, kids who once got stuck in the mud now get stuck in the pies!

Finally, when pies are heaped as high as the moon, and everyone is on pie-overload, something''s got to give, and a satisfying compromise brings the story to a happy and loving resolution.

A devastating hurricane.

A frantic search for a missing friend.

A brutal double murder...

As an apartment-complex manager and a part-time artists'' model, Marilyn''s ho-hum but comfortable life is devastated by the hurricane that strips away her job, car, and home, and drives friends far from the city. Arriving at her friend, Fran''s dry apartment, Fran turns out to be missing. As Marilyn searches for her friend she stumbles upon a murder scene and is forced to go on the run from ruthless killers. Though she keeps a low profile, Marilyn can''t dodge a cast of sketchy characters that ooze into her orbit. There''s a crooked lawyer and his wealthy clients, an internet scammer, a pair of suspicious hipsters, and a serial killer targeting the artists at Marilyn''s life-drawing group. Throw a couple of good friends and a sexy and protective detective in the mix, and it''s not all bad.

Even so, Marilyn must question everyone around her and find the inner strength to discover and act upon her true character. It''s survival of the smartest and most resilient, and no more Miss Nice-Girl as the action moves full speed, and the twists and turns keep coming, and Marilyn must tackle the circumstances of her new, near-impossible normal.