When life hands you a major setback, either personally or professionally, one of the only ways to survive is to put one foot in front of the other. Ana, in Deadly Little Secrets, has been hit with a nearly mortal blow to her confidence and her professional life. It makes her doubt her skills, her career choice, and even when she knows she did everything she could, she still doubts her support of the data she presented. She plays the "if only" game a great deal as she sits, contemplating cold cases.

However, her true nature is to move forward, so she does the best she can with the cold cases she's presented. So well, in fact, that she begins to unravel the pieces of the puzzle in the art fraud case so quickly that people begin to panic.

Have you ever had this situation, where everything you thought you know gets called into question? All of your paradigms are challenged. When this happened to me, personally, I guess part of that questioning let to the creation of Ana as a character. She asked the questions I asked, and felt the angst I felt.

I don't know if you've had that as well, but I think most of us have had situations where we questioned our skills or our choices. I hope you'll enjoy reading Deadly Little Secrets and following Ana's path to a new confidence and a new life. And if you liked Ana and Gates' story, I hope you'll find the next book in the series featuring Dav and Carrie, in next year's Deadly Little Lies.

Best,

Jeanne