Like one of my protagonists, I have an MBA from Harvard Business School and a background in finance. I will forever love finance – a complex, elegant discipline full of conflict, suspense, massive highs and lows. But something was missing from my life. Namely, I wanted to write, just like my childhood idols: Shirley Conran, V.C. Andrews, Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins, Belva Plain, Barbara Taylor Bradford. Their books got me through many hard times a kid. As a teen. Here were heroines who devoured life, never compromised, went through hell, refused to give up. As I got older, I started reading the great thriller writers. Ludlum, Clancy, Grisham, Koontz, Patterson.

It seems it all melded together, because today I write woman-centric thrillers. My protagonists have their feet on the ground and their eyes on the prize. They know just enough to be dangerous and run just fast enough to stay alive. For now.