I was mesmerized by her the moment we met. Like many before
me and everyone after, I fell under the spell of her blue, blue eyes. It would
not be until much later that I’d realize how dangerous that could be.
She’d go on to topple North America’s most notorious biker
gang, run circles around the media. Almost take down an entire police
department. Out-maneuver the Supreme Court of Canada. She was exceptionally wealthy.
Conniving. A genius. She was fourteen when I first met her. Katrina, the young
heroine of my BackTracker Series.
She came to me during the witching hour when I ought to have
been asleep but when troubles were keeping me awake. I saw her there, tiny and
trembling on an autumn ridge—her belly pressed to the ground, listening.
Watching. Below her in the valley, tattooed men in leather jackets with THE
TRAZ biker gang patch moved slowly
between rustic cabins and Harleys, M16’s slung across their backs, unaware that
off on the horizon a tactical team was moving in. However, she could see the police
vehicles careening into the compound, safely making it past the
perimeter sensors she’d surreptitiously disabled just hours before.
She was listening for the thud of the police chopper. She
was going to be rescued. Leave the gang life behind. Forget everything bad
that had ever happened to her. Except...
Except what? I had to
find out. I had to get out of bed, pop open my laptop and begin typing this story that
was unravelling in my mind. I had to.
As dangerous as Katrina was, as obsessed as I became with
her, as powerful as she was to prove—the most important thing to me about
Katrina is that she opened the door for me to fulfill my childhood dream.
Because of her, I became a published novelist.
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Website: http://www.eileenschuh.com
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Her story, her secrets, her desperation filled my cold and
lonely night times for months. It was her, who she’d been and what she might
become, that kept my fingers pounding the keyboard. It was her incredible tale
that forced me to eventually concede that she hadn’t dictated me THE TRAZ and
six sequels simply for my own benefit during that tough, very tough winter.
She made it clear that her story was meant to benefit the
world.
Known on the street only as Sarina, she’s Katrina Buckhold and
later on, under Witness Protection, she’s Constable Felicity Randal. She’s
powerful, manipulative, grieving, intelligent. She’s young, vulnerable, a
millionaire twice over. She’s stubborn and arrogant and abrasive. She’s alone.
She’s hurting.
She’s the main character in THE TRAZ, FATAL ERROR, and
FIREWALLS. She’d love to have you, too, helplessly
fall under her spell.
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