What is the point of serial fiction? Why would anyone want to read a story that way? If that's where you're at, I've got you. I totally understand. I love the immersive nature and seamless reading experience of reading a book. But I've learned that there are some important distinctions between serial fiction and reading a story in book form.

If you'd asked me a year ago, I would have told you this book would never exist. Now it's up for preorder with a stunning cover that hints at

Summer is fire season in much of the western United States, especially in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, my newest small town mystery features a rural logging town trapped under the threat of surrounding wildfires (we call them "forest fires" in the PNW).