PUDDLE OF SECRETS Paperback – March 30, 2026

A young woman escapes from all she has ever known to try and carve out a fresh start, somewhere, anywhere, but far away from Arizona. Haunted by abuse and a home devoid of love, she is desperate to leave it all behind. She travels, just she and her dog, without a map or route in mind, with hope as her only destination.She stumbles into new people, a new area of the country, and finds unexpected joy and relief. Her once-rigid independence and stubbornness are slowly chipped away, exposing a thoughtful, careful, curious and hopeful young woman. Unbeknownst to her, a shadowy stalker has chosen her as his next victim, threatening to destroy her newly found peace.And what would any similar story be without the emergence of feelings for another human being, something she would have bet against, considering her past experiences.A brutally raw, sordid but honest story of sexual abuse, recovery, redemption, reincarnation and reinvention, of crime and citizen involvement, of troubled pasts and hopeful futures. It is a rough read in terms of exposing the thought process of a serial predator and killer, a book not for the squeamish. But it's as open and thorough in telling the story of survival in a world of hate and prejudice as one could find in emboldening this young woman, and in many ways the story spills into real life today. Read more