Who is Christine Marlow?

Christine of course is me, well sort of. I 'see' the story line through her eyes as most fiction writers will do although each character I am working on, I also become them. You have to feel what they are feeling and see what they are seeing in order to make your character real to the reader. Hopefully the reader connects with one of the characters and 'becomes' that character as they read the story, bringing them into the adventure!

Christine Marlow is an award-winning photographer who works for a large company in San Diego that caters to all the major magazines. She is single and very independent and frankly she just hasn't had time for dating since she travels the world going on assignment with her two male associates, also photographers. Together they make a great team; strong and adventurous. They help keep each other out of trouble in foreign countries but most of all they have a great work relationship together.

She likes old cars, old homes and the nostalgia that goes along with them. When she decides to finally take a vacation after 11 years of working for the company, she chooses a place full of nostalgia in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas. There she meets a young man who changes her life as well as finds himself having a life changing experience with her as well. Together they build a quick and strong relationship.

When she starts getting strange gifts from someone she doesn't know, she feels scared but challenged. Her fierceness and independence try to overcome the fear but then she finds herself dealing with something completely new to her; precognitive dreams and vivid visions that warn her of horrors she is not prepared to deal with! She then finds herself having to lean on her new friends for support and help; something she is not very good at.

Personally, I have had such dreams and visions. Not quite as horrific as Christine's but precognitive nonetheless. The Deadly Dreams books are developed from dreams I have written in my journals and the dreams in the first book are actual dreams, verbatim, that I have had during the writing of 'Burning Desires'!