Yesterday, I experienced the shock when research comes alive. One of my students shared with me that her cousin was a kidnapped girl on the border between the U.S. and Mexico, and they found her cut up and mutilated body in the desert. I literally gasped at the horror of it, and came face to face with my written story line. Unbelievable and heartbreaking.

To know more, read my new book Illegal, published by Aignos Publishing, LLC.