A Dark Love by Margaret Carroll

Only Caroline knows the truth about her world-renowned psychoanalyst husband, Dr. Porter Moross.

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My debut thriller has just been nominated for a national award from RWA®. A Dark Love (Avon - Sept. 2009) has been named a finalist in the Romantic Suspense category for a RITA® award from Romance Writers of America®. Winners will be announced at a gala awards ceremony on July 31st at RWA's national convention in Nashville. Time to dust off the ol' cowgirl boots (and borrow a St. John suit from a generous friend) and head down there.......

 A Dark Love opens on the day a young wife walks out of her Georgetown home and leaves her abusive, controlling husband to start life over in a fictional Colorado Rocky Mountain town. She immediately meets up with some good people there, including an ex pro-footballer who is ready to find love again. But her ex-husband's obsession with her has brought him to the brink of sanity. He vows he will find her and bring her home again if it's the last thing he does....The story takes place over the course of nine days, and ends in a showdown in a remote mountain cabin.

I had such fun writing this book. I discovered I like writing about bad people doing bad things waaay more than I like writing about good people doing good things. Maybe it sounds weird but if you think about it, would your life be interesting to read about? Right. Didn't think so. Plus I got to do research into borderline personality disorders. And revisit in my mind some of my very favorite places in all the world, including posh parts of Washington, D.C. and southern Colorado.

 It's an honor to be up for consideration for an award from RWA, an organization that does so much to help so many writers. I am so looking forward to meeting people and putting faces to names I know from online chat rooms. And getting some real genuine BBQ!! Watch this space.....