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I chose Over the Edge as my working title because it reflected the story’s trigger incident and emotional theme.
The book opens with Jeep guide Del Cooper’s discovery of a body lying on a canyon ledge, someone who’s literally fallen over the edge. Or so it seems.
As for Del, she’s been figuratively over the edge. Three years earlier, she was a crime reporter who made an error in judgment that killed a cop. She started drinking, lost her job, and even now, after pulling herself back from the abyss, she struggles to hold it together. She has unexplained visions that might be clues to the murder… or signals she’s still poised at the knife edge of normalcy.
What's in a name?
Sedona--the name is sibilant, mysterious, even seductive. People fascinated by...[read on]
My Book, The Movie: Over the Edge.
Q&A with Kathleen Bryant.
--Marshal Zeringue
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