Kathy Harris is an author by way of a divine detour into the Nashville entertainment business. She graduated with a Communications degree from Southern Illinois University and has spent the past several decades employed as a marketing director in the Nashville music industry. She has contributed to a number of anthologies. Her first novel released in 2012.
In this interview Kathy talks about her latest book, Deadly Connection, which was released in October 2021.
FF: What inspired the story in your book Deadly Connection?
I knew I wanted to write about human trafficking in a different way than most books on the subject. After I wrote the first scene, I set it aside for a while. When I returned to it, the story began to take shape. It’s told from a different angle than you might expect. As one reviewer shared, it’s not graphic, but it’s also not short on suspense.
FF: What can you tell us about the main characters in your book?
Hannah Cassidy is a successful singer-songwriter in Nashville who narrowly escapes being abducted from a parking lot near the music district. Jake Matheson is a Special Agent with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Although Jake and Hannah are thrown together by chance, they quickly discover a connection between them—and it may prove to be deadly.
FF: Which character surprised you the most?
The antagonist. I’d never written by the seat-of-my-pants before, but this story took me there.
FF: Why do you think storytelling is such a powerful way to share truth?
We live in a world that tries to convince us we are alone. Story connects us. Christian fiction helps us understand that we are not alone in our search for meaning, relationships, and redemption.
FF: How has your faith or world view impacted the way you tell stories?
My faith is important to me, and so is the theme of second chances. The Gospel is all about second chances. No matter what mistakes we’ve made in life, they don’t have the final say. Christ does. I knew I wanted to write books when I was a little girl. After I dedicated my writing to Christian fiction twenty years ago that lifelong dream began to take shape.
Deadly Connection
Deadly Secrets Series #2
Kathy Harris
Iron Stream Media
Genres: Mystery/Suspense, Romantic Suspense
Release Date: October 8, 2021
ISBN-10: 1563095343
ISBN-13: 978-1563095344
Book Summary:
Will they uncover the secrets between them before it becomes deadly?
After fending off a would-be abductor, 27-year-old singer-songwriter Hannah Cassidy hides behind a car in the half-empty parking lot behind Pancake Pantry in Nashville. From there, she watches in horror as her attacker grabs another woman and pushes her into a nearby car. Within seconds, the vehicle speeds away.
TBI Special Agent Jake Matheson may have planned a quiet day off and a date with Shannon—the only name her online profile revealed—for an introductory lunch, but after pulling into a parking space on 21st Avenue South, he hears a scream. He races to the back of the building and finds a frightened young woman bent forward and gasping for breath.
Thrown together by uncanny circumstances and driven by the whys and what-ifs of secrets yet to be revealed, Hannah and Jake set out to find the connection between them before it becomes deadly.
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Christian Fiction New Book Release: Deadly Connection—The Deadly Secrets Series #2 by Kathy Harris