Book Title: NOT WHAT SHE SEEMS
Character Name: Faye Arden
How would you describe your family or your childhood?
My family was mediocre, and my childhood was relatively underwhelming. In high school is when things started to get a bit more interesting.
What was your greatest talent?
Our local pastor gave a sermon during church one Sunday when I was a kid and said something that has stayed with me to this day. He said that the devil’s greatest trick was convincing the world he didn’t exist. I remember thinking those were the most useful words the pastor ever touted from his pulpit - Convincing others that what they really are seeing, they aren’t. Now, I’m not the devil or anything, but I’m going to borrow his old trick as my very own talent and superpower.
Significant other?
Mayor Tate. For now.
Biggest challenge in relationships?
Sometimes having to constantly play the role becomes tiring.
Where do you live?
At the moment, Brook Haven, South Carolina
Do you have any enemies?
LOL, is this a real question? There is no one good enough to be my enemy.
How do you feel about the place where you are now?
Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place? The town is pretty but doesn’t move fast enough for me. However, I do enjoy being a big fish in a small pond again.
Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?
God no.
What do you do for a living?
Make people’s lives a living hell and see how they do with that.
Greatest disappointment?
When others disappoint me in some way or the other. It’s upsetting. And then things don’t go well…at least for them.
Greatest source of joy?
Getting the prize.
What do you do to entertain yourself or have fun?
I enjoy a good party and a fantastic glass of red.
What is your greatest personal failing, in your view?
Though my father was average and weak, he did love me and never gave up on me. I wish I’d gone to see him before he died.
What keeps you awake at night?
I sleep like a goddamn baby.
What is the most pressing problem you have at the moment?
That Jac’s seen the real me. I don’t know how she did it before I was ready, but she has. And I need to keep her in check.
Is there something that you need or want that you don’t have?
For yourself or for someone important to you? I want it all…everything. And that is still not enough.
Why don’t you have it? What is in the way?
If I’m honest, I am insatiable, and nothing is ever good enough. When I have achieved whatever I was going after, my satisfaction of that acquisition is always short-lived.
She left home as the local pariah at twenty-two, but when a family tragedy brings her back, she must confront her tortured past—and a new danger in town that no one seems to understand but her.
After years of self-exile, Jacinda “Jac” Brodie is back in Brook Haven, South Carolina. But the small cliffside town no longer feels like home. Jac hasn’t been there since the beloved chief of police fell to his death—and all the whispers said she was to blame.
That chief was Jac’s father.
Racked with guilt, Jac left town with no plans to return. But when her granddad lands in the hospital, she rushes back to her family, bracing herself to confront the past.
Brook Haven feels different now. Wealthy newcomer Faye Arden has transformed the notorious Moor Manor into a quaint country inn. Jac’s convinced something sinister lurks beneath Faye’s perfect exterior, yet the whole town fawns over their charismatic new benefactor. And when Jac discovers one of her granddad’s prized possessions in Faye’s office, she knows she has to be right.
But as Jac continues to dig, she stumbles upon dangerous truths that hit too close to home. With not only her life but also her family’s safety on the line, Jac discovers that maybe some secrets are better left buried.
Suspense [Thomas & Mercer, On Sale: August 1, 2024, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781662508318 / ]
Yasmin Angoe is the Anthony-nominated author of the critically acclaimed thrillers Her Name Is Knight and They Come At Knight of the Nena Knight series. She is a first-generation Ghanaian American and, in 2020, received the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime. Yasmin is a former educator, and she and her blended family of six live in South Carolina. She is also a proud member of several prestigious organizations, such as Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Crime Writers of Color, International Thriller Writers, and the Women’s National Book Association.
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