I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

She majored in creative writing with minors in criminology penology and psychology. Her mother was a teacher specializing in developmentally disabled children and her father was a sports coach. Her first book was The Stranger Beside Me which Ann Rule wrote under her own name.