Overview

If you've never felt like you fit in...if you ever wondered about the sanity of those around you, then you will love Drew Watkins' story about growing up in the bizarre world of a funeral home, where the dead seemed more alive than the living.

Surrounded by dead bodies and a family who might as well BE dead, Drew must learn how to navigate a confining life filled with rules she does not understand nor agree with.

Befriending a homeless woman who shares a love of books with her, Drew realizes there is more to life than the death surrounding her. It takes a homeless woman, a Mexican family, and the corpses in the cellar to show Drew what she is made of and how special she truly is. And as she grows up and discovers her own path, Drew struggles to release herself from the shackles of a childhood that continues to reach for her from the grave.

In the end, as she fights for her own identity, as she struggles to overcome obstacles thrown in her way, Drew Watkins understands one very true thing about life:

There is Nothing Fair About It.

About Linda Kay Silva

My alter ego, Alex Westmore, and I have penned over 40 novels...

35 novels have been published by 4 different presses... 4 Goldies... a Lambda nod, and the Alice B award, and I'm still loving what I do.

I was honored with the Alice B Award for my body of work. What a wonderful and humbling experience to be acknowledge for the breadth of one's insanity!

I have been writing for 30 years. I wrote 4 horrid novels when I was younger... until someone asked me why I didn't write cop stories, since I had been one way back in the dark ages. I fought that urge, not being a mystery reader at the time and because police work was not a match for me. Instead, I took my Masters in English to education and I have been a teacher for the majority of my life. I prefer to touch lives rather than arrest them. Nonetheless, one day, Delta Stevens sprang into my head, as well as my heart, and so I wrote. And wrote. And the next thing I knew... there she was, and there a publisher was, and there was the beginning of my writing career and my love of the irascible Delta Stevens, who makes a comeback in the Echo series.

Like a love affair that sneaks up on you, Delta and her cast of characters came into my life, changing me forever. Perhaps it was Delta, maybe it was writing itself, but my life transformed dramatically.

Publishers have come and gone as the industry has changed dramatically. With Borders and Barnes and Nobles pushing out the smaller bookstores, smaller presses went with them...and so ended my publishers and Delta.

But I kept on writing... and now, I have published 35 novels in a variety of genres, and have won 4Golden Crown Literary Awards.

It is my hope that my readers will come help Inspired Quill grow into the powerhouse I know it can be...to read, read, and read more!