Marcie Kane is, of course, the lead character in my Marcie Kane Thriller Collection. While the books stand alone through the collection, Marcie evolves. One reviewer recently commented that he was disappointed that her circumstance change from one book to the next, but isn’t that what life is about?
Without giving away the story, I wanted to write a little about the evolution of Marcie throughout the series. Marcie is known to readers as a strong, independent woman who often finds herself in trouble. The reader is introduced to Marcie in the first book in the series, The Vanishing Wife, where she is recently divorced from a professional basketball player whom she refers to as He Who Shall Not Be Named. She is enjoying her newfound freedom after the burden of a bad marriage. She is witty, sarcastic and smart and that helps her try to track down her friend who has vanished from the face of the earth.
However, in the second book, A Perilous Question, the incident of the previous story has given her nightmares and she becomes more reckless as she stumbles upon a human trafficking ring. She is unsure of the direction her life should be taking. She is still trying to do the right thing by contributing money to fund an orphanage in Africa when she finds out that some of the girls are being spirited away. She foolishly tries to do too much on her own until a love interest enters her life and calms things down.
The third book in the series finds Marcie in a better place – more relaxed and ready to settle down. She helps her new fiancé, FBI Special Agent Nathan Harris, solve a crime using her brain. She is a little older and perhaps a little wiser as her life takes off in another direction. With the help of Nathan, she finds a career she loves, but still manages to find trouble.
She will continue on in a fourth book, tentatively entitled Flight Risk, in which new life challenges and dangers will be presented to her. How will she react when her life is turned upside down? We will have to see when the book is released in 2020.