Unrevealed

outside of a bar after closing on a cold Denver night.
    Things aren’t always what they seem.

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
    Hello readers,

    I wanted you to be the first to know that you’re going to meet a new character soon that is not connected to Jane Perry.
    Hold on! Before you get concerned that I’m ignoring Jane, rest assured that she will reappear in the summer of 2012 with the fourth book in her series. But before that, there’s a new woman in town who I think will capture your heart.
    Her name is Betty Craven. Like Jane, she lives in Colorado (although she hails from Texas). She doesn’t solve crimes or talk like a sailor, but, she is tough. She has to be for what she experiences in her story.
    Why did I create Betty Craven? Just like Jane Perry, Betty’s character came to me from my own life experiences. While I am not Jane Perry, I am also not Betty Craven. However, both of these women and I share aspects that I think a lot of other women can relate to.
    Over the last twelve months, I turned fifty, my mother died, and I witnessed a lot of people around me desperately fighting for what they thought was important to them. Some of those people lost everything, including their will to live. Others opted to completely transform themselves and bravely stepped outside their protective boxes and lived life from a new and much more honest perspective. Because they allowed their belief systems to change, they found an exhilarating freedom they’d never encountered. As I watched this profound transformation, I found a provocative sense welling
up inside of me. A rebellion. A need to explore why I do what I do and think what I think.
    I started asking myself the questions that I believe a lot of people start asking themselves when they realize they have more years behind them than in front of them. Am I happy? Are my belief systems based on my own reality or someone else’s that I’ve blindly agreed to? Is life inherently tough or is it tough because you believe it has to be in order to succeed? Am I living my life too close to the vest? If so, is it time to rethink that? What are my greatest fears and how can I overcome them? These are only a few of the deep questions I posed to myself and ruminated on for quite some time.
    And before long, Betty Craven was born. These themes and many others are featured in her story, which will probably be controversial to some readers who have fixed ideas. What Betty Craven does and why she does it, transforms her deeply and alters her life forever.
    I hope that just as you have taken Jane Perry under your collective wings, you will also invite Betty Craven into your life. I know she’s waiting to meet you.

    Laurel Dewey

    Meet Betty when Laurel Dewey’s new novel goes on sale from The Story Plant in early 2012.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

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    First Story Plant Paperback Printing: October 2011