
When will dawn come? It's so dark. I found a flashlight in the garage when I got here, but I don't dare turn it on. The light might be seen outside.

My mother died two weeks before my 23rd birthday. On my birthday I opened a drawer and found a small box containing a jade pendant and earrings which she had brought back from a recent trip to Australia. I don't remember her having given them to me. She wouldn't have put them where they were. Besides, it wasn't her style to hide gifts. I have no idea how they came to be in that drawer.

I'm Sheryl Fawcett. The timing of this group is uncanny for me. Late last year I published my first work of fiction, and its sequel will be out soon. Both are Women's Contemporary Fiction and can also be classified as Boomer Lit. The next book I will be writing (already in loose outline stage but without a final title) has a paranormal twist.
I look forward to learning and sharing within these discussion threads.