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Alasdair lay over on the wide backseat as his driver drove his coffin-like car to the next location that would take them back underground until the sun set. The black painted windows with thick black curtains surrounded them as he waited for the light of day to take him away, looking over at the woman who would turn his life into one of flight and not fight. And he smiled.
Robin Renee Ray is not what you’d call your ‘normal’ novelist by any means of the word. Growing up, she never had any dreams of becoming a writer, but always had a fascination with the paranormal. She began watching scary movies at an early age, and found herself playing in cemeteries as soon as she was big enough to be out at night alone. She began writing in the summer of 2006, after being inspired by the birth of her first grandchild. Having dropped out of school in the tenth grade, she had very little knowledge of proper grammar, yet within four months, her first novel was complete. Robin has since dedicated herself to learning as much about writing as possible, and less than three years after first taking a pen to paper, she has nine books under her belt and counting. One of her main goals and dreams is to become the female version of the late, great Alfred Hitchcock – the absolute master of horror, in her opinion. Robin Renee Ray resides in a small town in southeast New Mexico with her husband, David, and their little chihuahua, Barbie. She spends as much free time as she can playing with her grandbabies.
Photograph © Kysha R. McBee
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