Kathleen Rowland

Cross cultural, interracial author of romantic suspense

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Big Bear Lake, California
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Welcome to the Lake Mystery Seriew

I am writing the sequel of Deeds of Deceit in my Welcome to the Lake series from Eternal Press.  DEEDS OF MALICE begins when Bayliss Jones' best friend, Amihan, a Filipina mail order bride, learns she wasn't legally married when her "husband" Larry Creswell, is killed in a drive by shooting.  Larry's partner Finbar Donahue hires her as his accounting assistant because money is missing, and he thinks Ami knows something about it.  He's far too cynical to trust a woman, particularly one with a dubious "mail order" reputation.  Trying to make ends meet, Ami rents out her downstairs apartment to a friendly woman she met at Larry's funeral. Her roommate knows all about Larry's fraudulent bank account, having schemed it with him. To keep her job and save for her dream career as a sports fashion designer, Ami knows she must impress her cool new boss.  His magnetic power terrifies her, but when she's in terrible danger, she finds herself at his mercy. Will Finbar save her in more ways than one? These winter mountain stories will chill you to the bone, but spicy romance will warm your heart. 


When an author submits a manuscript for a publisher's consideration, he or she includes a synopsis, a back-cover blurb, and a marketing plan for the book.  In order for me to write an emotionally moving story, I write from the heart of the characters I've created.  The suspense-filled plot drives the characters together, but their reactions drive the action.  I put deep thought into titles also. My writing style is contemporary gothic.

My heroines are gutsy and complicated, the hero needs to match her strength, and a romantic suspense plot must be action-packed.  I research the background for my plots.  The evil person in DEEDS OF DECEIT heads up a front organization for a cult, Get Megawatts, entirely fictional but represents an authentic and dangerous front organization operating today.  In my second story, DEEDS OF MALICE, consider the many Asian women who take their chances on love when they enter their information on bride websites.  Amihan needed to marry someone abroad so that she can send money home to her family but hoped to fall in love with her husband. Sadly they were never legally married in the U.S.