When her past is revealed however, it becomes harder and harder to hide from what she is and what she must do to have a life. After years of abuse she's learned a rhythm that can help her avoid her husband's wrath and when it can't the ways that she can deal with the least amount of punishment. What will she do to adapt?Īmelie is a heroine that grows over the course of her ordeal. She never wanted for the monster inside her to ever get out again and now all of the things she thought were so simple are becoming far more complex. Hounded by the police, reporters and her abusive husband Amelie feels like everything is falling apart. Nothing is out of the ordinary until the day that one of her students gets lost in the woods and the part of herself she thought she'd left in her past comes back. It's a life she knows and understands, she loves being a teacher and while things aren't always the best she thinks she's got a handle on her life.

Eventually she grew up and now she's the wife of Rick McConnell a soldier in a secret branch of the military.

She changed to make her parents happy and for a time things stopped being so hard. She does her own cover art and has worked with businesses in the past for logo creation and event announcements.Ī long time ago when she was a young girl she was forced to hide away a part of herself that she did not yet understand. Ellington Ashton Press as well as a graphic design student at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division. In addition to writing Susan is an editor with J. In addition she has published articles on the Yahoo! Contributor Network in a wide variety of subjects such as the validity of deity in the American government and the use of easy to find herbs. Susan is the author of 'Silent Heart', 'Under A Twisted Moon', and other titles forthcoming. She lives by the motto, 'Let your freak flag fly!' A shamanic pagan by faith and major sci-fi fan she is an eclectic person and welcomes as much diversity into her life as she can to feed her fertile imagination. She's a country girl through and through with progressive and optimistic ideas of nation and society. Susan grew up in central Wisconsin, only to move to rural Ohio in adulthood. She lives in a place where new hybrid cars, beat up farm trucks, and Amish horse and buggies meet in fast food parking lots for coffee. Susan is a writer and artist by day, a child and pet wrangler by night, and occasional crazy person on the weekends.

Under a Twisted Moon by Susan Simone