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Sarah K. Stephens

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Born

Youngstown, OH, The United States

Website

https://sarahkstephens.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Thriller, Psychology, Suspense

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P.D. James
Tana French
A.X. Ahmad
Jessica Francis Kane
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Member Since

August 2016

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Sarah K. Stephens is the author of seven novels and a developmental psychologist at Penn State University.

Although Fall and Spring find her in the classroom, she remains a writer year-round. Her writing has appeared in LitHub, The Writer's Chronicle, Hazlitt, and The Millions. Sarah's books include the psychological thrillers A Flash of Red, It Was Always You, The Anniversary, Isolation, The Good Life, The Killing Kind, and The Girl in the Fire.

Sarah loves using her psychological training to craft darkly human stories with killer twists. When she’s not plotting death and betrayal, she can be found enjoying the pleasures of country life with her husband and children in Central Pennsylvania.

E-mail: skstephensauthor (at) gmail (dot) com

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Average rating: 3.66 · 6,741 ratings · 701 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	It Was Always You 3.57 avg rating — 4,354 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Anniversary 3.80 avg rating — 1,436 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Isolation 3.82 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl in the Fire 3.90 avg rating — 223 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Good Life 3.87 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Flash of Red 3.94 avg rating — 87 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killing Kind 3.59 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First Came Fear: New Tales of Horror by Casey Ellis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Luke Spooner (Illustrator), Charlotte Byrne (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sarah Stephens made a comment on kateguas’s review of The Girl in the Fire " TY for reading, reviewing, and for all those kind words--and also for noting that, though I may not be dark and twisted, my fiction definitely is! ;) "
Sep 10, 2024 09:21AM · see review
Sarah Stephens liked kateguas's review of The Girl in the Fire: "Reader beware: only pick this beautifully dark and twisted book up if you have hours of uninterrupted reading time ahead of you. Believe me, you will not want to put it down. If you are lucky enough to know Sarah as a friend and human in the greater " Read more of this review »
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“Twenty minutes from my apartment, though, Annie needs to pull into a Sheetz. I can barely make it to a toilet before throwing up every last morsel.”
― Sarah K. Stephens, It Was Always You

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