Rashawnda Ungerer's Blog

Thriller author, Rashawnda Ungerer, is currently in the writer’s lab penning her current work in progress entitled War of One. Sign up for the newsletter and be the first to know about prelaunch giveaways, events, and book release dates.  In the meantime, follow Rashawnda on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to receive the latest updates from the writer’s […]

Cecelia Clark starts out as this totally unassuming, socially awkward, guarded young woman whose success in life revolves closely around her career as a contractor for the US Air Force. But in every other aspect of her life—her marriage, her friends, her family—she’s a huge failure and that is mostly due to the fact that […]

Amber McAllister, a self-proclaimed white country girl, asked a very innocent and thought-provoking question on Facebook about an article in Essence Magazine that reminded me of a question I’ve been asked so many times before: “Why are there so many black magazines?” I used to answer this question bitterly with another question, “Why are there so many white […]

You failed. You gave it everything you had: your money, your time, your soul. You quit your job. You dropped out of school. You even turned your back on your family and your closest friends because they knew this day would come. You tried and you failed. So now what do you do, Failure? You’re […]

Don’t you just love those last few lines at the end of a chapter that pull you further into the story? Filled with tons of foreshadow and intrigue, the hook is meant to get the reader to want to turn the page as quickly as possible to find out what happens in the next chapter. […]

You’ve been told that in order to get ahead in this world that you have to make some changes. Your clothes. Your hairstyle. Your behavior. Maybe even the people in your closest circle. And the idea of changing any one of those things is so terrifying that you immediately reject it. Why should any of that matter if […]

We’ve all done things we regret. The guilt sometimes turns you against yourself. Your best qualities seem wasted on you and your flaws are amplified. When your regrets are as colossal as Cecelia Clark‘s, how do you deal? In The Hardest of Ways when she returns to the States after her abduction, she is not just recovering […]

“She hadn’t been so keen before the cage. She hadn’t used her powers of observation. She hadn’t tapped into her innate ability to build mnemonics and boundlessly extend the precision of her memory. Her potential had lay dormant until her survival instincts kicked in and drew from the well of natural talent. All of this […]

This is one of my favorite lines from The Hardest of Ways, the book that introduced Cecelia Clark as the female badass she proved herself to be.

Ever since you were a little kid you’ve been brought up to follow “the path of the herd”—the traditional trail to the American Dream. You knew you were going to college, work a 9-to-5, get married, raise a family, and retire with the rest of the herd. But somewhere along the trail you discovered sights […]