Minx Marvel began with the thought that it would be a novella, but it landed in the short novel zone as her story took shape and form. Writing about childhood sexual abuse and child pornography is not easy, but this story emerged from my criminal justice background.

Minx is twenty-three, has been away from her hometown for five years studying art in England and painting to support herself. She returns home because her childhood home is available to rent from her father whose traveling around Vermont these days painting on the sides of barns and buildings. She's come home to reset her internal compass and find the path into her future.

She never intended to reveal what she had endured as a child from ages three to eleven. She would have preferred to fight her demons alone, but she falls in love with the owner of the local bookshop. A man arrives a few months later, directed to her by her father. He wants some paintings of her that Mitchell Marvel made when she was a child, the rest of the series he had been collecting.

A terrible accident reveals the seamy underbelly of the town and surrounding communities and sets off a series of attacks on Minx and her boyfriend. Girls involved in the ever growing child pornography and sexual abuse case begin to go missing. Minx is stung and hurt by the anger the community directs towards her- the victim.

This is her story. This is who she has become. This is where she wants to go from here.

Minx Marvel is available on Amazon as a print book and as an ebook in the Kindle store.