Retribution

by J.E. Friend

Finding happiness after putting the past behind her, Maggie embraces her growing family.

Then, a case of mistaken identity shatters her carefully reconstructed life and set her on the path of vengeance.

The stake are hight as she battles between who she wants to be and her darker nature that simmers beneath the surface until she becomes trapped in a dangerous world where seeking justice could cost Maggie her life.

Struggling to end her vendetta with a growing number of suspects, she's torn between her past and present. can she maintain the lifestyle she's constructed, or will her need for bloodlust force her to continue the hunt to amend wrongs?

271 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2023

About the author

J. E. Friend is an emerging author of crime thrillers. She lives in the beautiful Annapolis Valley with her husband and their dog, Hartley. There she is able to enjoy the peace and solitude it offers so that she can write, whether in her writing room or on the deck. She has a Bachelor’s Degree from Waterloo, where her field of study was psychology, this enables her to get into the mind of a killer when writing.
She is a member of Author’s Ink, a writing group in Nova Scotia, consisting of published and non published authors, and for the past few years she has also been The Municipal Liaison for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) for her geographical area. NaNoWriMo promotes writers with an annual challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November, which she has won each year since 2017. She is an active member of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia where she has reviewed and short listed emerging authors in several competitions.
Design of Deception is her first novel. She is currently working on a trilogy that follows a serial killer across Canada.