It's so easy for something to take over your life. You don't even know its happening. The need whispers to your subconscious and soon you have no choice but to give in. It can be as obvious as pursuing your career, as fleeting as a glimpse of a girl on the street, as hopeful as the search for change, as dangerous as the need to enter where you're not allowed, or as tempting as the bottom of the bottle. The drive takes over and you are compelled to follow and it takes you down a desperate path from which you may not return. Five stories illuminate that path, find out if our characters can overcome or if they will be dragged down by their obsession.
Erica Damon is a writer, equestrian, and artist living in Western Massachusetts. Her compulsively creative nature has led to a collection of ‘what ifs?’ and that sense of wonder weaves its way into her fiction. She writes thriller and horror under her name, and equestrian romance under the pen name, Isla Ryder.
In any genre, her goal is to sweep the reader into her world, keeping it grounded enough in reality that the reader doesn’t question a moment of the action.
This is what she loves helping other authors with, as she has discovered that she enjoys reading books in the early stages even more than published ones and helping writers to spin their stories into something riveting as a developmental editor. If she’s not writing, she’s likely out riding horses while ideas swirl in the background.