Goodreads asked Ryshia Kennie:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Ryshia Kennie I was standing on the edge of Cambodia’s killing fields. It’s a haunting and horrifying place. The field is pocked by mass graves labeled only by sex and sometimes age. Just beyond the barbed wire children stood in a river, giggling as they scrubbed a bony-hipped cow as if what sprawled behind them had never happened.

It was such a surreal moment. The laughter of the children, the atrocity of the mass graves and the sun shining as if to mirror the children’s oblivion. And as I stood there horrified and fascinated, I thought about the Khmer Rouge and the genocide in the seventies.

What had become of those that perpetrated this evil, those that still lived and had not stood trial? And with that thought, the beginnings of a story, the romantic suspense, Intent to Kill, was born.

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