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Melissa Foster is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She writes contemporary romance, new adult, contemporary women’s fiction, suspense, and historical fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Her books have been recommended by USA Today’s book blog, Hagerstown Magazine, The Patriot, and several other print venues. She is the founder of the World Literary Café and Fostering Success. When she’s not writing, Melissa helps authors navigate the publishing industry through her author training programs on Fostering Success. Melissa has been published in Calgary’s Child Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Women Business Owners magazine.
Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Kara Knight has been accepted at the University of North Carolina to study nursing, something she has always wanted to do. She has worked the night shift in the power plant where she lives in Williamsport, Maryland, and has just moved into her own apartment after leaving her unfaithful husband, Daryl. Kara's mother Mimi wants her to move her cartons of personal possessions from Mimi and step-father Ted's home as Kara lived with them right after leaving Daryl. Kara has other things going on in her life. Psychotic Roland Greer has traveled in his Brown Derby, his 1999 Dodge Ram truck, from his home in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, to Williamsport as he is convinced that Kara is his long-missing fraternal twin sister, Marissa. His face disfigured by a long-ago burn, Roland is bent upon getting to his Marissa as he is convinced that she loves and trusts him. Even though police watch him for further psychotic outbreaks, Roland gets to the power plant where Kara works. Since he is convinced that Kara is really Marissa, who knows what Roland will do?
"Traces of Kara" is a thriller that offers the readers unexpected twists and turns as one page follows another. "Traces of Kara" will keep the reader absorbed throughout its pages. Kara, her mother Mimi, Roland, Chambersburg Police Sergeant Mark Agnew, Kara's step-father Ted, and all the other characters in this story are believable, sometimes tenacious and downright scary. And it is guaranteed that after reading "Traces of Kara" readers everywhere will look at a container of anti-freeze and shudder just a little bit. The plot-line proceeds to the story's end where readers will breathe a sigh of relief but will be glad they put "Traces of Kara" on their reading lists.
