It's a fascinating program, run by the U.S. Marshal Service , and apparently works very well for some people. But of course I wouldn't have had a story if my witness had been successfully protected. So I managed to find some flaws within the system. For this book I returned to the central Illinois setting I used for Sweet Dreams. Excerpt from Running Scared.
Sweetheart is close to home.
I live in southern Arizona, and the book is set in Tucson , on the campus of the University of Arizona . I can walk across campus and identify my scenes, or drive towards the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and spot key locations. Making up locations and worlds can be fun for a writer. By the way, once again I had nothing to do with the title. Unfortunately, many people confuse this with Sweet Dreams .