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Kimberly Belle | Author-Reader Match: THE PERSONAL ASSISTANT
Author Guest / November 29, 2022

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Kimberly Belle!   Writes: I write suspenseful stories featuring strong, complex women. Normal, ordinary women like you and me live their lives when thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Like Alex, for example, the Instagram influencer in THE PERSONAL ASSISTANT whose life gets turned upside down when a post goes viral in the worst possible way. But when she calls her assistant AC, she’s vanished. Soon the police declare her missing, and they come looking to Alex and her family for clues. Yes, The Personal Assistant is suspenseful, but at the heart, it’s a story about a married couple and a husband who’s carrying some pretty big secrets. When Alex’s career starts to crash and burn all around them, her problems shine a spotlight on what her husband has been hiding. How Alex and her husband respond to her getting canceled is a big part of what makes her story so thrilling.   About: I’m a Southern girl at heart, and it’s something that shines through…

Kimberly Belle | 20 Questions: STRANGER IN THE LAKE
Author Guest / June 8, 2020

1–What’s the name of your latest release?  Stranger in the Lake 2–What is it about?  Stranger in the Lake is a story about Charlotte, a woman who’s left her trailer-park past behind to marry Paul, an older, wealthier man with a gorgeous house on an Appalachian lake in North Carolina. Their relationship is the focus of much small-town gossip, but Charlotte is able to ignore it until a woman’s body washes up under their dock—in the exact same spot where Paul’s first wife drowned. At first, the woman’s death seems like a horrific coincidence, but the stranger in the lake is no stranger. Charlotte saw Paul talking to her the day before, even though Paul tells the police he’s never met the woman. His lie exposes cracks in their fragile new marriage and dark secrets that have been simmering under the lake’s waters for years. 3–What word best describes your main character(s)?  Rags-to-riches 4–What makes your story relatable?  All my stories tend to focus on familial relationships. Parent-child, husband-wife, siblings. I love exploring the emotions that come along with these types of bonds, mostly because they’re so universally recognizable. Toss in the suspense angle—a lying spouse, a child gone missing,…