She concentrated on the leafy pattern of the tree limbs against the gray sky overhead as the next contraction wrung her insides. Cloud-obscured skies made it difficult to determine the time of day, but she guessed it to be midmorning by now. Through the night, the ache in the lower part of her back had intensified until it crawled farther around her middle to twist her womb between angry fists. When had it begun? Last night just after sunset. She was chilled to the bone, but perspiration had clammily glazed her skin after endless hours of painful labor. The rags clung to her like a damp shroud, a cloying weight that anchored her to the marshy ground as securely as did the relentless pain. The rain was cold, each drop a tiny needle that pricked her skin, and it had soaked through the tattered dress and the few undergarments she had managed to hold together with clumsy knots. Undoubtedly it would come, because she didn't think she would be allowed to die before the baby was born. When it was over, she panted laboriously, like a wounded animal, trying to garner strength for the next assault, which she knew would seize her within minutes. She gripped her distended abdomen as another pain tore through her lower body and shimmied down her thighs.
She has gone on two USO tours, to Afghanistan and Cuba.Why has God made it so painful to die? the young woman wondered.
She has served as president of Mystery Writers of America, and in 2008 she was named Thriller Master, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer’s Association. Other honors include the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. īrown holds an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University. Her episode on truTV’s “Murder by the Book” premiered the series and she has appeared on Investigation Discovery’s series, “Hardcover Mysteries.” Television movies have been made of her novels French Silk, Smoke Screen, Ricochet, and White Hot.
Brown has published over eighty novels and has upwards of eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. Sandra Brown is the author of seventy-three New York Times bestsellers, including Blind Tiger, Thick As Thieves, Outfox, Tailspin, Seeing Red, Sting, Mean Streak, Friction, Deadline, and Rainwater.
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