Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

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Check it out at Boombox Gifts.com. I'm here today with Wendy Walker. Wendy is the national bestselling author

of All Is Not Forgotten, Emma in the Night, and now her latest work the night before.

She has sold rights to her books in 23 languages, which I can't even name 23 languages,

as well as film and television options.

Wendy graduated Magnicum Laddie from Brown University and Georgetown University Law School.

Prior to her writing career, Wendy practiced both corporate and family law and worked as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs.

She currently lives in Connecticut with her three children.

So welcome Wendy.

Thanks so much for coming on Mom's Don't have time to read books.

Thank you for having me.

We were just joking about how both of us have been up. I was up last night with little kids. She was up with her big older kids. So, you know, we'll just put that as a caveat. It never ends. We're both sleep deprived. So please tell listeners what the night before is about. So the night before is about a woman named Laura who goes out on an internet date and never comes home.

And then it's about her sister Rosie who looks for her the next morning.

And it's also about a man who lies and who uses internet dating to lure women out on dates under false pretenses.

But it is also about turning the damsel and distress theme upside down.

So I gave Laura a backstory that's dark and filled with a little bit of anger and rage

so that we actually become more afraid of what she might do

to this man if she discovers he's lying than what he might have done to her.

Excellent.

You can tell right from the beginning.

It's like thriller land.

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