” I grew up across the street from an old library with English architecture of red brick and Bedford stone.I loved nothing more than walking under its high beamed ceilings, searching the shelves for books, and taking them home to get lost in the pages and experience the characters’ lives. I can’t remember a time that I didn’t want to do for others what those authors did for me.”

Kristina McBride has wanted to be a writer since she was a child. Her debut novel has been described as “A haunting psychological thriller taken straight from the headlines, The Tension of Opposites, by Kristina McBride, is a striking debut that explores the emotional aftermath of a kidnapping on the victim, and on the people she left behind.”

Read more about Kristina Mcbride at her website.