Blood Ties

After a brutal rape and beating causes Taylor Walker Campbell to miscarry, the fictional panhandle town of Walker, Fla., rallies around her. She soon discovers her retired judge father ordered the attack to “protect” her after he discovered her brief affair with a 14-year-old black neighbor.

After a brutal rape and beating causes Taylor Walker Campbell to miscarry, the fictional panhandle town of Walker, Fla., rallies around her. She soon discovers her retired judge father ordered the attack to “protect” her after he discovered her brief affair with a 14-year-old black neighbor. When her lawyer/war-hero husband, Capt. Cameron Campbell, returns from Iraq, he cold bloodedly shoots an intruder in their home, coincidentally one of Taylor’s attackers. Her life begins a downward spiral when she finds those around her hiding secrets, some which could prove to be deadly.

In her 23-year Army career, Jan worked primarily in personnel and public affairs, serving her last four years in the Washington, D.C., area. Since retiring in Pensacola, Fla., she has held jobs ranging from a women’s assisted living facility administrator to ESE teacher and intervention specialist/behavior coach at two middle schools. She currently serves as Committee Vice Chair and Art Show Committee Co-Chair for the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival. Jan’s writing/editing credits include articles and photos published in Climate and Pensacola Today magazines and the Pensacola News Journal, including several of its specialty publications. She has participated in the “So, You Want to Write for the Pensacola News Journal” forum at then-Pensacola Junior College, as well as served as panelist for two sessions of a Gulf Coast Writers Conference in Panama City, Fla. In 2007 she was a featured speaker at the Friends of the Pensacola Public Library Meet the Author Series. In 2006 Jan won the First Annual Florida Noir Festival noir script competition for The Red Heron, set in Pensacola in August 1941. In 2008 she won a national WOW! Women on Writing Honorable Mention for her flash fiction, Sex and Money, which also won 1st place in a Gulf Coast Writers Conference Gulf Coast Idol contest. Jan is currently editing a young adult novel to be published later this year. Her books may be purchased through Amazon or other retailers or by email.