About the Book
On a midsummer night in Newark, New Jersey, Rachael Watts has her first date with a rapist. Charming and thoughtful at first, Carl Bart makes a pastor’s daughter his next victim and creates hell on earth, his own hell that is.
Plagued with guilt, a devastated Rachael deviates from her moral teachings and, in a quest for revenge, commits a few crimes of her own. Eventually, her father intervenes and the fallen angel must soon choose between drowning in her pain and resurfacing to face God.
Whatever the outcome, someone must pay for Carl’s sins, but it may not be whom you think. This provocative and unorthodox story is based in truth and is a must-read if you wish to have a sleepless night.
About the Author
Julia Theresa Kanhai is a native of Guyana—the only English-speaking country in South America. She grew up in the capital city Georgetown where dwells a diverse culture wrought by countless ethnic groups, languages and religions. Writing since the age of eight, she spent her childhood buried in stories penned by Enid Blyton and R. L Stine while as a teen, the works of J. K Rowling and Stephen King helped her to decide on a future career.
In 2003, Kanhai was awarded the Best Literature Student of her year while in 2008 she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Linguistics. Apart from teaching English to kids, teens and adults, Terry K. began reciting poetry at various events nationwide. By the age of twenty-two she was working at the University of Guyana in the English department and is currently a lecturer attached to the School of Education and Humanities.
Her first publication, BACKSLIDER, was inspired by true events but the characters and settings are all fictional. “When a childhood friend from a sister church told me her horrendous tale, I felt a grave sense of injustice because I thought that godly people were protected from such evil. Clearly, I had a lot left to learn. This story is meant to be unorthodox and liberating, as I explore what could happen when haunting events cause religious indoctrination and instinctive human nature to collide head on.”
Terry K. is now writing Dream Guy.