A Rebel in Amber

About the Book

Insular Braeburn may seem like a safe haven after a shocking act of violence, but when Roddie Malcolm brings her sister home, she is surprised to find that Rowan and the attention she brings to the town aren’t welcome. An ER doctor moonlighting at an abortion clinic, Rowan just wants to go home after a bullet kills her lover. As incidents of petty harassment and vandalism escalate, Roddie finds she has also been marked as undesirable by the vigilantes at work cleansing their community of eyesores. Braeburn has secrets, but so does Roddie, whose violent lover helps her resist those who want the strong-willed Malcolm women purged.

About the Author

Debra Thrall recently retired from the State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health after thirty-five years as a medical transcriptionist. She resides in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Influenced by the tumultuous sixties during which she came of age, Debra Thrall has been a lifelong feminist, atheist, skeptic, and inveterate writer. She went to work for the State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health as a medical transcriptionist at Fairfield Hills Hospital and after that was closed, at Western Connecticut Mental Health in Waterbury, Connecticut, recently taking an early retirement after thirty-five years. Born in White Plains, New York, she has lived for most of her life in her father’s hometown of Sandy Hook, Connecticut, a once-rural district of Newtown which has endured steady and irresistible change including the closure of the state mental hospital and the addition of a maximum-security prison. Debra has remained single and has no children. She is the author of Thanatos Coming; the lead story in the premier issue of UNEARTH, the Magazine of Science Fiction Discoveries, winter 1977; and the novel Demon Stalking, published by Manor Books in 1978.