Susan Miura

Author Bio:

Susan Miura grew up in the Chicago suburbs, graduated from NIU, and spent six years as a newspaper reporter. She currently works in public relations for the Schaumburg, IL library, reviews books for The Book Report, and gives travel presentations, book talks and writing workshops at libraries. Susan is the Vice President of the ACFW Chicago Chapter and a member of SCBWI. She's the author of two YA novels, Healer and Show Me a Sign, as well as short stories published in three anthologies. She is married to a police sergeant and has two adult children and a married stepdaughter.

Surviving Carmelita

Where Do You Run When Your World Implodes? “Mom?” Ashley’s shakes can be heard in that single, whispery word. “Mom, what happened?” I take a breath, unable to turn my head. Unable to move at all. “I don’t know, Ash.” But somehow I do know, beneath skin chilled by the breath of demons,…

Signs in the Dark

ONE CAPTIVE Blindfolded, gagged and tied to a chair, 17-year-old Haylie Summers has only one goal: stay alive. Nothing about her abduction makes sense. Deaf since birth, she can’t hear her captors and can only guess why someone would take her. Is she about to be thrown into the dark abyss of human…

Shards of Light

Ice crystalizes around Shilo’s heart, threatening to plunge her into darkness as she’s gripped by evil. And it is only Week Two of her summer-long exile to Sicily. But Shilo will face the evil, and the torment of missing Kenji, because the reason she crossed an ocean is worth that and more. Nonna…

Healer

Warmth. Peace. A misty blue haze. Heat that radiates from her heart and flows through her body, down her arms, and into her palms. It happens every time. Shilo Giannelli possesses an amazing God-given gift. But in the face of danger and heartbreaking loss, she struggles with the immensity of being a…

Show Me a Sign

All he wanted was to share a pizza with the coolest girl he'd ever met, until she got kidnapped. Seventeen-year-old Nathan Boliva is under investigation by the FBI for a kidnapping he didn't commit. Deaf and beautiful Haylie Summers agreed to go out with him, then disappeared before their first date.…