And Reece hit the trifecta with her debut.  "When I started RESCUE ME, I wanted to write a story that had been rambling around in my head for a few months. It was about a young woman who goes through a horrific event and then disappears without a trace. Years later, she's reinvented herself and is doing what no one was around to do for her...rescuing victims. It wasn't until I was in the middle of the story that I became intrigued with the organization she worked for called Last Chance Rescue. I was fascinated not only by the power and influence they had, but also the things they could accomplish. In the midst of writing RESCUE ME, Noah McCall, the founder of Last Chance Rescue, captured my attention. I loved this character and knew I had to write his story too. From there, the story ideas kept coming and the people who worked for the organization became even more mysterious and interesting. At the time I pitched it, I had no real plans to write a trilogy or a series. I was at a conference and had a pitch session scheduled with an agent I'd long admired. I'd just completed RESCUE ME and had a few pages of RETURN TO ME, Noah McCall's story. The agent requested the full manuscript of RESCUE ME. She read and liked it and offered representation. When she sold the trilogy to Ballantine, I only had about 20,000 words of RETURN TO ME finished. My agent was the one who saw the potential not only for the trilogy but also for an entire series."

And Reece takes a slightly different tack with her trilogy.  She centers the trilogy on an organization rather than one particular character.  "The work that Last Chance Rescue performs fascinated me, but it's the people who make up the organization I found the most intriguing. Why do they work for LCR? What, in their past, makes them so committed to rescuing the innocent? I love character driven books, to read and to write. Having Last Chance Rescue as the backdrop only made these characters more interesting and fun to write. Each person has come to the organization for his or her own unique reasons. I love finding out why and then telling their stories."

Contributing editor Mark Combes is an avid sailor and Scuba diver and travels extensively in the Caribbean pursuing his passions. He works in book publishing and RUNNING WRECKED is his first novel.