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04/29/2026
A café worker saves a burning skyscraper. An eight-year-old runs surveillance on a vacant lot. A husband investigates his wife's ghost romance from the lake house. None of them have the training. All of them think like they do. After thirty years in intelligence analysis and investigations, that habit followed me into my writing. The new post on The Author's Desk is about why.
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How I Write Characters Who Think Like an Analyst Writing characters who think like an analyst takes more than a plot twist. After thirty years in intelligence analysis, the habit moved into my writing.
The latest release from Branching Plot Books, The Legend of Mara Flores, is now available.
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At 5:28 a.m., Mara Flores swipes her access badge, and the Tower lets her in.
For twenty years, Mara has worked as a barista inside a major corporate headquarters. She opens the café before dawn, keeps the building running, and remains invisible to the people who depend on her.
When a sudden rent increase leaves her homeless, Mara keeps showing up to work as if nothing has changed. Same uniform. Same routine. No one asks where she slept. No one notices.
Then, during a quiet moment inside the Tower, Mara finds a misplaced access badge. It opens doors she was never meant to enter.
As rumors of a Phantom inside the building begin to circulate, a security operations center deep below the lobby starts tracking an anomaly. They aren't searching for a person. They're searching for a pattern.
The Legend of Mara Flores is a slow-burn corporate thriller about surveillance, survival, and the danger of being noticed too late.
Available now.
Paperback: https://amzn.to/4bvGNBR
eBook: https://amzn.to/45RunAo
Audiobook: Coming soon
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