If you’ve already read Year of the Firefly, Book One of the Miranda Rights series, but haven’t gotten to read Book Two yet, you can download The Weight of Entanglement FREE in eBook format on Amazon from October 18-22 (promo ends at midnight Pacific Standard Time on the 22nd). If you’ve already read it, you might remember the orderly who has a broken heart tattooed beneath her eye. Well, there’s a conversation from October 1st between me and Mom that I’d like to share with you. It made our day to read this reader’s comments:

Chris, I don’t remember seeing this on Amazon from three months ago. But wow. Sent to Shonda too.  ILY – Mom

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ IN MY 37 years on this earth
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2024

“Someone sent this book and the second book in the Miranda McGuire series to my 20-year-old daughter who is currently at Lowell Correctional Institution doing twenty years. They sent them to her anonymously and so I bought them on Kindle to read at the same time she is reading her physical copies. We both love the books, wish we knew who sent them so we could thank them because these are the absolute best books I’ve read in my lifetime and it’s hard to believe they are in the fiction genre because they seem more like a memoir or autobiography!!!!! Kudos to the author.”

Hey mom. Yes, I am aware of this lady’s review. Although the details are in dispute 🙂 my version is as follows:

I have to create telling characteristics in order to differentiate the women in the books. Some are redheaded, some are blond, some are Latina, some are black… In Book Two, I gave a random confinement orderly a broken heart tattoo under her eye. Shonda says I saw it on the news. I don’t recall seeing it anywhere except on many of the faceless male prisoners that have crossed my path over the years. But here is the cool part… Shonda, unbeknownst to me, found a girl with the same tattoo under her eye on the FDC inmate locater and sent her Firefly and Entanglement. This reviewer is her mom. Pretty cool, right? These books are reaching the people they are supposed to, even if the world knows nothing about them… Yet. Can’t wait to send her Book Three! Just a couple more weeks(!). Love you. x

By the way, Book Three—The Law of Momentum—will be available in a couple of weeks. If you’ve been waiting, be on the lookout. “Set against the tumultuous backdrop of 2021 and threaded with the headlines of the era, old friends—and determined enemies—return in this third book of the Miranda Rights series.”