Who is Logan?

I had someone ask me once what my protagonist’s “super power” was. That stumped me, but not for long. Just like you and I, Logan McKenna doesn’t have one. She’s an ordinary woman plopped down in the extraordinary circumstances of life.

What makes me want to keep writing Logan, and I hope keeps you interested in reading her, is finding out how she handles losing the 3 legs of the stool we all depend on -love, health, and financial stability – all at the same time.

What will she do?

Logan McKenna is going to call on every molecule of Scotch-Irish strength she can summon as she struggles with multiple losses that came after a major car accident that took her husband’s life, the business they built together, the perfect health she had always taken for granted, her career, her music, and her illusions. Nothing is as it seemed.

She thought she had a good life, and in many ways, it was. She and her husband built a successful software training business together, and raised their wonderful daughter, Amy, who is in Africa pursuing her own dreams. But somewhere along the way, bits of herself got pushed to the back of the closet, along with her violin, Bella.

Bella, the beautiful violin she inherited from her father, was a constant companion growing up. So much so that she majored in Music and later, added a major in Math, because she simply enjoyed the beauty of it. Her math skills came in handy for keeping track of the accounting side of their business, but wasn’t what she had ever planned on doing. It just happened. After she and Jack married and Amy came along, there was never enough time to play Bella, or even listen to music like she used to.

A natural athlete, the 5’ 8” auburn-haired Logan has always taken her health for granted. Not anymore. After the accident, she finds herself dealing with back pain that never quite goes away – realizing the body she has always counted on has limits.

In SHATTERED: Logan Book 1, we meet Logan when she’s just rediscovering the joy of being herself, but also dealing with the very real crisis of being about to lose a job she’s not even sure she wants. She finds herself having to make critical choices she thought she made when she was in her twenties and wouldn’t have to deal with again – the two biggies being career and relationships. Not even sure she ever wants a relationship again, like it or not, she’s alone and swimming in the deep end of the dating pool.

Although not a sorority girl type, Logan is not completely alone. She has few friends, but her relationships last: her friend, Bonnie, her best friend from high school, Thomas, and recently, her budding relationship with her landscape-architect neighbor, Ben. In FOREST PARK: Logan Book 2, she continues to explore her new career and face a crisis of trust and vulnerability with Ben.