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Amber Garza

Biography

Amber Garza

Amber Garza has had a passion for the written word since she was a child making books out of notebook paper and staples. Her hobbies include reading and singing. Coffee and wine are her drinks of choice (not necessarily in that order). She writes while blaring music, and talks about her characters like they're real people. She lives with her husband and two kids in Folsom, California, which is also home to another Amber Garza.

Amber Garza

Books by Amber Garza

In a Quiet Town
by Amber Garza - Domestic Thriller, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Women's Fiction

Tatum hasn’t seen her daughter, Adrienne, in years, not since Tatum’s husband --- the pastor in their small California town --- all but disowned her. When she finally gathers the courage to secretly reconnect with Adrienne, Tatum is thrilled she is even willing to talk to her. But then Adrienne disappears. Tatum tries desperately to get the police or her husband to take her daughter’s disappearance seriously, but no one will listen, until a mysterious man shows up claiming to be Adrienne’s fiancé. It’s a relief to finally have someone who believes her, someone who’s trying as hard as she is to find out where Adrienne is. But can she trust that this stranger is who he says he is? And can she find her daughter before it’s too late?

A Mother Would Know
by Amber Garza - Domestic Thriller, Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Valerie has been forgetting things. Her daughter worries about her being on her own in her big Victorian house, one rumored to be haunted after a tragedy decades earlier. With few options, she asks her adult son to move home, but it’s not quite the reunion she hoped for. Hudson is taciturn, moody and frequently gone. The neighbors already hold a grudge against him, and they aren’t happy about his return. When a young woman is found murdered a block away, suspicion falls on Hudson immediately, without a shred of evidence. While Valerie fights to defend her son, she begins to wonder who she really invited into her home. It’s a horrible thing for a mother to even think...but is it possible she’s enabled a monster? A monster she is living with, alone?

When I Was You
by Amber Garza - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Kelly Medina gets a call from her son’s pediatrician to confirm her upcoming “well-baby” appointment. It’s a cruel mistake; her son left for college a year ago, and Kelly has never felt so alone. The receptionist quickly apologizes: there’s another mother in town named Kelly Medina, and she must have gotten their numbers switched. When Kelly just happens to bump into the single mother outside that pediatrician’s office, it’s simple curiosity getting the better of her. Their unlikely friendship brings Kelly a renewed sense of purpose --- taking care of this young woman and her adorable baby boy. But that friendship quickly turns to obsession, and when one Kelly disappears, the other one may know why.