Elle Thornton
My background as the daughter of a career Marine and my professional experience as a newspaper reporter (Massachusetts, Hawaii and Kansas), technical writer, and instructor in freshman English have helped me write two books: my debut mystery, Touch the Dead, and an earlier work, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis (YA, historical fiction).
Touch the Dead amazon.com/dp/B096W654KW is both a love story and a murder mystery. It unfolds in the steamy Florida summer of 2016. The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis amazon.com/dp/B007P73QPC is set on a military base in the segregated South of 1957.
In writing both books, I have made friends in the reading and writing communities. They have educated and inspired me, guided me on my journey and given me a needed focus. They have helped me become the writer my heart has urged me to be since I was a child. I thank them all.
“I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.”