Lynn Marie Jackson, author of "Unexpected Detour"

When bombs fall on Pearl Harbor, the trajectory of Faye Baxter's midwestern life takes an unexpected detour. Her fianc Steve Connor enlists in the Army, and Faye follows him to California for a spur-of-the-moment wedding just days before he ships out.

Eager to contribute to the war effort, Faye joins the workforce in San Francisco, a city awash with jobs, handsome soldiers, cheap cocktails, and nefarious secrets. When she is recruited to serve as a courier for a government intelligence agency, the assignment leads her into a web of misogyny, deception, and espionage.

Will she learn to trust her instincts, value her own opinions, and raise her voice against injustice? Or are the risks too great?

Lynn Marie Jackson has spent decades engaged in the creative process, as a copywriter and creative director in advertising, a podcast producer, a blog writer and, more recently, a novelist. Her background in theatre (MA, University of Michigan Professional Theatre Program), contributes a sense of drama in her style that has been described as “cinematic.” When not writing, she's on the hunt for inspiration: in a gallery or museum, at a performance, on a hiking trail or in a place that’s well outside her comfort zone.

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