The Promise Box
by Vanessa Craddock
Smart Girls Publishers

From the very beginning when Bernadette steps out of the cab on Broadway in East Baltimore to the end when she is left on her knees aiming a gun and wondering whether to fire, she knows the secrets that have bonded her with her sisters are about to explode and destroy their lives forever. Sexy, smart and fiercely determined, Bernadette has never let anything interfere with her plans to reach the success she has craved as a computer science expert, and nothing has until she gets an anonymous letter tipping her off that the loving family she has adored is anything but. When she discovers that the death of her beloved sister was not due to pneumonia, as she has been told over the years, but to murder, her life is thrown into a tailspin and she leaves no stone unturned as she puts all her skills to the test of a lifetime.

Vanessa Craddock is a certified high school teacher, instructor, private consultant on retirement benefits for Federal employees, and a writer. Though she travels frequently to conduct retirement seminars, she works primarily in the Washington DC/Virginia area and always makes time to write.

She is a graduate of Morgan State University where she received her undergraduate degree in English, and of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, where she received her Master’s Degree in Teaching, graduating number one in the class in her school of study.

Writing is Vanessa’s passion, and she has been at it since elementary school where she wrote short stories and plays that she and her sister performed. Over the years, she put writing aside to focus on her career and raise two children, but the creative bug never left. An avid reader, she’s always dreamed of writing a novel. On her daily train commute to Washington DC, she penned The Promise Box. Self-publishing was the quickest opportunity to realize her lifelong passion, so she established SmartGirls Publishers. The Promise Box is her first novel, but she has already completed her second, a mystery called Deadly Desires, and is hard at work on her third. Vanessa resides in Maryland with her husband and family.

A favorite quote she recently came across sums up the way she believes life should be lived… “Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid…” You have to believe, and she always has.

Contact the Author: author@vanessacraddock.com