Like in The Great Gatsby, where he was looking across the water and seeing the light. A lot of the reviewers or book bloggers that have talked about it have all said they thought Nikki was going to come back, but Nikki was that eternal thing you're searching for in life that you don't ever get. The story was about the siblings, and when all three siblings are dead, the story's over. Of course she dies - the woman had just shot her husband and Portia. I thought the ending was very clear that Beth dies. But at that point I knew she was coming back and she was, at the very least, in on it, and then I just decided these siblings are all evil and they're all going to die. There was that intended misdirection of when she leaves Eddie and leaves the road trip and you're supposed to think Eddie killed her. Beth didn't know it at the time, she was just saying it because she was annoyed. The very first chapter of the book Beth was talking to Krista, and Beth says, "When the killing starts, she goes first." It all ties back to that in the end, that Krista was the problem the whole time. I get up each day and I write first thing in the morning, and I discover at that point what happens next. I discover the story the same way a reader will discover the story. What I like about not plotting is not knowing what comes next. It was completely predictable, and it clearly did not work out.
It turns out when I plot books, I telegraph them. I wrote a book in between this and My Lovely Wife that we threw out. My editor and I fine-tuned it a little, and then I wrote the book and it was terrible. After My Lovely Wife I had to write my second book, and I had to submit a synopsis for the book to my editor. All I saw was like massacre in the desert in my head. I didn't know how it was going to happen. I didn't know who would be left standing. I had in my mind a very vague idea of the ending, I knew it would end in the desert, and I knew there was going to be mass bloodshed in the desert.
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