Deb Rogers has been a blogger, a statewide policymaker, and a nationally recognized victim advocate. As a freelance writer and business development consultant, she has worked on projects such as expanding the Listen to Your Mother Show storytelling series and a pop culture vertical for BlogHer. She has traveled from Pensacola to Key West to improve the state’s response to violent crime and spent five years in the woods as a wilderness school teacher in Crescent City. In her debut novel, Florida Woman: A Novel (Hanover Square Press), readers meet Jamie. She grew up on the beach, thrives in humidity, has weathered countless hurricanes, and now, after going viral for an outrageous crime she never meant to commit, she’s a lurid headline. Her chance to escape infamy and imminent jail time is community service at Atlas, a shelter for rescued monkeys, which seems like just the fresh start Jamie needs – until it’s not. Something sinister stirs in the woods, secrets lurk among the women who run the shelter, and her summer is ready to inspire an even stranger Florida headline than she ever could have imagined.
