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S.T. Abby

S.T. Abby is the pen name under which C.M. Owens published dark romantic suspense centered on revenge, trauma, crime, and morally complex romance. Abby is best known for the five-book Mindf*ck Series, beginning with The Risk and ending with Paint It All Red, the main body of work published under that name. ((https://www.cmowensbooks.com/other-pen-names))

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S.T. Abby was the dark-romance pen name of Christie Owens, later Christie Owens Cunningham, an Alabama writer born on March 8, 1984, who died on July 24, 2021, at age thirty-seven. Public biographies say little about her formal education; what they emphasize instead is a Southern background, a family of musicians, and a young woman who joked that singing and dancing were not her gifts. Her creativity, she said in repeated author bios, belonged to the written word. Before fiction took over, she worked for years in a plumbing-distribution warehouse, an experience later remembered as part of the grit behind her unusually fast rise. S.T. Abby did not emerge from a traditional literary institution or lecture circuit so much as from a self-directed, online publishing path built around ebooks, retailer visibility, reader groups, and a cluster of pen names. ((https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/al/cedar-bluff/christie-owens-cunningham-13075428))

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No one suspects a dead girl. They're looking for a monster. Not a girl who loves red. Not a girl in love
-The Risk
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They always want to break me, but I'm too strong now. Untouchable. Or at least I was . . . until her
-Sidetracked
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To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul
-Scarlet Angel
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To understand the monsters in the world, you have to get inside their heads
-All The Lies
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It's time to finish it all. It's time to paint it all red
-Paint It All Red

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