The Loser Mystery series, like my others, has a definite character arc. Loser begins with significant issues in Killing Silence and works through them a bit in Book 2, Killing Memories. In Book 3, Killing Despair, we learn how her suffering came about and who caused it.

While Loser isn't completely healed at the end of this entry, we can see that she is making progress. She may someday be fully back to being Beth, able to leave her Loser persona in the alleys of Richmond. 

My publisher wanted to continue the series, but I felt that would be pointless. If you haven't figured it out yet from the variety of my work, I write what matters to me. I can't keep churning out new adventures for old characters if there isn't a good reason for it in my own head.

I was never thrilled with the publisher's choices for the original covers for the series (pictured below.) While I appreciated the idea of three faces of the same woman, and I liked the first one, with Loser's face partially hidden, the other two never resonated with me. When I got the rights back, I did new covers with a theme of movement. In Killing Silence, Loser is sitting, stuck in her muddled mind. In Killing Memories, she's walking, perhaps in the woods at her childhood home. In Killing Despair, she's running, from danger, to be sure, but also toward a return to normalcy.

Killing Despair is the culmination of Loser's return to herself. She discovers what happened to her family and comes to terms with what that did to her. This book is available here for $2.99.