The major influence in my writing,was my father as he always had a book for me to read. And he told me that I could always do better, and never take second best. I graduated from the school of hard knocks. That is where I got my story line, as that is the training for life. My great wish is to have all my books on the best sellers list, and to be listed as the author who loves her chihuahuas and chows dogs to play with. Thanks My book Shattered Images by Victoria Lane Born to a strong-willed and cruel mother with whom she would be in constant conflict and a passive father whom she adored. Jennifer spent much of her childhood away in a convent school, returning home as a teenager. Wavering between fear and rebellion at her mother's rigid standard, Jennifer secretly meets her first love, a handsome marine. But fate steps in to part them. Shattered Images follows Jennifer through a life filled with tragedy. But through-out it all she has a dream; to become a writer. A compelling question, answered in the final pages of Shattered Images.