On this episode of Complicated Conversations we welcome Ashley Winstead, the critically acclaimed author of In My Dreams I Hold A Knife and The Last Housewife, to discuss her new novel, Midnight Is The Darkest Hour. Her latest is a gothic Southern thriller about a killer haunting a small Louisiana town, where two outcasts—the preacher's daughter and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks—hold the key to uncovering the truth.
We had an incredible conversation with Ashley about how her thrillers are an excavation into her past, this time an exploration of intoxicating teenage first love. We chat about the Twilight series and how Bella and Edwaed inspired the relationship between Ruth and Everett; how she gave herself the permission and freedom to tell the story how she wanted to tell it; the power of teenage girls; transformation and transcendence; hunger and ambition; and how the duality inherent in her astrological sign comes out in everything she does. 
Midnight Is The Darkest Hour is out now! Buy it, read it, share it!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.