Please help me welcome Sharee Stover to the blog this week. She has a really unique way that she gained inspiration for her new book, Untraceable Evidence. First, let’s hear a little bit about the book.

Someone’s after a deadly weapon…

and only she can stop them.

It’s undercover ATF agent Randee Jareau’s job to make sure the government’s 3-D printed “ghost gun” doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. So when someone goes after scientist Ace Steele, she must protect him…before she loses the undetectable weapon and its creator. But with a mole inside Ace’s company and everyone a suspect, this assignment could become Randee’s last.

Sounds like an edge-of-the-seat kind of read. What inspired you to write it?

I’m always learning and taking in possible story ideas. So, in a one-day Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms writing conference I attended, I took copious notes. The compilation of that conference and a lot of research birthed my three-book ATF Heroes series releasing in May, November, and the spring of 2021. 

The idea for the first book in the series, Untraceable Evidence, came as a result of research regarding 3D printer guns. An article in USA Today was especially helpful as it specifically named ATF agents using the blueprint model posted online by Cody Wilson for a 3D printer gun. 

The ATF agents used different grades of resin at a cost of $80-$170 in materials and it took 10-18 hours to print the weapon parts. The cheaper resin resulted in the gun shattering after the first shot, but once they increased the grade of resin, the gun held after eight successful rounds. The Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 specifically requires guns to have metal components because that makes them detectable via metal detectors. 

Believe it or not, reading the Act triggered (no pun intended) my thinking. 

What would happen if a completely plastic gun with no metal parts was developed? How easily would the weapon be transported, smuggled into schools, airports, court rooms, etc.? Using the information gleaned in my research, I also learned frangible ammunition or disintegrating bullets exists and leaves no bullet casings. 

Thus, the WHAT IF began for Untraceable Evidence. Scientist Ace Steele is hired by the ATF to develop a top-secret project named Ghost. Ghost is a 3D printer gun using frangible ammunition, and the components are comprised entirely of plastic, making the gun untraceable via metal detectors. The project is confidential, but a mole has leaked the information to a local militia, and they will do anything to get Project Ghost.  

Colorado native Sharee Stover lives in Nebraska with her real-life-hero husband, three too-good-to-be-true children, and a ridiculously spoiled dog. A self-proclaimed word nerd, she loves the power of the written word to ignite, transform, and restore. She writes Christian romantic suspense combining heart-racing, nail-biting suspense and the delight of falling in love all in one. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, Sisters in Crime, and Nebraska Writer’s Guild. Sharee is a triple Daphne du Maurier finalist, winner of the 2017 Wisconsin Fabulous Five Silver Quill Award, and her debut, Secret Past, won Best First Book in the 2019 National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards. When she isn’t writing, Sharee enjoys reading, crocheting and long walks with her obnoxiously lovable German Shepherd. Visit her at www.shareestover.com.

Social media and buy links:

Website: https://shareestover.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shareestover/

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/sharee-stover

Buy link for Untraceable Evidence: https://amzn.to/2SrYfhn

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Thanks so much for joining us, Sharee!