title: The Power of Truth: Creating Characters who are Detectives, Secret Keepers, Skeptics and More: Volume 1 in the Emotional Toolbox series for writers
author:  Laurie Hutzler 
description: LAURIE H. HUTZLER has worked as a story and character consultant to the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, talkbackTHAMES, Mersey Television/Lime Pictures and Aardman Animation Studio (UK), for Pixar University, Disney and Dreamworks (US), Endemol Netherlands (NL), RTL, Weidemann Berg and Grudy UFA (Germany), GloboMedia (Spain) and TNT (Russia) among others. She has been a consultant for Endemol and for FremantleMedia across a variety of scripted and entertainment formats in the UK, Europe and Australia. She was a staff writer and story consultant on Oscar-winner Paul Haggis NBC series, The Black Donnellys. She also worked as a consultant with Haggis on his films: In the Valley of Elah and Quantum of Solace. She consulted on two Oscar-winning foreign language films; as a story advisor on Tsotsi (South Africa) and on The Counterfeiter (Austria), as an eQuinoxe script advisor. Laurie taught screenwriting in the MFA program at the UCLA Film School for 10 years, and was an Artist-in-Residence in Television and Digital Entertainment at SMU in Dallas. She has taught for the Royal Literary Fund in Cambridge, England; The Sorbonne in Paris, France; Royal Holloway College, University of London, London England; DFFB film school in Berlin, Germany and IFS film school in Cologne, Germany.
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  A guilty secret...
  
  
  _...gives way to guilty pleasures!_
  
  
  Reformed con man Xander King and his stepsister, Poppy, both sense the
  electric chemistry between them. So when they start working together, it’s not
  long before meetings in the boardroom become steamy trysts in the bedroom! But
  Xander’s hiding a secret about the death of Poppy’s father and the guilt is
  tearing him apart. Will Xander’s dark past ruin it all, or is their red-hot
  passion fierce enough to redeem this King?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **JACKIE ASHENDEN** writes dark, emotional stories with alpha heroes who’ve
  just gotten the world to their liking only to have it blown wide apart by
  their kick-ass heroines. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband,
  the inimitable Dr. Jax, two kids and two rats. When she’s not torturing alpha
  males and their gutsy heroines she can be found drinking chocolate martinis,
  reading anything she can lay her hands on, wasting time on social media or
  being forced to go mountain biking with h