Poet and debut novelist, Maria Kelson, discusses her powerful new release, NOT THE KILLING KIND. When her adopted son is jailed for the murder of one of her former students, a mother must decide how far she is willing to go to bring her son home. Desperate to exonerate her son, she plunges headlong into a dark web of lies from which she might not return. “Lyrically written and with finely etched characters…deftly explores the heartrending intersection between a diabolical crime and a mother’s fierce love for her son.”—Barbara Nickless, Wall Street Journal bestselling author