Lya Badgley writes suspenseful international fiction featuring characters overcoming life-changing odds. She draws deeply from personal experience living in Europe and Southeast As...view moreLya Badgley writes suspenseful international fiction featuring characters overcoming life-changing odds. She draws deeply from personal experience living in Europe and Southeast Asia. Her life is worthy of a movie – dabbling in the music industry, opening a restaurant in Myanmar, interviewing insurgents for Human Rights Watch, and microfilming documents for the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide in Cambodia. Her first novel, The Foreigner's Confession, set in Cambodia, was released in February of 2022. Her second novel, The Worth of a Ruby, is set in Myanmar and will be released in the fall of 2023. She currently lives in Snohomish Washington and is busy writing her third novel.view less