Satan's Chamber by Molly Best Tinsley and Karetta HubbardBlog Tour [Guest Post]

Today I am part of the Satan's Chamber by Molly best Tinsley and Karetta Hubbard blog tour and am happy to welcome them both on my blog. They have written a guest post to share with you and I hope you all enjoy it! Thank you for being on my blog today Molly and Karetta!

Satan's Chamber by Molly Best Tinsley and Karetta Hubbard
Junior CIA operative Victoria Pierce is posted to Khartoum, Sudan, where her father vanished five years before. Obsessed with solving the mystery of his disappearance, she uncovers a horrific plot that threatens to ignite World War III. A fast-paced spy thriller, Satan's Chambershuttles between Washington, DC, and war-torn Sudan, geo-political intrigue and ancient mysticism. It introduces a rich array of memorable characters, from Bart Wilkins, the bumbling but buff young supply officer at the Embassy, to Kendacke, one-eyed descendant of the female pharaohs, to Adam Marshall, one of the richest and most ruthless men in the world.
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Guest Post:
We are committed to expanding opportunities for women in any way we can, and crafting a spy thriller around a female protagonist, Victoria “Tory” Pierce, seemed one way to call traditional boundaries into question.   Notice that we quite deliberately introduce then dispose of the old James Bond spy-type in the prologue.  He happens to be Tory’s father who vanishes mysteriously from the streets of Khartoum, Sudan.   His unknown fate remains at the center of her personal quest when she is assigned there five years later.  And she has to come to terms with his heroic image before she can tap into her own power.
We had in mind one big difference between the traditional male spy and Tory.  Although she is physically phenomenal (she holds the Ivy League record for high hurdles) and off the charts book smart, she is also human.  She is in over her head in Sudan—a posting that came out of the blue—and her learning curve is steep.  She makes mistakes in her over-eagerness; when she gets hit, she bruises; shedding blood disturbs her; she’s naïve about men.   Which is all to say, she has an internal arc in the novel that parallels the external action.  She doesn’t just run around kicking butt, she also grows from an immature loner, who doesn’t know where to place her trust, to a proficient team player, finally accomplishing a rescue worthy of her father and averting an horrific sequence of events that might have triggered war on a global scale.
It’s worth noting that Tory shares the stage in Satan’s Chamberwith two other extraordinary women.  Her godmother and mentor, Maud Olson, is the first female Director of Intelligence at the Agency, having cannily made her way through a sexist bureaucracy with her integrity intact.  From her position stateside, she is connecting the dots to identify U. S. involvement in these events.  Then there is the Sudanese populist leader, Kendacke, named for her ancestor, an ancient female pharaoh who rallied the Nubians to beat back their Egyptian oppressors.  Today, this modern Kendacke pursues a similar mission—to unite the disparate tribes of Sudan in order to resist their own homicidal government, which is intent on wiping them out in order to access the oil deposits lying under their land.  
About Molly Best Tinsley:Air Force brat Molly Best Tinsley taught on the civilian faculty at the United States Naval Academy for twenty years and is the institution’s first professor emerita. Author of My Life with Darwin (Houghton Mifflin) and Throwing Knives (Ohio State University Press), she also co-authored Satan’s Chamber (Fuze Publishing) and the textbook, The Creative Process (St. Martin’s). Her fiction has earned two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sandstone Prize, and the Oregon Book Award. Her plays have been read and produced nationwide. She lives in Oregon, where she divides her time between Ashland and Portland.
About Karetta Hubbard:
As a businesswoman and entrepreneur, Karetta Hubbard has more than twenty-five years of experience in consulting, strategic management, and organizational change for companies throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan. Having recently turned to literary endeavors, Ms. Hubbard credits her five grandchildren as her inspiration and encouragement to put pen to paper.
As an active member of the Washington, DC community, Ms. Hubbard has held appointments at the Small Business Advisory Council (SBA), the Tyson Business and Professional Women Foundation (BPW), and the Fairfax County Democratic Committee. Ms. Hubbard attended the University of Virginia and received her B.A. degree from George Mason University. She also attended Catholic University’s Graduate School in Social Work.