N.L. Blandford

ALLi Author Member

Location: Canada

Genres: Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Skills: Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop

Crime fighter by day. Fiction writer by night.

Natasha Backs works as a fraud investigator at a financial institution. She analyzes data to detect, prevent and investigate fraud. She collaborates with Law Enforcement and Legal Counsel to present clear and concise evidence in support of criminal and civil cases.

In the literary world, Natasha is known as N.L Blandford. She is the author of The Perilous Road to Her (2021). A gripping tale of fear, longing, and determination, as one woman tries to survive the world of human trafficking in hopes of finding her sister.
N.L. Blandford followed this up with the anticipated sequels, The Perilous Road to Freedom (2021), and The Perilous Road to Him (2022).

N.L. Blandford is passionate about creating awareness around social issues through fictional stories. Her worlds and characters captivate readers while informing them of real life scenarios.

N.L. Blandford's books

The Perilous Road to Her

A gripping tale of fear, longing and determination as one woman tries to survive the world of those who also kidnapped her sister.

In The Perilous Road to Her, N.L Blandford takes us on a woman’s harrowing journey to find her missing sister.

Olivia Beaumont, a Detective in the Toronto Police Service, finds herself dreading calls from her older sister Claire. Olivia’s attempts to help Claire fight her drug addiction have only been met with refusals. Ready to walk away, and let Claire hit ‘rock bottom’, Olivia is drawn back when she learns Claire is missing.

Determined to find Claire, Olivia goes on the hunt for those who have taken her. However, the perpetrators have other plans. Suddenly, Olivia feels the prick of a needle in her neck and her world goes black. When she wakes up she has been transported into the underworld of human trafficking. Greed and sex surround her as she is forced to work for the monsters who have built an empire on the desperate and unlucky.

The Perilous Road to Freedom

In The Perilous Road to Freedom, the anticipated sequel to The Perilous Road to Her, N.L. Blandford takes us on Olivia Beaumont’s harrowing journey to find herself and her freedom.

A survivor of William Hammond’s human trafficking ring, Olivia Beaumont longs to forget the past five months. Pregnant, and scared of the ties her past will have to her future, Olivia will need more than denial to battle the monsters of her nightmares, and fate.

Right outside Olivia’s apartment door stands a past she thought was dead and gone. A past believed to have been killed with her own two hands. A past that forces her back into a world of power, greed and manipulation.

Will Olivia’s stubbornness and determination be enough for her to be able to fight the monsters around her, and those in her head, to retake her freedom?

The Perilous Road to Him

A riveting tale of a woman’s last stand against her past.
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In The Perilous Road to Him, the conclusion of The Road Series, N.L. Blandford takes us on Olivia Beaumont’s final harrowing battle to regain herself and her son.
Olivia changed her last name, moved to the small English town of Woodhaven and hoped her tortuous past only lived in her memories. However, it also resides within the walls of her house. Her son Calvin’s ice-cold stare, secrecy and fits of rage are a reflection of someone Olivia longs to forget: Calvin’s father, William Hammond. A father Calvin hadn’t known existed until a stranger, M., reveals it to him on his sixteenth birthday.

Two years later, Calvin wakes up, covered in blood, beside the body of his best friend. His partial memories tell him he is the killer. Even Olivia is unsure of his innocence. Stuck in prison; Calvin keeps replaying that horrific night over and over to try to differentiate dream from reality, in his search for the truth.

For eighteen years, M. has watched their enemies from a distance. Waiting for the perfect moment to get revenge for the annihilation of the Hammond's and their empire. The moment of reckoning has arrived and M. intends to savour every minute of it.

Can Olivia finally overcome her past? Has Calvin embraced his Hammond heritage? Will M. get the revenge they’ve meticulously planned?

The Great Blood North

Dead bodies were not on Douglas and Roberta’s Christmas lists…but they got them anyway.

Twelve days from retirement, Detective Constable Douglas MacDonald’s Christmas wish is for a peaceful, crimeless holiday season. His partner, Roberta Cameron, wishes Douglas would leave the 1980s behind.
Neither will get what they want.

When people in the quaint town of Hillford start dying at an extraordinary rate, in unusual ways, Douglas and Roberta’s holiday season is anything but peaceful. Each death gnaws at the officers. It’s all very familiar. But how?
Roberta is desperate to catch the killer before news of her involvement in the case reaches the one person she’s tried to hide from for fourteen years. But when a mysterious letter appears on her doorstep Roberta fears for her life.

Douglas’ bottomless cup of whiskey; his witty banter with Roberta; and flirtations with Ada, the crime scene technician supervisor, are what keep him sane. Mostly.

What absurd manner of death will the killer come up with next? Will Roberta’s past destroy her future? Will Douglas drink enough whiskey to forget the horrors of the holiday season?

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