While in Tampa Bay, Roy ended her accounting career and took care of her children while her husband worked.
Cross Creek Pictures acquired rights and started planning a movie adaption of Bent Road in 2012.
[9] In assembled collections, Roy's short story "Chum in the Water" was part of Tampa Bay Noir in 2020.
[10] The following year, Roy was featured in a 2021 Mystery Writers of America publication titled When A Stranger Comes To Town with "Do You Remember".
During the two years she took to write Bent Road and get it published, Roy set up social media accounts to advertise the novel.
[2][17] During her writing of The Disappearing, Roy focused on individual characters and summarized the completed content before the book was fully written.
She based the story on a criminal investigation at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and killings by Ted Bundy.