HAVING written dozens of fantasy novels, best-selling author Sherrilyn Kenyon knows a thing or two about crafting the twists and turns of a thrilling plot. Unfortunately, it seems that she’s also now versed in what it’s like to be at the center of one. According to a newsletter she sent to fans earlier this week, she was allegedly the victim of someone trying to poison her.

“Again, as many of you know, one of the reasons I had to cut back on my appearances and stop doing my annual fan convention a couple of years ago was that out of the blue I was viciously and painfully struck down by a bevy of strange, inexplicable and baffling symptoms,” Kenyon wrote. “This past spring and summer, after new rounds of testing, my doctor finally learned the cause of it all: Someone close to me was tainting my food.”

The author of the popular Dark-Hunter series said that earlier in 2018 she had split from her husband of 28 years, Lawrence Kenyon. She suspects him of being behind the poisoning and said she alerted the authorities and has filed a lawsuit against him and Kerrie Plump, a woman initially hired as a tutor for their children.

In the 95-page lawsuit Kenyon’s publicist sent Yahoo, the writer says beginning in 2014, she began feeling inexplicably ill. She later experienced hair loss, bone loss, disorientation, nausea, facial swelling, and other troubling symptoms.

“Rest assured, I am much better today as my symptoms have dramatically improved since this past March when it all came to light and the authorities were notified,” Kenyon said in the newsletter. “But I and the authorities are still trying to determine who all had a hand in doing this to me as a number of people who handled my food then are all gone, and to find out what, if any damage might be permanent from what I unknowingly ingested while they were around.”

She also claims that Plump has been posting in the author’s various social media sites and tried to get fans to send hate mail to her publishers. Kenyon says that some of the trouble Plump stirred caused some of her novels’ publishing dates to be pushed, while contracts for others were canceled.

After receiving this newsletter, many of Kenyon’s fans, who call themselves Menyons, have rallied to support her.

(SD-Agencies)