 "When She Flew", Shortridge's fourth novel, NAL Nov. 2009, was inspired by true events in Portland, OR, and tells the story of an Iraq-war vet raising his young daughter in the woods, and the policewoman who finds them and must find the courage to break the rules to help them.In 2013, Shortridge's fifth novel, "Love Water Memory", will be published by Gallery Books, a division of Simon and Schuster.Inspired by a news story of an amnesiac and his fiancé, Shortridge wrote a fictional account of a woman who must become like a detective to remember who she is and what happened to her while grappling with a fiancé and the life she left behind.