Mariah Marie Carter

Mariah Marie Carter plays a dual role in the Beautiful Dream Series. Sometimes, we see her as a successful writer. Others, she plays a police officer with Gainesville’s Police Department. She’s a beautiful woman, inside and out, who suffers with some severe mental health issues. Read on to learn more about Mariah and why people say she’s so relatable. 

Mariah Marie, our successful author in the Beautiful Dream Series, plays an author when I really feel like showcasing mental health and abuse because she’s been through a lot. She was sexually mollested. She’s dealt with mental and emotional abuse from people who should have been her champions. So, while she throws herself into her work, she still has her demons to deal with. And while she tries, she sometimes succumbs to the darkness. 

Mariah Carter, same woman, same background, is a cop with Gainesville Police Department. She doesn’t deal much with anxiety and mental health when I write her as a cop because, often, someone else in the story is dealing with that and she’s more of a background character. But her story is still the same.

I wanted to show her strength. The fact that she fights her demons every single day of her life and still manages to survive. When Loving You came out, there was such overwhelming support for it. It took me by surprise because Mariah is based on me. How could so many people relate to her? She’s so flawed. So messed up. 

But people truly loved her because she’s real. They didn’t view her as messed up. They viewed her as strong and beautiful Someone able to survive despite what she’s been through and fights through. I was even told that she was someone that readers look up to because she’s gone through the same things they have. 

I’m so happy that I was able to write a character that people truly loved and believed in. That they could look up to. I love that people are able to relate to her and look to her as inspiration for their own lives. When they are feeling down, they look to her to help them feel better. They look to her to make them feel stronger when they are at their weakest point.

I’m very interested to know how you feel about Mariah. Tell me in the comments below!