Marina Zuryck

PICS (or it never happened)

Marina Zuryck

Consider this your official introduction to someone who officially doesn't exist—at least not during business hours. Marina Zuryck is a pseudonym. The person behind the pen is a federal government employee and former U.S. Marine who wishes to remain anonymous. I write military romances where the conspiracy is real, the cast will wreck you, and the slow burn is the whole point. I also write in a totally different genre: cozy mysteries for young...

PICS

(or it never happened)

What if your dream woman walked back into your life — but you didn't recognize her?

FBI Intelligence Analyst and retired US Marine John Stankiewicz wants the impossible: a woman who can drop targets at 800 yards and still look killer in an evening gown. Ten years ago, he thought he found her — a Marine Corporal who was exactly his style. On that...

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May 22, 2026

Behind the Book: PICS (or it never happened)

Every book starts somewhere. This one started at a crossroads: part daydream and part serious effort to avoid graduate school homework.

I won't tell you where I was when it happened — officially, I don't exist during business hours. What I can tell you is that I live and work in the same world where PICS takes place. The government buildings, the bureaucratic absurdity, the jargon, the SOPs — none of that was researched. It was remembered. Sometimes it was experienced that morning. At the...