I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn.

When transsexual starlet Aisling is murdered, Detective Geraldine Meyers is assigned the case. With help from medical examiner Dr. Rachel Hunter, Gerri realizes this is no ordinary killing. While she might not want to call in over-eager anthropologist Dr. Kinsey DanAllart, the detective is forced to trust her friend's expertise in symbology, even though doing so means admitting "weird" things might be happening in Silver City. As the three friends unravel the mystery of the dancer's death, one thing is made absolutely apparent--something isn't right in their new hometown. And someone is doing everything they can to make sure the truth doesn't come out.

In Silver City, sometimes friendship can be murder.

Nightshade Cases

The woman huddled in the darkness, weeping as her world spun around her. The drug he'd given her made her nauseated, but she couldn't muster the energy to vomit, to roll over, to move aside from her shaking shoulders.


The black, humid air engulfed her, devoured her as she sobbed silently into the quiet, limbs shaking beyond her control. She had no idea how long she'd been here, trapped in an iron cage, naked back pressed to coarse straw scratching until her fair skin bled. The stench of her own waste was a constant, as familiar now as the ache in her flesh, the nausea. And the fear of his return.


Chapter 81