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

Only a few blocks away, as it turned out. Gerri climbed out a few minutes later, still unsettled. But the drive gave her time to order her thoughts, to explain some things away. Even while her instincts gruffly informed her she was an idiot.


So be it. Gerri pushed her way through the glass doors to Beauty, Inc., the grand lobby artfully decorated, walls covered in fifteen foot posters of gorgeous women slathered in makeup, giant "You're Beauty, Inc. Beautiful" written in swirly font at the top of each one.


Officer Candice Mills spotted her where she waited by a plain, white door on the far left, gesturing for Gerri to join her. Disorientation made her feel slow and tired. Gerri clenched herself against her unease, wondering if she really was losing it, before marching past Mills and into the corridor beyond.


Chapter 104