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

INT. - 10th STREET ANIMAL RESCUE - EVENING


The hallway was dark, quiet, though animals stirred behind the door to her left, leading to the cages where the strays and drop offs were housed. They sounded as though they'd been woken, though there were only a few yipping barks here and there, not the full-throated cacophony of a disturbance.


Either they knew well who was with them or they were being kept quiet somehow. Food, maybe? Gerri glanced to her right, into the front lobby of the shelter, unsurprised to find it empty. Another quick look over her shoulder showed Ray and Kinsey at the door, staying out of her way. She exhaled quickly in relief before reaching for the pull to the main shelter.


Light flickered on, beaming out from under the door. Proof enough someone was here. All of her nerves fled at last, her training and the innate instinct she carried washing away her stress and pulling her, as always in situations like this, into perfect calm with a hint of excitement.


Chapter 108