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

Simone smiled at the slip of paper Clarence handed her, holding it over a candle flame a moment later. It curled into a pile of ash in Julian's favorite crystal ashtray as she watched, the light warming her black eyes with pinpoint flares.


"Perfect," she said, turning to slide her polished nails over the surface of her helpless guest's arm, circling the woman where she stood-held frozen by drugs and power-slowly, patiently, tongue sliding over her ruby lips. "The experiment begun so many years ago with darling Jordan appears to have been successful. A merging of human and dervish DNA, with a touch of Nightshade for good measure, though it took far too long to mature into what I needed. Still, it appears I've found the right combination at last."


Chapter 163