Marva Dale is the pen name for author Debra McReynolds.  Retired from the public relations field, Debra now spends her free time indulging in her passion for writing.  "I used to fill my school notebooks with stories," Debra relates, "and then add artwork to go along with them.  My second grade teacher, Mrs. Daley, predicted that I would be a writer one day."
A fan of the mystery genre, she enjoys crafting tales with a twist of suspense, a touch of romance, and a bit of humor. 
Debra and her husband, Dale, make their home in El Paso, Texas, with their dog, cats and rabbits.

Dr. Suzan Dwyer specializes in blood disorder research and maintains her own laboratory in the Washington, D.C. area. But she’s not prepared to deal with a new patient named Charles Lambert who says he’s aging by the minute and needs Suzan to help him discover a way to reverse the process through her blood research. Suzan hesitates to believe the story Charles tells her. Yet when he suddenly disappears, Suzan tracks him down and meets his wife, Ellen Lambert, a beautiful, alluring, and enigmatic woman who harbors a deep, disturbing secret. Suzan is drawn into Ellen’s world of mysticism, fantasy, lust and desire, and believes Ellen when she says that Charles has suddenly died overseas. Succumbing to Ellen’s charms, Suzan decides to give up her old life, one that she has shared with her partner, Dr. Davis Breen, for five years. As she embarks on a tempestuous affair with Ellen and listens to her incredible history, Suzan is drawn deeper into the woman’s strange but exciting world, one that might possibly include murder. Soon Suzan must decide if she wants what Ellen wishes to give her—life everlasting… Even when such a life comes at a terrible cost. 


Blood of the Gods

She should have felt revulsion, loathing and fear, but oddly, Suzan felt excited, stimulated and bursting with curiosity.Curled in Ellen's embrace, she listened to the woman's incredible story of everlasting life and of all the people down through history who Ellen had loved...and lost.It was a fantastic revelation, one that frightened Suzan.What if she never grasped the enormity of her Ellen's admission that she had the power to make others live forever just as she lived century after century?But quelling her fear, Suzan listened intently to all that Ellen revealed, including the fact that Charles had not died in Europe of disease, but had died of natural old age, the process accelerated once the combination of elixir and blood no longer provided the capacity to sustain his life from the day of his death and rebirth: an everlasting thirty years old.


Chapter 64