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

In deep sleep she dreamed she was floating through the air and then soaring above and beyond the clouds.She could exist in another dimension where nebulae swirled in shimmering light, where new galaxies opened to her in the burst of a billion stars, and where suns and moons and brilliantly-hued planets could be hers for the taking.Yet she glided past it all, to reach out in that vast firmament of space with the hope she would discover an end soon, the end of time.As a scientist, Suzan knew that infinity was a concept not a reality.Something began, perhaps grew or evolved, and then ended when finished from amoebas to people.Even the Bible spoke of the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.In her search she found herself wandering through a dark vortex, a seemingly endless tunnel.The more she moved forward the more anxious she became.I'm the only one who survived, she thought with a pang of sadness and dread, but I don't want to go on like this forever and ever all alone...


Chapter 78