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.

Sexy, black lawyer, Liberty Sloane is asked to defend a deaf public relations executive accused of killing a well-known physician. Dr. Daniel Baumgard, known for his philanthropy, just opened a new shelter for abused women, although he also ran a women’s healthcare clinic that offers abortions. Madeline Kime promoted the doctor’s endeavors through her PR agency while harboring deep secrets concerning the Baumgard family, including the doctor’s son, Rhett, a congressman, and his socialite wife, Savannah. So who hated the doctor enough to stab him in the foyer of his own home? Liberty has a number of suspects on her list, including a pro-life group, not to mention the additional crimes of stolen clinic files and a blackmail scheme. To complicate matters, she has to fend off the advances of one-time boyfriend Preston Durrell, a private detective, while entertaining a new romance with the officer on the case, Sergeant Byron Keats. Worse, Liberty planned a Caribbean vacation with her BFFs, but has to postpone it in order to defend her client for murder one.

Not at Liberty

On her Facebook timeline, Savannah claimed the title of Miss Dominion in 1999, and served as the court attendant to Miss Virginia U.S.A. 2001.Before that, she cited numerous beauty pageants she participated in as a child and teen.And as the student ambassador of Highland Academy, the prestigious girls' prep school, she earned a visit to the White House to meet then-President George W. Bush.Thus, Savannah Winfield Baumgard had been bred for exactly the life she now led.


A typical upper-class, over-achieving home front, Liberty thought, where both mother and father strive to fulfill their need to be successful and visible in the right places and with the right people.All the while their children grew in the shadow of their parents' success and had their needs met basically by strangers.


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