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.

In the 22nd Century, Los Angeles Detective Cadye Parrish has been called in to help in the murder case of Gavin McAllister who lived on Terre Celeste, the wealthy second tier, and who worked for the Senesco Institute. Digging deeper, she finds a terrible plot involving an age-inducing drug produced by the institute and the unwitting victims of the conspiracy who all danced at the Midnight Lace Club. During her investigation, she meets Dane Merrick, the public relations man for the foundation. And now as she becomes intimate with Dane, Cadye finds she just might be falling for a mass murderer.


Stratus Fear

I joined her and made a frank appraisal of the scene I witnessed behind the window.Suspended in midair a long glass and metal tube took up half of the stark room. Inside the cocoon-like structure, a person laid prone, an old man by the looks of him, naked except for a mesh band across his middle.I turned to Libby and frowned."You say, this Mr. Grover started out as a thirty-year-old and somehow turned into an old man overnight."


"Yes, and he continues to age.A pack of specialists have already examined him but they can't form a logical diagnosis.So, they called us to see if we could do anything."


I couldn't imagine what we could offer over and above what the medical specialists had already done, but I stuck to the routine."Are you sure the wife made a positive identification?She swears this man is her husband?"


Chapter 23