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

Interestingly enough, I heard those same words spoken earlier when I interviewed the five employees Dane had hustled my way.Both the men and the women used similar terminology when describing their dead colleague.And now the CEO offered almost the same vernacular. Naturally it got me wondering about everyone who worked here.It seemed as if they had rehearsed their responses just in case the police came a-calling, which inevitably they did.I would have loved to catch a glimpse of that office memo, the one that advised personnel to remember these words:intelligent, career-driven, shrewd, motivated, generous and all-around good guy.


"As a loyal and productive employee," Joffe continued, "we naturally found it fitting to assume and abide by his funerary plans, and we had him cremated this morning."


Chapter 21