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

Joffe cocked his head and gave me a thoughtful look."We won't inject you with the Progerus L50, if that's what worries you.Instead, we must make your death look accidental.We'll say you broke into our facility with the intention of stealing our valuable data.Instead, you locked yourself in the pyrolytic lab and accidentally turned on the nucleon fission generators.It can get up to 500 degrees Celsius in there, Detective Parrish.That's approximately 900 degrees Fahrenheit for your benefit, although most people expire from such intense heat and quick dehydration at about 135, give or take a degree."


Great!They were going to cook me."Tell you what," I countered."I'll give you that old clichéd line:You won't get away with it.My captain and the rest of my team know where I am, and should be here any minute."


Chapter 61