Shred of Evidence

It wasn’t that he was a bad man by his own lights. But his parents had died in a car accident when he was very young, and he’d been raised by a grandfather who believed a woman’s place was in the home. Raising her children, cooking and cleaning for her man.

When we got married my parents weren’t happy about it. They said he was older than I was, and more set in his ways. They didn’t believe he’d make me happy. I was young, I saw his certainty about life as strength. So I married him—and found out very quickly that they’d been right.

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I have had over 180 stories professionally published since 1991. This includes crime/mystery stories in Australian Women’s Forum, Murderous Intent, Whispering Willows Mysteries Anthology, Genrezone, Blast, Mooreffooc, Detective Mystery Stories, and in a wide variety of other North American and English Magazines as well as work in DAW anthologies Space Opera, Catfantastic III, IV and V, Merlin, and Further Adventures of Xena: Warrior Princess (Ace).

I have also had a number of books published, including but not limited to: The Key of the Keplian, this appeared mid-1995 from Warner Aspect and continues to sell. Ciara’s Song was published by Warner in July ‘98. TOR Books recently published Beastmaster’s Ark as a June 2002 hardcover (paperback July 2003) and the sequel, Beastmaster’s Circus, appears in hardcover in March 2004. Most recently TOR has also accepted two fantasy novels, The Duke’s Ballad (sequel to my 1998 fantasy, Ciara’s Song) and Silver May Tarnish, a stand-alone fantasy.