A new year

While winter’s never my favorite time of year, I do what I can to get through until spring, starting with my post New Year routine.

I shared a blog post about our little time away in a private home at the spa – just for the change of scenery.  Then once back home, I dove into the annual whole house purge, always a satisfactory space-clearing exercise. One, maybe two, more weekends  may finish it!

Work continues as a constant for me.  Just before Christmas I finished the third book in the Dragon Heart Legacy.  The Choice hits the shelves on  November 22, 2022. 11/22/22–just feels like a lucky number! Now, in another January tradition, I’m back in New York 2061 – where it’s summer—checking in on Eve, Roarke and their world.

Abandoned in Death

This case opens when a woman’s body is found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She’s clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things are very wrong—like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child.

Dr. Mira, the NYPSD’s top profiler, confirms what seems obvious to Eve: They’re dealing with a killer whose childhood involved some sort of trauma—a situation with which Eve is all too familiar. Yet the clues suggest a perpetrator who’d be roughly sixty years old, and there are no records of old crimes with a similar MO. What was the trigger that apparently reopened such an old wound and sent someone over the edge?

When Eve discovers that other young women—who physically resemble the first victim—have vanished, the clock starts ticking louder. But to solve this case she will need to find her way into a hidden place of dim light and concrete, into the distant past, and into the cold depths of a shattered mind.

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