About this ebook
Delilah Thorn is stuck in Atlanta engaged in diplomatic work and is desperate to get back into the field. She’s had no word from her fellow agents for weeks and there’s nothing she can do for them from afar. Now a prominent Confederate family is looking for assistance, and wants her to find their missing daughter. Thorn will have to go against orders to sneak back into enemy territory on a mission of mercy, unsanctioned by superiors and worth a court martial, even if she succeeds.
Both women will have to face their deepest fears and come together in an act that will help forge the fate of nations.
About the author
Marella is a native St. Louisan who always loved reading and, from a young age, thought about being a writer. Her fourth grade teacher helped spur this idea, as she had the class write a story every day. Marella’s early masterpieces were stories that went like this:
"I woke up when I heard a bonk. I looked out the window and saw a saucer. A blue-green-purple man looked out. He only had two legs."
One wonders how many legs Marella’s fourth grade self thought blue-green-purple men in saucers should have if this one were remarkable for “only” having two.
It wasn’t until she was graduating from college that Marella figured writing ought to be a paying proposition. She started submitting her stories to magazines and thus began her personal collection of rejection letters. That started to change in 1991 once she was accepted into the Alternate Historians, a writers group that had begun to have a bit of success.
Several short story sales and the two-book sale of Sky Knife and Serpent and Storm to Tor followed within a few years. Under the name Kenyon Morr, fellow Alternate Historian Mark Sumner and Marella co-authored two novels for Boulevard Books, Kingdom of Sorrow and See No Weevil.
Since then, Marella has worked for educational publishers, sold an essay and other short stories, and collected even more rejections. When not writing or preparing works for publication for Word Posse, Marella works as an adjunct instructor at Webster University; volunteers at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site; sits on the Board of Directors of a cemetery (yes, really); is a Master Naturalist; has become a cricket fan; and enjoys living with her husband and pets. She travels whenever she can possibly afford it.
She wants to hear your paranormal story! Go to her website at www.writnfool.com and click on the "My Paranormal Story" link.
