Orcas Intermission

Description

Reeling from her recruitment as a confidential informant in the island’s ongoing more-than-murder investigation, Cam is flummoxed by an escalating avalanche of secrets divulged by everyone from her boss, Lisa Cannon, to her friend Paige Berry, and the rakishly charming JoJo Brixton, among others. No one and nothing is what it seemed; and as each new revelation leads to even deeper ones, it becomes a struggle to focus on her fabulous new day job: bringing her recently completed play, Salon Confidential, to the stage! In all the chaos, Cam nearly misses the one thing that’s so clear to everyone around her: how much she herself is changing.In this fast-moving, humorous, heartbreaking and heartwarming final volume of The Chameleon Chronicles, Cam faces more than one old nemesis, a slew of surprising new challenges, the long arm of the law, and her innermost fears…as a truly unforgettable opening night draws ever nearer.

About Laura Gayle

Laura Gayle is the nom de plume of two friends who love to collaborate.Shannon Page was born on Halloween night and raised without television on a back-to-the-land commune in northern California. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Interzone, Fantasy, Black Static, Tor.com, and many anthologies. Books include the contemporary fantasy series The Nightcraft Quartet; fiction collection Eastlick and Other Stories; personal essay collection I Was a Trophy Wife; hippie horror novel Eel River; cozy mystery series the Chameleon Chronicles, co-written with Karen G. Berry; and Our Lady of the Islands, co-written with the late Jay Lake, as well as a forthcoming sequel co-written with Mark J. Ferrari. Her many editing credits include the essay collection The Usual Path to Publication and the anthologies Witches, Stitches & Bitches and Black-Eyed Peas on New Year’s Day: An Anthology of Hope. Shannon is a longtime yoga practitioner, has no tattoos (but she did recently get a television), and lives on lovely, remote Orcas Island, Washington, with her husband, author and illustrator Mark Ferrari. Visit her at www.shannonpage.net.Karen G. Berry has lived in or near Portland, Oregon, for forty years, but remains solidly Midwestern in outlook and recipes, which is why you never find any of hers in the recipe sections of the Chameleon Chronicles. She has one wonderful husband, three wonderful daughters, two wonderful grandsons, and several thousand books. A marketing writer by day, Karen is a prize-winning poet and has published seven novels and one nonfiction book, Shopping at the Used Man Store. As a committed underachiever, Karen finds all of this fairly amazing. Visit her at www.karengberry.mywriting.network/.