Karla Elliott, author, left an unhappy home at eighteen, never to return. Upon receiving word from her parent's attorney, David McMullen, telling her that her parents were dead, she returned home with mixed emotions. On arrival, she learned her parents had been murdered and soon whoever did the deed wanted her dead, too. As the mystery unfolds, Karla learns that her parents were not who she thought they were and the killers came from their past. Now Karla learns who she herself really was. She steeled herself to face whatever the truth would be.

Judy is a retired registered nurse living in a small river town along the Illinois river in Illinois. She has six grown children and numerous well-loved grandchildren. She spent several years living in central Illinois and loved her laid-back lifestyle in a rural community.