Smoke

After recognizing a killer at the law office where she is employed, Jen is on the run from Vancouver, British Columbia, to the Interior city of Kelowna. BC. There, she hopes to hide out and stay alive long enough to come up with a survival plan. Her friend, Constance, runs the local contemporary art gallery, and Constance is busy getting ready for the opening of environmental artist, Matt Collier's newest show. As if Collier's opening wasn't keeping her busy enough, Constance's boss saddles her with Chad Jones, a new gallery intern. Every time Constance is in proximity with the ruggedly attractive newcomer, it's not art that is on her mind. Even without the attraction she's struggling to control, Chad's arrival complicates an already stressful time for Constance, because Matt Collier's show is probably the most important moment of her career. Having Collier at the gallery is a coup, even if it means dealing with protestors on the doorstep and death threats on the phone, and Constance needs to keep her mind on the work at hand. When a local community patrol officer discovers the body of a badly beaten woman with ties to solar energy behind the gallery, local police worry there might be a connection to Collier's opening. When the resemblance between the dead woman and Constance are observed, authorities wonder if the death was a case of mistaken identity. Was Constance the killer's intended target? The Canadian art scene and pipeline debate collide in this novella, and lives are forever changed. Smoke keeps readerts glued to the page, desperate to know what happens next.