Carrion

A young woman with a questionable past...
A family struggling to find common ground...
A murder victim with no known enemies...
Determined to overcome the dark secrets she helped reveal three years ago when she rescued a baby from a locked car and ran away, Xandra Byrd is now a student in criminology at the local community college and an accepted part of her biological family. Still, she struggles to escape the demons of her dysfunctional childhood. But when the woman who helped put her family back together is murdered, and she and her brother implicated in the crime, Xandra must return to the dark side of human nature in search of a killer. Will she solve the mystery and clear her name, or will she become the next victim?
This sequel to The Dark Side of the Rainbow is a haunting exploration of the long-term effects of trauma and a sizzling murder mystery with page-turning suspense.

J.E. Irvin is a career educator and award-winning author. Her stories have appeared in both print and online journals and magazines, including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Spark a creative anthology. Avid canoeists, Irvin and her husband live in Springboro, Ohio, on the edge of a nature park.