Lonely Dancer

by C.J. Stevens

Detective Morgan Olsen is smart and she lives by her own rules. Youngest Homicide Detective on the force, promoted over other, more senior men, she closes her better and faster. That does mean the brass or her fellow cops LIKE her for it. Her lieutenant would just as soon he had no women at all in his squad, more or less one that resists by her very nature being slowed down by him.What no one can deny is that Morgan is the best. Her partner, Sam Parker is still adapting to Morgan's free thinking, open minded ways. Morgan kicks his Southern, good old boy ass when he needs it, which is frequently. Despite their differences in upbringing and the fact the Morgan was promoted over him, Sam likes being her partner, even if it is not always easy.Morgan and Sam are called out on a suspicious death. Sally LeBlanc is found dead in her Montrose house, and her body was moved after she died. As they unravel Sally's life, they discover a woman who was alone. In her job as an exotic dancer, she was singularly successful which put her in a class by herself. In her private life Sally was close to no one. Sally seemed to have no enemies, but she had no friends either.Morgan sees uncomfortable parallels to her own life, but Morgan being Morgan, will not rest until she solves the mysteries around Sally's death... And her life

255 pages, Paperback

Published February 9, 2019

About the author

CJ, not C.J.

In 2000, there was a house rule for a while, and every Thursday even, CJ was locked away from the kids and cats and wrote 'Lonely Dancer'. Then did nothing with it. Novel complete, back to life. Cats and kids do not understand writer isolation one tiny bit.

In 2010 the idea came to create Vampires that could exist. Not that were likely to exist, but that at least followed the rules of natures and physics. Reading many Genre romances to calibrate what those stories were about and building the rules to the Hypernatural world, 'Naked Came the Vampire' was written, followed by' Siren Song', 'Conclave', and 'Purity' in rapid succession. The first drafts were put away and another story about a superhero was written along the same lines: trying to come up with a way that a superhero could violate all the laws of physics, as they do. Not counting Batman. Mostly.

Then IT called with a five year, 70 hour a week project and all writing ceased.

That project over led to dusting off the Hypernaturals and getting them out there. Because what Science Fiction geek doesn't like a good Vampire Romance?

That led to pulling out Lonely Dancer, which went out the door after editing, and garnered the first five star review. Encouraged, next came 'The Law of Unintended Consequences' set a few months after the events of 'Lonely Dancer'

I am a Straight Ally and that also influences the topics in the worlds of CJ