Melody wakes to the scent of amber and vanilla—the cloying scent her ex-lover wore.

The ex-lover who escaped the psychiatric hospital…and kidnapped Melody’s daughter.

Called “a nail-biter” by Publisher’s Weekly, “The Scent of Amber and Vanilla” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Crime & Mystery 2016. It first appeared in Pulse Pounders (Fiction River).