Audra Martino was an innocent, drawn to causes to “save things”, as one fellow apprentice said. What happened to her after she left the gallery where her work was exhibited for the first time? And what happened to her sketchbook?
There are secrets in the dark, and before Pola is done she’ll go deep into more than one.
Roberta Rogow got her start writing for Star Trek fanzines in the mid-1970's. She mostly writes historical fiction, although she sometimes twists the history. Her most recent stories take place in a Manhattan Island that was settled by Spanish Moors instead of by Dutch Traders: Last of the Mohegans meets Arabian Nights, with a Danish accent.
Roberta retired from a 37-year career as a Children's Librarian in 2008. The Pola Drach mysteries are a return to her SF fanfic roots. She now lives in New Jersey, and spends her time going to science fiction and mystery conventions when she is not writing mysteries or singing “filk” (science fiction folk music).