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 Fiction River: Pulse Pounders, 2015.
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 Fiction River: Pulse Pounders, 2015.