FREE! Novella of 29,000 words--DORMANT POWER. Get it by signing up for her newsletter at Cathy's website AuthorCathyParker.com. Cathy Parker is a former journalist, attorney, and volunteer at a zoo where she enjoyed the company of one moody but lovely beluga whale (and where she also shoveled musk ox doo doo and cleaned smelly unidentifiable items out of the otters' pool). Besides her law degree, Cathy has a Master of Arts in Creative Writing. Previous excursions include trekking to see mountain gorillas in the wild in Rwanda and orangutans in the wild in Borneo. She currently lives in Costa Rica with her cat JMack.