About the Author. . .

Katherine Shephard is a syndicated animal news columnist, educator,
and former political speechwriter.  Her writing has been translated into
languages spoken on all seven continents.  Critically acclaimed Fraternity
of Silence and Betrayed by Silence feature Bowie Aloysia Dog. Partial
proceeds from their sales benefits Animal Rescue.  For more on Katherine,
visit:
http://www.katherineshephard.com/Meet_Katherine/meet_katherine.html





A description of Fraternity of Silence by Katherine Shephard appears
below.

Featured Book:  Fraternity of Silence
ISBN: 0-9729071-06  
Publisher: SevenCrown Press/Seven Locks Publishing (2003)
Price: $14.95 paperback
 
Other books by this author:
Betrayed by Silence
ISBN: 1-931643-35-0
Publisher: Seven Locks Press (2004)
Hardcover - $19.95

Sources for books by this author:  
Autographed copies are available from Crime Time Books (both titles) and
Fraternity of Silence also available at Prairie Hill Books.

Both books are available from Barnes & Noble, Borders, Schulers and other book
stores, and all online booksellers.

Direct from the author: Personalized, autographed bookplates are available
from Katherine@KatherineShephard.com

E-mail: Katherine@KatherineShephard.com

Fraternity of Silence by Katherine Shephard

Book Description

The highly acclaimed genre-bender Fraternity of Silence is about a naive, young journalist who is mesmerized by
the voice of a politician. Spiked with tongue-in-cheek humor, this apolitical romantic suspense takes a hard look at
the question, "How far would you go for someone or something you love? Would you lie, cheat, murder?


Fraternity of Silence by Katherine Shephard, begins as follows:


There's a dead body in the dome and no one's talking.


March 20, 1998. Robert Bentley Larken's thirty-ninth birthday. Even a non-numeric like myself could figure out his
birth year to be 1959. Truth be told, I used a calculator. I'm the first to admit that I'm a wordsmith, not a number
cruncher. I'm also a worrier. This dead body thing ranked right up there as number one on my fret list.

I'd spent months researching Bob Larken, the former political broadcaster who was now, by hasty Senate resolution,
the new lieutenant governor of Texas. Of course there was the sticky detail of the untimely death of William Glinnis,
the former lieutenant governor. He was found dead at his desk at the capitol building in Austin.

I'd heard Larken a few months back on CNN and became mesmerized by his voice and every word he spoke.
Tonight, thanks to my best friend, Victoria, I was headed to his birthday party at the governor of Michigan's mansion
on Mackinac Island. And I had every intention of quenching my almost insatiable curiosity concerning Larken. Going
from broadcaster to lieutenant governor is quite a leap. According to Victoria, I was obsessed. Then again, that's
Victoria.

As an aide for the Michigan state legislature, Victoria's not privy to insider information - unless she's heard one of
our state's finest talk in their sleep or when they've had a bit too much to drink. Normally, a lieutenant governor from
another state is a "who cares" scenario - except when he has the means to get on air and sweet-talk the press into
spreading his own agenda. Larken's background as a well-known broadcaster gave him the inside track with the
media. They'd handled him with kid gloves ever since Billy Glinnis died of an apparent heart attack and Larken
two-stepped into his spot as lieutenant governor.

It was the kind of story to put a gleam in the eye of any investigative reporter. Glinnis had been in the peak of health
and poised to run for governor in the fall. He had no family to speak of, no autopsy was performed and no one was
talking. One day Larken was doing a brief on-air eulogy for "Billy G" and the next day he was taking the oath of
office. Victoria reported the jokes going around the Michigan rotunda: "Check your coffee, you could be next" No one
likes a dead body in the dome. Any dome.

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