But my mother taught me the most important lesson of all.
Forgiveness sets you free.
Dear Reader:
This Special Edition of Whale Song has been dedicated to the memory of my brother Jason Anthony Kaye who was brutally murdered on January 23rd, 2006. He was killed a week after his 28th birthday.
When the police discovered his body lying in a cold dark alley, they immediately identified him and set out to track down his next of kin. First, they called a number of Kayes listed in the phone book. That led them nowhere.
In the end, the police tracked me down through this novel―Whale Song. When they asked Jay’s friends about relatives in the area, they said Jason had a sister named Cheryl who lived on the south side of Edmonton. They didn’t know my full name, but they were told I had written ‘a book about whales’.
The marvels of the internet eventually brought the police to Whale Song. And Whale Song ultimately, but sadly, brought two homicide investigators to my door.
Jason was my baby brother―a kind soul who did not deserve to die, especially in such a way. He had his whole life ahead of him and although he struggled with his demons, he had found peace and acceptance amongst his friends―the Porch Monkeys.
The homeless and downtrodden are people we pass on the streets of almost any city. People we see, but do not see. Those without faces or names. The forgotten and misunderstood.
The lost.
The forgiven…
“Forgiveness sets you free…”
To read more about Jason and the Porch Monkeys, please check out the site in his honor:
www.jaysporchmonkeys.com
Check out Cheryl Kaye Tardif's terrifying thriller…
THE RIVER
How far do we go until we’ve gone too far?
The South Nahanni River has a history of mysterious deaths, disappearances and headless corpses, but it may also hold the key to humanity’s survival―or its destruction.
Seven years ago, Del Hawthorne’s father and three of his friends disappeared near the Nahanni River and were presumed dead. When one of the missing men stumbles onto the University grounds, alive but barely recognizable and aging before her eyes, Del is shocked. Especially when the man tells her something inconceivable. Her father is still alive!
Gathering a group of volunteers, Del travels to the Nahanni River to rescue her father. There, she finds a secret underground river that plunges her into a technologically advanced world of nanobots and painful serums. Del uncovers a conspiracy of unimaginable horror, a plot that threatens to destroy us all. Will humanity be sacrificed for the taste of eternal life?
And at what point have we become…God?
“Tardif specializes in mile-a-minute potboiler mysteries.” ―Edmonton Sun
ISBN: 9781412062299 (trade paperback)
ISBN: 978-0-9865382-3-0 (ebook)
Available in bookstores and online retailers, including Amazon, Chapters and KoboBooks.com
Book 1 in the Divine series by Cheryl Kaye Tardif…
Divine Intervention
CFBI agent Jasmine McLellan is assigned a hot case—one that requires the psychic abilities of the PSI Division, a secret government agency located in the secluded town of Divine, BC.
Jasi leads a psychically gifted team in the hunt for a serial arsonist―a murderer who has already taken the lives of three innocent people. Unleashing her gift as a Pyro-Psychic, Jasi is compelled toward smoldering ashes and enters the killer's mind. A mind bent on destruction and revenge.
Jasi's team, consisting of Psychometric Empath and profiler, Ben Roberts, and Victim Empath, Natassia Prushenko, is led down a twisting path of dark, painful secrets. Brandon Walsh, the handsome, smooth-talking Chief of Arson Investigations joins them in a manhunt that takes them across British Columbia―from Vancouver to Kelowna, Penticton and Victoria.
While impatiently sifting through the clues that were left behind, Jasi and her team realize that there is more to the third victim than meets the eye. Perhaps not all of the victims were that innocent. The hunt intensifies when they learn that someone they know is next on the arsonist's list.
The case heats to the boiling point as Jasi steps out of the flames…and into the fire. And in the heat of early summer, Agent Jasi McLellan discovers that a murderer lies in wait…much closer than she imagined.
ISBN: 9781412035910 (trade paperback)
ISBN: 978-0-9865382-2-3 (ebook)
Available in bookstores and online retailers, including Amazon, Chapters and KoboBooks.com
Cheryl Kaye Tardif is an award-winning, bestselling Canadian suspense author of 4 published novels, including Whale Song, which New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice calls “a compelling story of love and family and the mysteries of the human heart...a beautiful, haunting novel." Her agent is Jack Scovil from Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency in New York.
Cheryl has finished 3 other novels: Children of the Fog, Divine Justice (book 2 in the Divine series) and her debut romantic suspense Lancelot’s Lady, which she’s written under the pen name of Cherish D’Angelo.
Cheryl is also known for her “shameless” promotion and creative marketing strategies, and she coaches other authors on these strategies. With countless interviews on TV, radio, in newspapers and magazines, and over 200 book signings since 2003 plus a one-month virtual book tour under her belt, she speaks at writers’ conferences in Canada and the US.
Booklist raves, “Tardif, already a big hit in Canada…a name to reckon with south of the border.”
Cheryl’s website: http://www.cherylktardif.com
Official blog: http://www.cherylktardif.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cherylktardif
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