Traces of Mary, coming in 2022 from Crossroad Press

Dedication
To David Wilson and David Dodd, with heartfelt thanks for keeping my sci-fi, horror, mystery and fantasy torch burning brightly! And for all that both of you have done for so many other authors, too.   Cast of characters In order of appearance
Tanya Audette, a young girl who lives in Boston. 
Sophie Audette, her mother. Zachary Pearlman, Boston shop proprietor and owner of Fluffy, a French poodle. 
Billy McAllister, a young boy who lives in Providence, Rhode Island. 
Jessica McAllister, his older sister. 
Mary Lambert McAllister, their mother. 
The Rev. John Lambert, S.J., “Uncle Jack,” Mary’s brother, a Jesuit priest. 
Alice McKay Lambert, “Grammy,” Mary and Fr. Jack’s mother, of Blue Hill, Maine. 
George Linwood Lambert, “Grampa,” Alice’s late husband and father of Mary and Jack. 
Mr. Hawthorne, a mortician. 
Amanda Leroux, a social worker at the homeless center Fr. Jack runs in Boston. 
Stephen McAllister, Mary’s estranged husband and the father of her two children. 
Andre Washington, Billy’s best friend. 
Paul “Angel” Iannotti, 14, a school dropout and bully. 
Ordo, leader of the Priscillas, the good species in a distant galaxy.
Alex Borkowski, Billy’s and Andres’s second-best friend. 
Crimson Vanner, a drug addict and dealer. 
Z-DA, last of the Lepros, an evil species in a distant galaxy. 
Juan Sierra, a property owner in Providence, R.I. 
Rudolph Howe Sr. and Jr., lawyers in Providence, R.I. 
Mrs. Bartholomew, father of a boy burned in an amusement-park fire. 
Lt. Perry Callahan, a Providence police detective. 
Amanda Leroux’s mother, an elderly woman who lives on Massachusetts’ North Shore. 
Erica Han, a reporter with the Bangor Daily News. 
Charlie Moonlight, a Native American spiritual leader. Readers may recognize him from the horror novel Thunder Rise, first book in the Thunder Rise trilogy.