CFBI Agent Jasi McLellan 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 consists 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.
Step into the fire with Jasi McLellan, in the first of the Divine series- a suspense thriller that will keep you turning the pages. If you enjoy reading Nora Roberts/ J.D. Robb, Patricia Cornwell or Lisa Jackson, you'll Love Cheryl Kaye Tardif!
Cheryl Kaye was born in Vancouver, BC on August 12, 1963 to parents, Larry and Mary Kaye. As a teenager, her favorite author was Stephen King, and to this day, she still reads everything he writes. At 14, Cheryl moved to Bermuda with her family. Her writing took off and her English Composition teacher, Mrs. Mary Higginson was especially encouraging. Cheryl entered a variety of writing contests and received recognition for her work. She achieved O'Levels in English Language, Literature and Composition, and she was given a prestigious award in English. As a teenager, Cheryl took over writing a weekly column, Masset Meanderings, in the local newspaper. Years later, she wrote a monthly health & beauty column.
Cheryl Kaye Tardif completed a correspondence course, Journalism and Short Story Writing, and graduated with Highest Honors. She has published numerous works of poetry in Canadian newspapers. One project was a poem/song she wrote for the soldiers at the end of the Gulf War. God Bless the Soldiers was published in a NB newspaper. A few years ago she wrote, directed and starred in Face to Faith, a contemporary musical play performed in Millwood's Presbyterian Church in Edmonton. It was so successful that they had to open for a second evening. Cheryl has also written two unpublished children's books: The Elfling Princess (first in a potential series of Elfling Kingdom books) and My Imaginary Friend. She has participated in numerous readings of both books, in schools, at book fairs, in libraries and in daycares. She is anticipating that her current publisher will publish these within the next 5 years. (She is currently busy with other writing projects).
In early 2003, Cheryl's PSA (public service announcement) script, One Voice-One World placed third in a local contest. Her script was produced and filmed. It has aired on cable channels in Alberta. In September of 2003, Trafford Publishing published her first novel, Whale Song. It is currently available on the Internet, including Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, WalMart.com, and Indigo.ca. Many Edmonton Coles, Smithbooks, Chapters and Indigo stores have Whale Song on their shelves. Greenwoods in Edmonton also carries Cheryl's novel. It has been converted to an E-Book at Powells.com Cheryl Kaye Tardif and Whale Song had been featured in The Edmonton Examiner and on Shaw TV. 96X radio station in Edmonton has also promoted Cheryl's events.
Divine Intervention, Cheryl Kaye Tardif's second novel (a suspense thriller) was written in 4 months. Cheryl is currently working on The River, a techno thriller about a mysterious river in the rainforests of BC- a river of many secrets, terror and death. If she is not locked in her office writing, she is with her husband Marc, her daughter, Jessica, and the current Japanese student living with her. Cheryl is planning on teaching summer writing courses in Edmonton this year!
Cheryl Kaye Tardif's Official Site: www.cherylktardif.com
You can email Ms. Tardif at: cherylktardif@shaw.ca
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Please read the review of Divine Intervention in Edmonton's Real Estate Weekly at www.rewedmonton.ca
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Reviews
Here's an action-packed book for Summer readers. Set in the year
2012, Divine Intervention tells the story of a secret government-
funded crime-fighting organization with one notable difference;
Along with high tech devices, they solve cases with their inborn
telepathic talents.
Guided by a murdered girl in a reoccurring childhood nightmare,
agent Jasmine McLellan is assigned the task of hunting down a
psychotic arsonist who has already murdered 3 people in the
Kelowna area.
McLellan is partnered with an Empath named Natassia Prushenko,
and a mind-reading profiler named Benjamin Roberts who also is a
marshall arts expert. With her amazing ability to see through the
killer's eyes and relive his murders, Jasi, as her friends call
her, is able to glean vital clues about the culprit.
The team's task is complicated by the involvement of the Premiere
of British Columbia, a hospital administrator, a reporter who
knows too much about the case, and a loner pharmacist. All of
them seem to be promising suspects. Certain law enforcement
personnel didn't make their job easier either.
As with all well-written mysteries, the perpetrator turns out to
be the person who the reader least expects. The many entangled
relationships between the characters ensure that the story will
keep readers turning pages.
Cheryl Kaye Tardif is an Edmontonian, transplanted from
Vancouver, who has had a novel called Whale Song published in
September, 2003. Her numerous poems have appeared in small
Canadian newspapers and she has authored 2 regular columns in
B.C. Whale Song is available in Greenwoods and other Edmonton book
stores. It can also be ordered at http://www.amazon.ca. A
techno-thriller, called The River, is in the works and should be
published next year.
More information about this author can be found on her
www.cherylktardif.com web site. You can also read about her motivational speaking career. She can be contacted at her
cherylktardif@shaw.ca e-mail address.
Bruce Atchison is a freelance writer and electronic music
composer living in Radway. He can be reached at his
ve6xtc@telusplanet.net e-mail address
Divine Intervention was a hugely pleasant surprise. Cheryl Kaye Tardif has
definitely found her genre with this new crime novel set in the not-so-far
future. The story is about Agent Jasmine McLellan, who works for a highly
special branch of the Canadian Federal Bureau of Investigations. She is a
Pyro-Psychic, one who can read crime scenes involving fires, telling what
caused them, and sometimes who and why. The reader begins the novel as Jasi
is coming off downtime from a huge case, and is abruptly thrown into a new
one. Someone in B.C. has already murdered three people by fire, and the
case is given to the PSI unit of the CFBI to find the killer. It is now up
to Jasi and her colleagues, with the aid of the insufferably attractive
Chief of Arson Investigations Brandon Walsh, to track down the
murderer-before itâs too late. I found Divine Intervention to be extremely
hard to walk away from. I kept wanting to read just one more chapter. With
the believable characters, and scorching plot twists, I was truly sorry to
see the book end. Anyone who is a fan of J.D. Robb will thoroughly enjoy
this one- especially any who have been waiting for an excellent voice to
bring alive a genuinely Canadian crime novel. I, for one, am now itching to
read more about Jasi and the rest of the PSI team. Divine Intervention will
undeniably leave you smoldering-and dying for more.
Kelly Christian, WGA member and DF (Devout Fan)
"WONDERFUL! Riveting, with imagery almost agonizingly clear. Tardif's
characters and story have an integrity that makes it nearly impossible to
stop reading!"
Kate Leighton, Canadian editor and writer
"Cheryl Kaye Tardif Writes Scorchingly Good Fiction!"
Divine Intervention by Cheryl Kaye Tardif was recently reviewed by Jimmy Fox, author of the award-winning Nick Herald Genealogical Mysteries.
"Cheryl Kaye Tardif writes scorchingly good fiction!" writes author Jimmy Fox. The Louisiana author of Jackpot Blood gave Tardif's new psi-fi suspense thriller 5 stars on Amazo