Blue Twilight
A Rachel Porter Mystery
By Jessica Speart

     Rachel Porter is an agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is her job to protect endangered species, even small things like butterflies. Most people don't think of butterflies as being important. Yet the number of butterflies is a bellwether for the ecology of any region. So, when she was assigned to go check out the guy chasing butterflies in a National Park, even Rachel didn't think it was very important.

     However, it wasn't as simple a case as she thought. The guy was not just taking butterflies; he was catching rare and endangered species of butterflies. He was also breeding them to sell to collectors. This was escalating into something Rachel felt was worth pursuing. However, since she was on probation after a courier was killed in a sting operation because she got there just before Rachel did, she couldn't tell her superiors what she was doing.

    When Rachel found out Mitch Aikens was also in contact with major collectors and selling to the primary collector, a man known only as Horus, she decided to turn Mitch into an informant. There was no use going after Aikens when they were bigger fish to be had. However, she hadn't planned on people going missing. A consultant for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had disappeared while looking for a rare butterfly. Rachel went to find him.

     However, in Mendocino, people turned pale when she mentioned the name of Horus. Was this man so dangerous that Professor Harmon could have been killed to keep him from completing his mission?

    Blue Twilight is a spine tingling adventure into the world of butterfly collecting and conservation. The end is totally unexpected, nothing you would have seen coming. This one is a joy for any mystery lover. Pick up a copy and enjoy!