The Scent of Amber & Vanilla

Melody wakes to the scent of amber and vanillaâ€"the cloying scent her ex-lover wore.

The ex-lover who escaped the psychiatric hospital…and kidnapped Melody’s daughter.

Called “a nail-biter” by Publisher’s Weekly, “The Scent of Amber and Vanilla” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Crime & Mystery 2016. It first appeared in Pulse Pounders (Fiction River).

DAYLE A. DERMATIS eschewed Dick & Jane and instead learned to read via the Bobbsey Twins. At age 8, she discovered Nancy Drew, but two years later, disgusted with Nancy’s perfectionism, she hung out with Trixie Belden instead. A simultaneous crush on Remington Steele and Laura Holt cemented her addiction for mystery forever.

Her first novel, Cat Scratch Fever (written as Sophie Mouette and coauthored with Teresa Noelle Roberts), received 4 stars from Romantic Times Book Reviews, who called the book a “delightful, amusing and sexy whodunit.”

A recent transplant to the wild greenscapes of the Pacific Northwest, Dayle is the author of several novels and more than a hundred short stories in a variety of genres, both on her own and with coauthors. Check out her travels at dayledermatis.com, where you can also sign up for her newsletter.