A Dying Art

At a homecoming celebration, Emma Rooney crawls out of the woods brutalized and raped. Ten years later, she's marshaled her drawing skills, and overcomes the terror from that night by becoming a forensic sketch artist for the police, until budget cuts and computer software take Emma's job away. Her passion for art endures, designing tattoos and doing freelance work for private eyes, like the Grunge Operatives of Alternative Investigations. Unbeknownst to Emma, their deadliest case will pit her desire for justice and vengeful survival instincts against an international terrorist.A Dying Art is a novella approximately 26,000 words long.