Divine Intervention [Paperback]

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 Author photo by Richard J. Milne www.photorj.com Please read the review of Divine Intervention in Edmonton\'s Real Estate Weekly at www.rewedmonton.ca Author Events www.cherylktardif.com/events.htm 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 it‚s 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 Amazon.com and had this to say: "Cheryl Kaye Tardif\'s hot futuristic thriller, Divine Intervention, radiates suspense and mystery. Divine Intervention transports the reader to a tomorrow with comforting echoes of today, but also with strange possibilities that challenge expectations. Tardif\'s passionate crime solvers are anything but ordinary, in any time: three high-strung special investigators endowed with psychic powers, which enable them to pierce the veil separating the physical world from a fleeting dimension of shadowy thoughts and events. Their extrasensory vision isn\'t perfect, though, and Jasi, Natassia, and Ben must always supplement their gifts with old-fashioned detective work and strategic, if sometimes unpleasant, alliances to make up the balance. Paradoxically, their unusual abilities can render them dangerously vulnerable, transforming the hunters into the prey, the magicians of emotion into nearly helpless pawns. The author skillfully ties and unties knots in a plot line stretching back decades to a source of evil now unleashing fiery destruction and horrible death amid the scenic wonders of British Columbia, Canada. Tardif fuels her story with relentless pacing, marvelously cryptic clues, frequent surprises, and convincing details of criminal investigation and firefighting. The narrative temperature reaches feverish intensity when multiple conflicts threaten to ignite and obsessive attractions cloud rationality with sensual steam. As a mystery author and lover of a well-told tale, I found much to admire and enjoy in Divine Intervention by Cheryl Kaye Tardif." Check out Jimmy Fox, author of Deadly Pedigree, Lineages and Lies, and Jackpot Blood, at his website. You can also visit Canadian author Cheryl Kaye Tardif at her website listed below. Links related to this article: www.jimmyfox.com - Jimmy Fox, author of Jackpot Blood. www.cherylktardif.com - Cheryl Kaye Tardif, author of Divine Intervention. www.authorsden.com/cheryltardif - Cheryl Kaye Tardif on AuthorsDen Divine Intervention is a divine treasure! Finally, a Canadian novel by a Canadian author that captures Canadiana in its finest. Cheryl Kaye Tardif\'s most recent novel is comparative to Nora Roberts\' "In Death" series that is penned under the pseudonym of \'J.D. Robb\'. In the first of Tardif\'s Divine series, Divine Intervention introduces the reader to an elite group of psychic government agents. The chemistry between Jasmine McLellan, the pyro-psychic who enters a serial killer\'s mind, and Brandon Walsh, the Chief of Arson Investigations, is hotter than a Florida heat wave. Cheryl Kaye Tardif successfully manipulates the characters, their emotions and actions, and takes you to a startling climax that will leave you suspended. The shocking twist at Divine Intervention\'s conclusion will rip your emotions bare as you enter the world of a serial arsonist bent on re...