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Guilt is a powerful force. No matter how much time has passed, it's always there, ready to punch you in the chest when you least expect it. All it takes is something ordinary--a brief glance, a certain food, or a melody on the readio--and regret strikes hard and fast. For Odessa Feldman, the trigger is a Pacific Northwest storm.

When the muddy bones of a murder victim buried over fifty years ago are discovered in the storm's aftermath, Odessa overcomes her long struggle with guilt to finally reveal the truth. But her overdue confession comes with a difficult price--reliving her role in the tragic summer of 1956 and worse, betraying the best friend she'd ever had.

​Dess and Ellie Matthews were both fourteen-years-old when they met that summer. Ellie's father was a foreman at the dam under construction on the Columbia River. At least that's what he said. But, like murder and the motives behind it, some things in life are rarely as they seem.

Note: It took me a long time to write this novel. I started it many years ago and worked on it in-between writing four other mysteries.

Celilo's Shadow is truly a labor of love and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.