Brownie Oxford and the Ashland Affair

When Brownie Oxford found herself kidnapped and taken to the Ashland Cemetery instead of going on a date as expected, she wanted to claim it was an unusual event. Sadly after seven years working as an asset for the National Clandestine Services (NCS) it is hardly the first time she has ended up surrounded by unsavory characters.
As her ability to raise and converse with spirits has been utilized by the NCS to interrogate those who would have otherwise been beyond their reach, Brownie has begun to accept the harsher aspects of her reality. But this time it isn't a matter of National Security, but her own long lost family orchestrating the abduction. Can Brownie figure out what is going on before it is too late?

Valerie Gaumont is an evil genius whose mission is to take over the world. Her latest efforts were thwarted when her flying monkey army discovered beer. Currently they are in Rehab because no one likes a drunk flying monkey. (Thank you for your cards and letters of support.) When she is taking a break from villainy she can often be found with a pen in her hand. Yes, sometimes she is doodling, other times writing fiction and discovering new and interesting ways to combine reality with the outré. She has had short stories in the Violet Ampersand Anthology, Poetry, Prose and Other Voyages to the Edge, and the online Journal, Gothic Fairytales for Melancholy Children. In 2007 she was listed as a finalist in the William Faulkner International Writing Competition in the Novel-In-Progress category.