Talya - coffee addict and perfectionist - threw in the proverbial towel on her accounting career in favor of the less-reliable life of a novelist. In Search of Death is her first published work - scoring far higher on the charts then she could have ever imagined. These days she can be found with a piping cup of Joe in one hand and a nearly dead ballpoint pen in the other. Secluded from the world, Talya has made the breathless altitude of the Mountains her home. With an average of 360 days of sunshine and crisp morning air, Talya now meets her days scribbling away on her screened in patio. The only forces strong enough to compel her from her stupor is an oncoming caffeine headache and the final gasp of death from her last pen.