Tammy Mattheis makes a living fighting for those with no voice, but he is beginning to feel the effects of his work after only a short period. "Like supermodeling or high impact sport, the retirement age for undercover animal advocacy is young."Just as Tammy is beginning to agree with his husband Jamie that it's time to retire, an eighteen year old woman in Alaska makes the headlines when she brutally kills a sixty-something woman for beating and torturing a dog. Tammy decides that he must go on one more mission. But while he is lending support to Shyla, he is forced to examine his own fragile sanity. Laura Susan Johnson has been writing since the age of eleven, cutting her teeth on stories of the family dogs and cats. She has written two novels: CRUSH and BRIGHT and three short stories, BURDENS, OUR HOUSE, COLD FOOT, and OLD CARS. All of these projects are now available here at Smashwords. CRUSH and BRIGHT are also available in print at Beaten Track Publishing, in Burscough, Ormskirk, Lancashire, UK.She is currently working on her most challenging projects to date, the interdependent novels, DREAMS and ARMOUR. She lives in Idaho, Oregon, Arkansas and California.Inspired by gay couples she took care of in her career as a hospice nurse, Laura Susan began penning her novel CRUSH in August 2010.Laura Susan has applied much of her own life experience to the characters she hasỲ created in her books and stories. UPDATED 12/22
