Camille Tate has always run away...but vanishing whenever life gets too frightening has never solved anything. When a broken heart sends Cam to remote Orcas Island to try her hand at caretaking and writing a screenplay, she finds quiet beaches and cozy bookstores, plus a host of intriguing folks, including a rugged boat-builder, a glamorous neighbor, and a reassuring sheriff's deputy. But an escalating nest of mysteries and the haunting sense of being watched soon leave Cam wondering if she can believe her own perceptions. As intrigue turns to danger, she must decide whether there is anyone she can trust, or if it's time for her to vanish yet again.

After all the intrigue of the last few weeks, Camille Tate just wants to have a quiet Thanksgiving weekend with her family at her new home on Orcas Island. But when her next-door neighbor Lisa's home is broken into and ransacked, Cam realizes the intrigue is far from over.

CAMILLE TATE HAS FINALLY FOUND HER STRIDE... ...but is it all an illusion? Just when life should finally be settling down for Cam, new challenges arrive to knock her off balance again. Lisa Cannon has returned after being off island all winter, and Cam is both excited to be her new personal assistant, and nervous about showing her the play she's written. But Lisa's return is accompanied by much more trouble than that. JoJo Brixton, that charming rascal, is back, and determined to win Cam's forgiveness with his usual blend of humor, insouciance, and charm. Then there's Colin, who has had just about enough of the friend zone. Kevin and his Intruder, Paige Berry and her air of mystery, pets, raccoons and play revisions add plenty of chaos too. But then a stranger comes prowling, a friend falls deathly ill, and Cam finds herself embroiled in Orcas intrigue again. When Cam and her friend Jen in deep to resolve all these mysteries, both the law and other more shadowy figures go to surprising lengths to keep these "amateurs" out of their business, and away from the truth.

Camille Tate has found the spot she would like to call home......but staying in one place has dangers for a woman who always fades away.When winter comes to Orcas, ice strands Cam indoors. It's time to work on her script, do some caretaking, and recover from the danger of her early time on the island. But Cam is grieving her friends, lost to betrayal, travel, and whatever called Lisa Cannon away with barely a word.What will break Cam's loneliness? JoJo, the rakish son of her boss, offers a charming distraction from all the things Cam should be doing. With him at her side, Cam is swept into a new investigation. Against a backdrop of hilarious island politics and eccentric neighbors, the secrets of Cam's childhood-and her mysterious gift-begin to surface.

CAMILLE TATE IS READY TO BE SEEN... ...but is her world ready to see her? Reeling from her recruitment as a confidential informant in the island's ongoing more-than-murder investigation, Cam is flummoxed by an escalating avalanche of secrets divulged by everyone from her boss, Lisa Cannon, to her friend Paige Berry, and the rakishly charming JoJo Brixton, among others. No one and nothing is what it seemed; and as each new revelation leads to even deeper ones, it becomes a struggle to focus on her fabulous new day job: bringing her recently completed play, Salon Confidential, to the stage! In all the chaos, Cam nearly misses the one thing that's so clear to everyone around her: how much she herself is changing. In this fast-moving, humorous, heartbreaking and heartwarming final volume of The Chameleon Chronicles, Cam faces more than one old nemesis, a slew of surprising new challenges, the long arm of the law, and her innermost fears...as a truly unforgettable opening night draws ever nearer.

Two dead bodies, seemingly unconnected, are found within a week on Orcas Island, a San Juan Island off the coast of Washington. Border concerns with Canada, bizarre murders, coupled with teenage kidnapping and runaways prompt the local authorities to call in experts, agents Bev and Brian Moore. These specialists in foreign intrigue are diverted from their international assignment in Italy to pose as journalists for a criminal investigation on the island. Clues lead to discovery of terrorist tactics and the attempted recruitment of teens into a quagmire of ruthless behavior. Aileen Nowatzki is a Californian writer of novels of intrigue. She received her MA in French and has worked as a teacher, a college instructor, a translator and a director of religious education. Extensive travel with her husband spans three continents and has provided her with a unique perspective on multi-cultural issues. Volunteerism is an important part of her weekly activities. Three children and young grandchildren keep her very active.

A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden offers more than one hundred true anecdotes about animal acts of cooperation, heroism, escape—even tales of deception or manipulation of human beings. Drawing on the first-person experiences of veterinarians, field biologists, researchers, and trainers, Linden has compiled a warmly entertaining and powerfully persuasive argument for animal consciousness that, while not human, far exceeds what humans usually grant animals. Scientifically sound and emotionally compelling, The Parrot's Lament contains remarkable stories that are sure to resonate with animal lovers, turning skeptics everywhere into believers.