Billie Landry had been dealing with haters her whole life. At six-foot-two and 250 pounds, she’s never had problems handling herself. In fact, Billie can handle most anything.
Except high-school students. She’s never gotten over that kid who committed suicide. So she quit teaching.
These days, she’s the state’s go-to person for digital forensics. There’s no computer, laptop, cell-phone, or digital appliance she can’t handle. In her line of work, she has seen it all from grisly murder to the worst child-porn cases imaginable.
So, when a serial murderer is operating in the region, the state calls Billie in to look for “digital breadcrumbs”.
She assumes that’s what the latest meeting is about. But this time, they’re asking her to do something she dreads, something she swore she’d never do again, something which cause her to weep at her lonely kitchen dinette: They want her to return to high school.
Royston Stone grew up in eastern Tidewater Virginia, where everything was just fine.
He spent decades dabbling in various jobs, including; round-cuisine deployment technician, land-surveying technician, newspaper artist, video production assistant, professionally licensed tattooist, biostatistics analyst, and long-haul trucker (in no particular order).
He’s lived in Virginia, Maryland, California, Alabama, and North Carolina.
Living somewhere in southeast Asia, he is learning math from gifted 7th through 10th graders.
He loves sketching, drawing, 3D modeling, motorcycling, reading, writing, whiskey and chocolate, and binge watching movies and television. And coffee… there can never be enough coffee. He’s just kind of like that.