Your Move I

Your Move I is the first of seven novels that chronicles a story of espionage, murder, and convenient alliances. The catalyst that triggers all the events occurs in an equestrian village northwest of Chicago. An investigative reporter walking her yellow Labrador retriever unearths a payoff file that implicates the male icons in her family. Rather than turn the evidence over to the federal district attorney, she ignores her journalistic standards and contacts her family's oldest and dearest friend, a US senator.

'tis an ill cook who cannot lick his own fingers.'

Patricia Shaver is much more than the heiress to a banking fortune. Aside from writing documentary-style articles that call attention to social injustices, she uses her billion-dollar charitable foundation to level the playing field.

To her, identifying good and evil is a cut-and-dried process, but as she wrestles with a methodology to bring the payoff file to the public's attention, she inadvertently becomes involved with incidents having international ramifications. Thrust into an unfamiliar arena, she discovers that her formula for identifying trustworthy individuals is far from perfect. In a world where the ends justify the means, black hats can cover halos and white hats can cover horns.