Meet our Team

I’ve been lucky enough to turn my passion into a career. I’ve been blessed with a supportive, loving group of family and friends who have been by my side from the beginning.

I graduated with a degree in journalism and PR from Troy University. I spent the first years of my career telling other people stories as a features editor and news writer for a daily paper.

I am just a simple southern girl who loves to help others!

I love my sweet tea, SEC football, and have been known to exhibit a smidge of sass.

Brett Nichols retired after twenty-six years with the Miami-Dade Police Department. The times were crazy, with drugs pouring into the city, cartel wars, and the Mariel boatlift. Murders were an everyday event that made the job interesting. After working as a patrolman for five years, I transferred to the Crime Scene Bureau for nine years. Over the next nine years, he was the lead in over three hundred homicides and assisted with over a thousand more. He spent his last twelve years in the Homicide Bureau before retiring. Brett now resides in Newnan, enjoying writing and playing cards.   

Donna H. Black writes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Her writing journey began when a friend suggested that other people wrote things and she could too. It was a completely foreign thought, but Donna took the challenge and began writing descriptions of people she saw on the street and passing through her office in Atlanta. The goal was for the written description to recreate in the mind of the reader the exact scene she was seeing. After experimenting with clearly conveying a vision to a reader, she then began to write about things that stressed, aggravated, or confused her. The goal of these essays was to explore conflicting points of view and to make a logical case to settle things in her own mind. Some of those missives became the basis for characters who found their way into her future works of fiction.

Writer, mom, project manager, photographer, traveler, University of Tennessee horticulturist, and native plant and animal devotee, Donna lives, works, writes, and frets in Fayetteville, Georgia where she and her husband have raised two kids to the age of self-sufficiency.

Sharon Marchisello is the author of the DeeLo Myer cat rescue cozy mystery series from Level Best Books. Her other mysteries were published by Sunbury Press: Going Home (2014) and Secrets of the Galapagos (2019). She has also written a nonfiction book, travel articles, a blog, book reviews, and short stories. She earned a Master’s in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and is active in Sisters in Crime, the Atlanta Writers Club, and several critique groups. She lives in Peachtree City, GA, and serves on the boards of the Fayette Humane Society, Hometown Novel Writers Association, and the Friends of the Peachtree City Library.

H.D. Reese loves to empower others by sharing her experiences through writing, speaking, and teaching self-defense classes. 

She draws inspiration from her personal journey, as well as her love of nature, animals, and advanced technologies, to create vivid worlds beyond our own. Her goal is to raise awareness about domestic violence and teach women to be their own heroes.