When personal tragedies collide with pandemics and emerging microbial threats, veterinary epidemiologist Maya Maguire finds the courage to tackle worldwide public health crises. Haunted but determined, Maya must make sense of challenging research, betrayal, and conflicting loyalties in a desperate race to detect how disease outbreaks are spreading and whether they can be stopped.This is an ebook collection of the first four novels in the MayaVerse, a public health world centered on...

Anthracis is the debut novel in an alphabetical series featuring Maya Maguire, medical detective, in her journey as an Asian American veterinarian solving microbial mysteries. The spectacular southwestern desert is alive with Bacillus anthracis spores, and the summer is the hottest on record. As a new veterinary epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Maya Maguire confronts the largest, most complex anthrax...

Looking for trouble? Tucson is a perfect backdrop for sun-drenched stories of murder, abduction, and finding the unexpected.Is that a whiff of grapes? Maybe it's the smell of rain on asphalt. Trouble comes in all kinds of forms - even some you'd never expect.Keep reading to find out what it's all about. Just be careful, the lightning can be frightening....

Bats and bearded dragons, raccoons and baby goats—animals are our fellow Earth creatures. But they pose a threat. Each species harbors invisible microbes, ready to leap into human bodies. In the ten short medical thrillers and one graphic poem of "Microbial Mysteries," public health disease detectives are challenged by mysterious outbreaks from zoonotic viruses, bacteria, and parasites. The story collection includes MayaVerse prequels over four decades of disease investigations with veteri...

Unintended consequences, just trying to survive.In this magical realism short story, Apollo longs for the beaches and forests of his South Pacific home. But he's grateful to the New York family who adopted him, and he adores his younger sister, Aphrodite. Everything is fine until Aphrodite's friends invade their home for her fifth birthday party.Interview with the AuthorQ: How does "Pariah" tie into the MayaVerse microbial ...

In the COVID age of historical and cultural re-assessments under the threat of climate change, this fictional ten-minute play imagines a possible connection at the Santa Fe Plaza Civil-War era monument. "Monuments" was awarded best short play by Synchroniciti in 2021.Interview with the AuthorQ: How does "Monuments" tie into the MayaVerse microbial mystery novels?A: The alphabetical novels are medical thrillers with zoonotic disease organisms...

"Red Thread" is a short story about the author's fateful journey to adoption halfway around the world. The new family member inspires creation of the fictional MayaVerse, a series of microbial mysteries featuring a compelling veterinary medical detective, Maya Maguire.Interview with the AuthorQ: Have you always wanted to be a writer?A: A career in public health can include scientific writing and communication. But even before my training as a veteri...

Deadly … Exotic … Frightening"Ebola: A Microbial Mystery" weaves together an intricate tapestry of global public‐health crises, wildlife conservation, and a deeply personal journey of grief and redemption. Set against the backdrop of disease outbreaks across West Africa and beyond, the story follows veterinarians, physicians, and conservationists who must navigate treacherous field expeditions, steep cultural divides, and ethical dilemmas. As each character strives...

Is dengue the next pandemic? Two veterinary medical detectives, decades apart in age and experience, battle the tropical disease first in New York City and New Mexico, then in Hawai'i. Even in paradise, people can't escape blood-thirsty mosquitoes spurred on by a warming climate. Join these resilient women as they push through personal challenges to discover the scientific truth and stop the relentless death toll.Faye Simpson abandons New York and a domineering boss to solve the my...

Borrelia is the second novel featuring Maya Maguire, medical detective, in her journey as an Asian American veterinarian solving microbial mysteries.A pregnant New Mexico woman is dying from relapsing fever and reaction to her treatment for infection with Borrelia, a squiggly spirochete bacteria. After searching for blood-sucking ticks at the patient's cabin, veterinarian Maya Maguire of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a car accident which upend...

In New Mexico, veterinarian Maya Maguire approaches the end of her training as one of CDC's elite epidemic shock troops. Despite unfinished business with a toxic colleague, her work and personal life fall into place.Until COVID, and its impact on loved ones.After investigating the first human case in Arizona, her focus shifts to coronavirus in animals.As a Chinese American adoptee, her origin story comes full circle like an ouroboros—a dragon eating its tail.

Toronto in the twenty-first century: At night, a beacon on a lonely ancient lake, a drainage pond from the last ice age. In the daytime, a bulwark of glass, glinting in the radiant sun. Joe, Mary, and her cat, Sam, sit in a lakeside condo, trapped by a crazed, mysterious sniper. What has become of their lives? What has become of their city? What has become of their century? As the situation begins to unravel, Mary finds herself wondering, “What would Margaret Atwood do?”