Lamp Light

Haven Point Lodge, How May I Help You?Jaimie Carrigan stands on the edge of an ice-covered Adirondack pond, listening for the awful scream that was called into dispatch. Standing next to her is K9 Moe, a hundred and fifty five pound Rottweiler.He knows something is wrong.But they are too new. Too raw. Too body-silent, both of them, to be able to communicate the disquiet each feels down to the bone.On paper, Officer Carrigan looks like an exemplary rookie. Technically, she is. She's also the target in the small Sub-station full of old-time officers and firemen. And has been for the past fifteen months. As the rookie, even after all this time, it's her duty to cover shifts, deal with a whacked-out, ever-changing schedule that rarely involves daylight hours, and run long patrol routes with only Moe to keep her company in the moonlit hours.Living with her Aunt Jesse in Haven Point Lodge has its advantages. A room with a bed that she has to share with the huge canine. The most important is that, even with the trial-and-error position that might end at any point, she can keep Moe as hers- her partner, her K9, her companion. The second is being able to pay off the hefty school loans.When Aunt Jesse's lover trips in the snow and nearly lands on a gruesome body half-hidden in a thicket, Jaimie's life is forever changed. She is partnered with Homicide Detective Drew McLaughlin- a stoic, marble-faced man that hasn't laughed in years. He knows nothing about dogs. Or about being a partner to anyone. Hi. My pen name is Katrin Greene.I have lived most of my life as an office manager, accountant, auditor, math-geek, and applications specialist. Sometimes this has been in someone's garage. Sometimes, a cube farm. That's my "work life."The life inside my brain??? Well, that's a bit different. A friend once told me its like watching glitterbombs go off like fireworks.My current worlds:The World of Novo: a post-apocalyptic world, twenty years later, and how much fun some people bring into the world.Haven Point: A semi-rookie police officer and her dog in the Adirondacks trying to pay off her student loans and deal with a mother that is gender-biased and trying to marry her off…See you around the stacks sometime! Haven PointWelcome to the Adirondacks and Haven Point Lodge…Jaimie Carrigan is a rookie cop that has returned home from college with a mass load of debt. Her life is a mess and her over-bearing mother has some very firm ideas about what being a woman is all about. And being a cop isn't one of them.Former Ice Princess, turned hockey player, she loves her hometown and wants to serve, even amongst the very people who made being a teenager nearly impossible.Follow Jaimie as she learns about controlling her sulking temper, loving her K-9 pooch- an over-zealous rottweiler, dealing with a new partner who is in the middle of a nasty, public-relations nightmare of a divorce, and avoiding her mother, who thinks nothing of sending packaged lingerie to the station house in an attempt to marry Jaimie off… or showing up at a crime scene with cookies.