Laverne Stewart, best-selling author of Angels and the Afterlife, is a Fredericton, New Brunswick-based, award-winning journalist of 30 years. The reporter for major newspapers across the province, is also a former radio news anchor and CTV reporter. She's donating her royalties to the Jackie Clark Fund aiding youth in crisis, child abuse victims and young aspiring writers (honoring Jackie's desire to become a published writer).

"I was part of the search effort, hoping all the while to find her yet at the same time dreading that possibility... This event rocked not only myself but...

Experiencing the violent death of a loved one stays with you forever. You never get over it. This is the case for the family of Jackie Clark, an eight-year-old girl, who was abducted, sexually violated and killed by her abductor. So many people were impacted by her death - her family, friends, police officers and searchers. Then I was convinced by a psychic medium that the little spirit girl was reaching out from the other side, wanting to contact her mother and others stuck in a place of deep grief. One-by-one I found the grieving... Messages were given. Deep emotional wounds started...