Ripley Patton lives in Portland, Oregon with one cat, two teenagers, and a man who wants to live on a boat. She is an award-winning short story writer and author of The PSS Chronicles, a young adult paranormal thriller series.
Ripley doesn't smoke, or drink, or cuss as much as her characters. Her only real vices are writing, eating M&Ms, and watching reality television.
Olivia Black has a rare birth defect. Instead of a hand made of flesh and blood, she was born with a ghost hand.
And when her hand goes rogue, doing things she never imagined possible, Olivia must run for her life from a group of men bent on taking her power for their own nefarious purposes.
Olivia returns to the origin of her fears in a race against all her enemies. She must unravel decades of deceit to reveal the true origins of Psyche Sans Soma to the world at last.
Olivia Black, the girl with the ghost hand, has been taken by the CAMFers in their merciless quest to uncover the mysteries of Psyche Sans Soma once and for all. But only if he can break her.
Olivia Black is back, and so is her ghost hand. Now she and Passion must pose as cousins, blend into the most affluent high school in Indianapolis, and infiltrate a mysterious cult known as The Hold.
Born with a ghost hand, a rare paranormal birth defect, Olivia Black struggles to gain control of her power before a militant hate group can strip it from her and use it for their own dark purposes.