Kayla Perrin is the author of eighteen novels. She has received an Arts Acclaim Award for her writing from the city of Brampton, Ontario, and has twice won a spot on RWA’s Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year list. Kayla spends her time between Toronto and Miami, Florida. Author’s Website: www.kaylaperrin.com Author Q&A 1. What do you like to do in your free time? Free time?  What free time??  LOL.  Okay, so I do have moments when I’m not writing or being a mom, and in those quiet moments, I really like to read.  I love movies as well, and now I have a huge DVD collection.  Settling back on the sofa and watching a movie is something I love to do.  Yeah, I’m a home body, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like to get out on occasion.  When the film festival is in town, I love getting dressed up and going to some film festival parties.  Inevitably, there are some stars at these parties (like Samuel Jackson!) and I always get a kick out of that. 2. . . .

The Grayson family is a pillar of the African-American community in New Orleans. But Sylvia Grayson, the matriarch, has deep secrets that she represses under a veneer of keeping up appearances. She keeps a tight rein on her daughter, Olivia, and has the perfect life mapped out for her: go to college, join the Delta sorority, marry the proper boy. So when the town’s “bad girl” is found murdered one summer day in 1975, Sylvia pulls Olivia even closer. But when Olivia’s one last attempt at rebellion is subverted by her mother, Sylvia’s relentlessly tight control shatters the ties between them. Years later, Olivia’s own daughter, Rachelle, is trying to make her way in the world. Olivia does not want to make the same mistakes as her mother, nor does she want her daughter to make the same errors Olivia made out of rebellion. Meanwhile, a killer is watching from the shadows, determined to keep the secrets of the past from coming to light. The Delta Sisters is a spellbinding, intimate portrait of what happens when these passionate women have . . .

“Phoebe loves her sorority, Alpha Sigma Pi, and most of her sisters. Her life seems to be running smoothly: she’s engaged to a gorgeous football player, and everything seems perfect. Until Shandra James becomes a pledge. Shandra is a legacy–her mother is high up in alumni circles–and she’s also a man-stealer. It’s sport to her. And now she is after Phoebe’s fiance, Henry. Phoebe and two of her sorority sisters, Miranda and Camille, cook up a plan to teach Shandra a relatively harmless lesson–but it ultimately ends in murder. Phoebe isn’t sure who killed Shandra, she only knows that she has to keep her name out of it. With betrayal swirling around the house, can Phoebe hold on to her man, protect her sorority sisters, and avoid becoming the next victim?” St. Martin’s Press 336 pages Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 $13.95 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Pub Date: 03/2007 ISBN: 0-312-34016-8 Buy this Book at Powells Buy this Book at Amazon Buy this Book at Barnes & Noble