"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Wisdom of Confucius

While the Texas Panhandle lacks trees and mountains and lakes, we are blessed with great skyscape.

Val Conrad

Nurse practitioner, author, photographer



I've completed my masters degree program and my advance practice registered nurse license, and as promised, I have once again begun to write book SEVEN of the Like Souls series.  Book Six, Signal of Guilt, was released June 10, 2021.  I am working on the next, which I haven't titled yet.  


For those of you who have just found my page, I am the author of a suspense series, Blood of Like Souls, Tears of Like Souls, Promises of Like Souls, and Secrets of Like Souls and Echoes of Like Souls.  These are available in paperback at Amazon or as Kindle or Nook e-books.  The first four are also available on Audible. Signal of Guilt carries on with characters you're familiar with in a new direction. 


If you'd like a little blurb of my writing, samples are available on Amazon, but I'll tell you more on the next pages...