Kendra Ballantyne is a Los Angeles attorney who lives in the hills overlooking the San Fernando Valley with her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Lexie.

She's my creation.  I'm Linda O! Johnston, a Los Angeles attorney who lives in the hills overlooking the San Fernando Valley with my husband and two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels--Sparquie and Lexie.  Are the Kendra stories autobiographical?  No!  Kendra is definitely not my alter ego.  I'm an inveterate transactional type who loves to write...contracts as well as fiction.  I avoid courtrooms.

Kendra is a high-powered civil litigator.  Or at least she was, till she got into some trouble and her license to practice law was suspended.   Needing a way to earn enough money for Lexie and her to live on, she has taken up petsitting and eventually, when her license is reinstated, she begins to practice pet law.

But before she can resume her lawyering, some of her petsitting clients begin to turn up dead--in the first Kendra Ballantyne mystery:  Sit, Stay, Slay.

And Kendra begins to wonder whether losing her law license is the least of her worries. In fact, she’s very worried about the fact that she’s become a murder magnet. And that keeps up, even after her law license is restored.

You can read about her adventures in SIT, STAY, SLAY, from Berkley Prime Crime, and in NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FERRETS and FINE FEATHERED DEATH. And watch for MEOW IS FOR MURDER which will appear in February 2007.