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 the whole community, city and province to the core. I found the book to be very factual and accurate. It brought back so many feelings that I'd suppressed, but as Jackie would have wanted, it's promoted healing within me as well…" - Frank K. Paul, retired Fredericton Police Officer, and president, Guardians of the Children, Fredericton



"There was a visceral fear and horrible realization this terror could happen to any family. Jackie, in the midst of the searching, became everyone's daughter, everyone's child. This book has shown me…how light and love can come from such darkness..." - Connie 'Sunshine' LeBlanc, secretary and media representative, Guardians of the Children Fredericton