Lynda started as a volunteer with social services to work with troubled teen-aged girls, and took every course the social agencies offered. Soon, she became an outreach worker who worked with police, social agencies and charities, becoming a respected front-line worker, often initiating first contact with recovered abused and exploited children. Over the years, and in many different jurisdictions, this second career became the driving force of her life, which often took her into law-enforcement, child welfare agencies, prosecutors offices and the courts.

Honorable mention in Peter B. Hixton Memorial Scholarship for literature -- novels category