Patricia V. Davis (Patricia Volonakis Davis) novel, Cooking for Ghosts: Book I in The Secret Spice Cafe Trilogy, is the first of three novels set aboard the RMS Queen Mary. Davis's non-fiction and fiction works share the theme of female dynamism, a term she coined which signifies women taking positive action to support each other and better the world around them. To that end, Davis also founded The Women's PowerStrategy(TM) Conference