By
Kelvin Landolt & Donna Radik

She was once a he, born Grant Baxter.  She lived life in the transgender sub-culture of Vancouver, hooking on Davies Street in the mid-1980’s.  Pushed from the street by an escalation of violence and social pressure, she creates a haven for herself and fellow sex trade workers.  This respite is short-lived.  A gang of bikers  seize the cathouse, which forces her to flee. 

She undergoes a sex change at 19-years-old.  Now, a strikingly tall, blonde and blue-eyed woman, Grayce, moves to Toronto to work in the sex trade Domination market.  Obsessed with making

Dan Johnson	Grayce Baxter

her mark, there is no shortage of clients who will pay for her services.  She lives the high life, until things escalate to a near fatality with a client.  She realizes she has reached the depths of depravity and tries to find a way out of the life she has created for herself.

Then, suddenly, Grayce vanishes. Her BMW, expensively furnished condo, cat, all

remain, but there is no trace of Grayce.   Police investigate her strange disappearance to no avail.  Family and friends are left to wonder what has happened and hope that she is still alive as Christmas 1992 approaches.

The new year brings no new leads.  Police suspect the worst--that Grayce has been murdered.  Dan Johnson, a young prison guard, confesses to the crime.  Police spend eight weeks searching for Grayce’s body and find nothing.  No body.  No real evidence.  What if an orchestrated death became her ultimate escape?   This is the mystery explored in “No Trace of Grace”.