by Nathan Fillion in the TV show Firefly. Senator Lindsy Gardner, a librarian-turned-politician who ran for President of the United States in 2016 against Republican Caleb Brown and Independent Legs Kline. During her campaign, she asked Capt. Nikki Heat to serve in her Cabinet as Director of Homeland Security. Other fictional novels In a Hail of Bullets (winner of the Nom DePlume Society's Tom Straw Award for Mystery Literature) Death of a Prom Queen Flowers For Your Grave Hell Hath No Fury A Skull at Springtime At Dusk We Die When It Comes to Slaughter A Rose for Everafter Dead Man's Chest Bullets and Bracelets Kissed and Killed One Bullet, One Heart "Mystery" of the Castle ghost writer The ABC network was able to successfully conceal the true identity of the ghost-writer of the Castle book series throughout the eight years of the program's production from 2009 through 2016, allowing the mystery of the true identity of this individual to then remain as an intriguing part of the over-all "Castle myth." In 2010, the hint was dropped, when the "Nom de Plume Society," and the "Tom Straw Mystery Writer's Award," were apparently created to fete actor Nathan Fillion with said award, however at that point in time the general public remained unaware of the connection. The general mystery persisted regarding the ghost-writer's true identity, despite the fact that some then proposed the possibility that therefore Straw must be the true ghost-writer. The ghost-writer's name was only finally fully revealed after the series production was discontinued in 2016. It was then officially acknowledged that the Castle book series was indeed entirely written by a ghostwriter and that established screenwriter Tom Straw wrote the first seven. References External links Heat Wave @ ABC.com Fictional writers Fictional consultants Fictional characters from New York City Fictional amateur detectives Fictional private investigators Fictional Pulitzer Prize winners Television characters introduced in 2009