From “Sonata Contineo” “I left Maxine’s home a different person than when I’d gone in. I now knew for certain I had a soul. Everyone had one. It was just a matter of what passions it was made of and whether it ruled the person, or the person was blessed …
“People look giddy when they find puppy love, exhilarated when they find real love, and animalistic when they discover lust. Lane and Gabriella weren’t any of those things. Theirs was a magical connection, a special one Lane said I was capable of. He was wrong, and for the first time, …
“Lane’s voice rang in my memory, his old admonition that I was being financially reckless by moving into an apartment while my parents lived only a few blocks from campus. He’d said it because we were friends, and sometimes friendship called for a war, a battle to make sure the …
“Out of Splinters and Ashes” has been chosen as a finalist for InD’Tale Magazine’s Rone Awards in Historical Fiction. Honored to be amongst those highly reviewed and voted for, this novel which is centered on an illicit love affair formed just prior to WWII during Germany’s Summer Olympics between an American runner …
More deep truths are told in fiction than nonfiction. People will say in a story what they wouldn’t dare to their friends, their significant other, or even themselves. Authors “Write What They Know” when they dredge up brutal honesty and assign it to a character, leaving a reader who suffers from …
“We would be fools to think fiction authors weren’t writing their own truths. And we would be liars if we didn’t admit our truths were in their stories we read.” From “Out of Splinters and Ashes” Read, write, and live…experience the power of the word.
Fact truly is stranger than fiction. Hopefully it ends on the last page with a huge, “Ahhhhhh….”
Amazon Neither Rex nor Regina wants a spouse, but they do have needs. Ranger Rex Duncan needs a false identity—just long enough to uncover a ring of Kansas ranch thieves. Answering Regina’s ad for a temporary husband, he leaves his beloved red dirt of Oklahoma to assume that disguise. But …
“Out of Splinters and Ashes” is my next book to come out…a story about the right person at the wrong time, or the wrong person at the right time. Or as a friend of mine asked – is there ever a wrong time if you’ve …
Trading a dress for pants and learning to ranch like a man didn’t satisfy the law that said no woman could own property in Kansas’ early days. Freshly widowed Regina couldn’t buy or trick her way around her deceased husband’s shrewd banker, finally resigning herself to holding onto their ranch by …
