I Write About Creating Connection
Stories meant to touch our human experience and magnify strength, resilience, and hope.
Creating connections is a crucial element of the human experience. No matter what happens in life or how dark it seems, there is always hope. Anyone can learn to not only survive but thrive. Sometimes we need to focus on what’s important in life, such as the people with whom we surround ourselves, what makes us happy, integrity … My books abound with strong women, a little suspense, multi-generational family—both blood and chosen—timely issues and timeless topics. Let yourself get carried away by a story and replenish your soul.
About the Author
Sometimes The Voices In My Head Have To Come Out
My whole life has been about making a difference. Now, I left the corporate world behind and chose to focus on the next Act of my life: novelist. In my previous Acts, I have always been a writer. As a child, teenager, and young adult, I wrote short stories, poetry, novellas, and novels. As an adult, I’ve worked in politics (began my career at the White House), as a journalist, then in the corporate world.
Writing novels has always been my intention, but out of necessity I had to put that on hold. My late husband, a musician from Dublin, Ireland, and I had triplets. He then was diagnosed with a brain tumor when they were three, where the man with whom I fell in love disappeared over a long decade. I was the sole support of our family and his medical bills, and my career required global travel. But during that time, I kept running through all the stories in my head and the new ones forming with characters and situations I encountered around the world and close to home. This is now the next act of my life.
I’ve traveled the world both for work and pleasure. All have given me the opportunity to collect stories, meet characters, experience different cultures. Now the stories – the voices in my head – cannot be contained and I’m writing books…many books.
Books
At a Glance
01 Comes Around - A Timber River Thriller
Young, uber-achieving professional Halley McCarthy slinks back to her small-town Michigan roots in shame when her carefully constructed life blows up. Her employer, a San Francisco tech startup for which she left New York, is under federal investigation for fraud; its executives are accused of embezzlement and two of the partners disappear; her ex-fiancé turns out to be a creep; and soon a colleague is killed, bringing back painful memories of her mother’s long-ago, unsolved murder.
02 A Quiet Town - A Timber River Thriller
Gone. Just like that. A normal morning turns deadly when a deputy and his prisoner disappear during transport between two small Michigan towns. It will take salon & spa owner Marsh Monet and his Gumshoe Readers Book Club, with the assistance of the Phantom Raiders Motorcycle Club, to put together the pieces before it’s too late.
03 Fresh Water
One summer. Three generations. A small, family island. Languorous days on the water. Emotional upheaval in the undercurrents. Possible murder. The lies people tell. The secrets they keep…
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