Works in Progress:

Hide and Seek: Novel 312 pgs.

            Kendra Donovan prepares for a two-week vacation with her family – the first time in over ten years they have been together – FBI Agent Calvin Donovan, her father; Sarah Donovan, RN, her mother; Michelle her seventeen year old sister; and David her twin brother in his last year of law school. At the last minute her boss insists on a report. She will lose her job if it’s not on his desk Monday morning. Kendra stays behind to do the report. The family leaves for an unknown destination. Her father, a mystery buff, leaves clues for her to find them. But they never arrive. It is reported that their car went over a mountain, exploded, and was completely incinerated – a murder/suicide. Kendra does not for a minute believe such a report and sets out to find clues that will lead her to her family. She finds murder, intrigue, danger, old friends, and new ones that stir feelings she didn’t know she had.

Sing Me To Sleep: Novel 339 pgs

            Jennifer Miller thought she had successfully put her past behind her and made a new life for herself. When she learns her mother, Kathryn Miller, who is coming to live with her has Alzheimer’s, Jennifer’s world begins to tip upside down. Because of her past, a rape which resulted in a child she refused to accept, she is afraid of falling in love. Doctor David Williams, recently acquitted of a murder in Chicago, comes to Austen Grove as Chief of Pathology – a job Jennifer has fulfilled for several months. Within a week of his arrival, a second murder in Austen Grove occurs in the hospital parking lot, the first having been Homicide Detective Brenner’s daughter and Jennifer’s best friend, Dianne five years earlier. More murders occur; Kathryn’s decline becomes more evident; Jennifer seems to be the real target or the serial killer. Jennifer, a devout Christian, tries to make it on our own; do the impossible and hold on to her mother when Kathryn is beyond medical help. David, a non-believer reminds her to let her God handle it. Jennifer, trying to help her mother hold on to her memory, fight her emerging feelings for her non-believing boss, and keep one step ahead of a serial killer who is stalking her, learns she must face her past before she can accept the present and future. In trying to hold on to everything, she comes close to losing it all. When she is finally able to let go, she finds love, acceptance, and mercy. David learns that just because he says there is no God does not make it so.

Olivia’s Promise: Novel 414 pgs

      Olivia’s Promise is a story of faith and courage in a time of war and fear. Olivia Brunner promises her husband, Will, that in the event of danger she will protect their children as best she can. In February of l861 William Brunner and his friends were incarcerated in Libby Prison because they refused to fight. By mid-March they know war is imminent, so Olivia fulfills her promise and as difficult as it is to leave Will in prison, she takes the children north to relatives in the Kanawha Valley.

Olivia becomes wagon master, as well as spiritual leader for six women and an assortment of children, ages five months to twelve years, including a black infant who is tossed to her as she leaves Richmond. With heavy hearts the women leave their husbands in the prison, battle the weather and strained friendships, encounter both Confederate and Union troops, and deal with accidents, illness, death, and discrimination along the way. Reaching their destination they clear timber, build houses, plant gardens, and fight off AWOL soldiers. Olivia’s older son, James, is shot. The confederates took the community’s doctor and Olivia must become a surgeon to save her son’s life. Through all the hardships Olivia has kept her promise to Will. She kept the children as safe as she could. Olivia sometimes doubts, but never loses hope as she waits for Will to escape and join her.

 Box of Secrets: Novella 105 pgs

Erin Parker has no memory of the time before she was five. Her grandparents destroyed all pictures and mementoes which would cause her to remember the accident that killed her father. Her unknown past is about to engulf her like a sliding avalanche twenty years later, when she is alone in a strange new town. She endures threats, harassments, the poisoning of her beloved cat, Ginger, and the murder of one of her fourth grade students, for which she is a prime suspect. All this takes place within two weeks in a place where she is unknown and has no idea who is out to get her, or why – until she opens the Box of Secrets left by her grandmother.

Message from Grayhaven: Novella 181 pgs 

Kara Anderson’s friend, Marcy, calls at four o’clock in the morning asking for help. Kara goes to Grayhaven – an English castle on the coast of Maine – to help her friend. Not only is her friend dead, but Marcy has left Kara a multimillion dollar estate. Marcy’s friends and family tell Kara that Marcy committed suicide, but Kara is convinced it was murder and is determined to discover who killed her friend. Suddenly she finds her own life in danger and the only living being she can truly trust is a wolf-dog named Winston.