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Current Works in Progress

2025/2027


Deceitful Promises
(Letters to Santa Collection)
American Historical (1890s)
 
When Kit Dawson asked for an early Christmas gift to find his own way in the newly developed Unassigned Lands, he didn’t anticipate Lydia Blackwell, a bride hand-picked by his father, would arrive expecting to become his wife. Nor that a successful lady detective, Clara Wakefield, on the trail of a suspected poisoner would land on his doorstep as well.

Secrets, misunderstandings, and unforeseen circumstances test and challenge them all to face their deepest desires and find the true meaning of love.

Did Santa know Kit’s dreams would clash with harsh realities, love, secrets, and unforeseen alliances?


The Art of Deception
(Mystery on Lilac Lane Series)
Contemporary

Gallery owner Skye Johnson loves being a part of her small Wisconsin town and proudly displays the work of Wisteria's accomplished and aspiring artists. When her friend and neighbor, local photographer Lucas Cooper hands over his latest work for an upcoming show, Skye notices he'd captured something unsettling in the background. Has there been a murder in their bucolic corner of Wisconsin or is it a trick of the lighting? Before taking their suspicions to the police, Skye and Lucas investigate the clue in the composition. Will they uncover a crime or become the perpetrator's next victims?


Lighthouse Cover
(A Friday the 13th Story)
Paranormal
 
Each sweep of the light reveals the past... and it's waiting in the storm.

When a reclusive woman seeking solace in a storm-battered lighthouse witnesses a ghost ship emerging from the lake’s haunted past, she’s thrust into a supernatural battle with a cursed sailor torn between duty and redemption—before the lighthouse becomes her prison and the lake her grave.
 
 
Game of Chance
(Book 3, Men of the Double K)
American Historical (1890s)
 
For three years Johnny Kennedy has kept his mind focused on his studies. Now in his senior year at university, the mysterious Tessa Montgomery has caught his eye at a card game.

Tessa’s family lost everything in a game of chance to a man called Kennedy. When she meets Johnny during a card game she believes it was his family who destroyed the Montgomery name.

The stakes couldn’t be higher for Johnny—will he be able to restore his family name and keep his heart stashed away?

Can Tessa get Johnny to fall for her—to trust her—while she seeks satisfaction in destroying him?

Or has the King of Hearts stacked the deck?
 
 
Message in the Wine
(Letters to Santa Collection)
Contemporary
 
All (NAME) asked Santa for this Christmas was to be swept off her feet, but there aren’t any old-school gentlemen out there anymore.

A man who treats a woman like a lady. A man who shows his respect for her.

A man who is happy to see her. A man who believes in courtship.

A man who believes in giving his heart to only her.

Santa's good but not that good in finding the kind of man that either doesn’t exist or is near extinction—

Can Santa bring (NAME) someone to fall hopelessly and seamlessly in love with this Christmas?
 
 

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