Hands down, the Secrets of Redemption series has been the most challenging of all my writing. It has also provided me with the most breakthroughs. (Isn’t that the way it always goes? We learn more from our challenges and failures than from our successes or what’s easy.) In March 2015, roughly six months after the […]
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Chapter 1 “I can’t believe it.” Mia dropped her phone on the butcher block kitchen table with a clatter, a stunned look on her face. “Penny Schroeder is dead.” “Oh, that’s too bad,” I said. Admittedly, I was only half-listening as I stood behind the counter, measuring dried lavender for the custom tea blends I
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All my life, I had loved reading fairy tales and myths. As a child, some relative (likely one of my grandmothers but I can’t remember now) had bought me the original Grimm’s fairy tales, which I devoured. (I’m not sure if whoever bought it realized how dark some of them were, but quite honestly, it
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The Taking Chapter 1 It started like any other day. My alarm woke me, dragging me out of an exhausted, unsatisfying sleep. Between my night terrors and inability to quiet my mind, it was a constant battle to get enough rest. I stumbled to the kitchen to get the first pot of coffee started—I went
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It’s here! Another installment in The Riverview Mysteries series. Check it out: It’s on preorder and set for a July 12, 2022 release date. Here’s a sneak peek at the description: Twenty-four years ago, five-year-old Tori walked into her newborn brother’s room in the middle of the night and discovered a figure abducting him. The only
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For all of you audio lovers, it’s finally here! January LaVoy, who won a Voice Arts Award for her narration of It Began With a Lie, is back to narrate Book 4, The Summoning, of my award-winning Secrets of Redemption series! Listen in: Available now to preorder with a publication date of May 18, 2021.
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Full disclosure: I’ve been wanting to start a virtual book club for like, well, forever. (Yes, I’ll admit it. I’m jealous of Oprah and Reese Witherspoon.) I can’t tell you how many times I thought to myself “one day, I would love a book club just like Oprah and Reese have.” Until the one day
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What better way to start 2021 off than with a brand new book that was just released in 2020. I’ve complied a list of new books from indy authors to check out, as it’s always fun to find a new fave author. (And, of course, I’ve included my two releases as well.) Enjoy! It all
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