I have been a lifelong writer and reader. My first book was completed when my children were just a dream, and my books take a flavor of my life at different times. I write what I like to read, and I write for my own entertainment. I just hope that others enjoy the experience as much as I do!
Vengeance is an addiction, a need, a necessity.
Vengeance is all Samantha is living for.
They took her dignity; they caused her pain.
They will pay.
Samantha has come a long way from being the daughter of Satan’s right hand man. She’s been burned down to her soul, and she’s back to find the one who ordered her torture. Together with her best friend, an order of militant nuns, and a tech wizard, she’s out to take down the leader of the movement. In the battle between good and evil, faith and vengeance are all that are left.
This thriller is a continuation of the Victor McCain series, telling Samantha’s story between the events of The Speaker and Revenge.
Samantha Tyler is a kick-ass, take-no-prisoners kind of girl. She lives by her own set of slightly broken rules, and the drummer she marches to has cloven hooves.
She’s having just another normal day as a vigilante on the good side of the supernatural until an alarming call from her mentor, Sister Evangeline, prompts a trip across the sea to the Abbey of Sainte Aelis in France. One of the nuns and a local village woman are missing, unusual enough, but there are ominous whispers in the air leading everyone to believe an unholy creature is responsible.
When the trail of carnage leads back to a remote cabin in Kentucky, Samantha discovers a new horror is sipping the living soul from its victims. With the help of her best friend, Alex, the mysterious Abe Shepherd, and the enigmatic Declan, she uncovers one of the oldest and most fantastically alluring threats to mankind.
Clare is a determined woman ready to launch into her new life. She just needs a little money to do it. When she goes to a historical home under renovation to help with the massive cleaning job, she is anxious to do her task and do it well. However, the house, Talitha, has other plans.
Pit against spirits she can’t see and caught between her best friend and the foreboding owner of the house, she must use her own gifts to journey from death to life.
DEARLY DEPARTED: GRAVE REMINDERS BOOK 1
Dorothy, or Dot to her friends, is the slightly eccentric daughter of the town’s funeral director. Her art is the only medium that she can express herself with, but it sets her apart. Until she meets him. He walks the cemetery looking for something. Something he cannot explain. In him she finds an acceptance she has never had. Yet to keep him, she has to help him find what he has lost. Whether it brings him home to her, or ends his existence completely.
DEARLY REMEMBERED: GRAVE REMINDERS BOOK 2
When Tori’s parents are tragically killed in a car accident and she is forced to move to a small Kentucky town, she feels that her life is over.
But in her new home, she discovers a series of secrets that may reveal an unknown world. After meeting a young man with extraordinary talents, she finds herself embroiled in several mysteries, including the disappearance of a child, stolen treasure, and a hint of something supernatural. When her home and family are threatened, she realizes solving them could be the only way to save lives, including her own.
DEARLY BELOVED: GRAVE REMINDERS BOOK 3
She walks in her dreams.
Savannah finds herself at the site where her brother lost his life, but she knows it cannot be real. Neither is the man that stops to help her on the roadside. Until she meets the man in the light of day and realizes that he is no fictional character conjured from her imagination.
Dreams are not always what they seem.
This realization leads her to revisit the place of her brothers’ accident; where one twin was left dead and the other a changed man. After a confrontation with the latter, she realizes that there is more to the mystery of her dreams than she ever imagined.
As the two chase down an ancient religious artifact and the rumors surrounding it, one figure in the night wishes to stop and silence them forever.
Silent as a grave.
Who would believe the words of a bird brain, anyway? When Camille inherits Simon, an African grey parrot from her deceased neighbor, she sees the challenge of owning such a noisy, spoiled pet. But when the music plays, and Simon starts to replay a violent scene in the voice of his former owner, Camille begins to realize that she has inherited more than she bargained for. Could a bird really recall the last moments of his owner’s life? And stranger yet, could he really be repeating a death scene that he witnessed? Camille’s best friend, Leo, has his doubts, and after the disappearance of Camille’s sister, he wonders if her tragic past is coming back to haunt her and she is finally breaking down. But she has no one else to go to, no one besides the questionable other neighbor who might well have been involved with the murder victim. It’s a question of a bird’s word against the truth and a race to find out what it all means.
Ainsley doesn’t have much experience with pets, especially with fluffy feathered ones who want to sleep in her bed and eat her breakfast. When she finds a cockatoo in her yard, she is unaware of the adventures that will result from his accidental landing. After locating his owner, she is introduced to an entire cast of fascinating characters. But there is someone after the bird. From a search for a lost piece of valuable artwork, to a trip with a pirate, Ainsley’s life has taken a turn toward danger. Gabe, the cockatoo’s owner, has his hands full trying to keep them safe from whoever is after his inheritance. Can anyone blame Ainsley for losing her head, and her heart, to the adorable pair?
What does an uptight scientist, a freewheeling veterinarian, a pirate wanna be, and a massive parrot have in common?
When Hemingway, the Green Wing Macaw that is her father’s best friend and constant companion, shows up on her doorstep, Genevieve wants nothing more than to return him. He’s messy, loud, and an irritating reminder of her wayward parent. However, her father has disappeared without a word, and she has no idea how to find him.
Reluctantly, she sets out on a road trip with a family friend, a silky voiced veterinarian with a bad case of disorganization, to Florida to hunt down the parrot’s owner and return him. Faced with constant roadblocks and some real hints of danger, they attempt to track down her father.
Will they be in time to help save a vital piece of Florida’s legacy and her father?
“Someone is watching. The thought came unbidden into her mind, but once planted, refused to be budged. It was suddenly not just a suspicion, but a fact. Someone is watching me. And dead men don’t tell.”
Hope’s life changed forever when she lost her father to a prolonged illness. Her move to Florida, to the little town of Fort Myers Beach, seemed like the perfect way to start over. Hope loves the warmth, the beach and fantastic sunsets, and her new avian friend, Blossom, a young cockatiel who has also been rehomed.
But the charming Inn where she begins her new job is harboring its own secrets. By moving in and taking over the position of housekeeper, Hope begins to realize that someone doesn’t want her there.
Hope wants to remain aloof, to embrace her independence, but the family that owns the Inn persists in drawing her into their circle, all except the prickly Lincoln who has his own suspicions about her.
Hope knows that she can’t continue on her own, and is aware that she needs help to face up to whoever is terrorizing the Inn and the family. But history seems to be repeating itself, and the threats are becoming more and more terrifying. Hope must either run, or turn and fight for her new life.
What would you do to save your neighbors when a serial killer comes to town?
Lenore doesn’t quite fit in Lawrence, Indiana.
Tattoos, goth clothes, and loud music are rare.
Her old dog and a talking raven as roommates, rarer still.
And being the granddaughter of the town’s only reputed witch and best friends with a brilliant autistic girl, rarest of all.
Then bodies start turning up, and Lenore must act.
She will have to pair up with another misfit, the quirky and undeniably wealthy Ramsey who thinks he’s a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, to stop the murderer.
It’s a race to solve the mystery before the killer strikes again.
There are bodies turning up in the quarry.
The little town of Lawrence is turned upside down.
And when Lenore heads back to her ancestral home, Ramsey is back.
Lenore likes her town, her quirky friends, her tattered raven, and her old pitbull. She likes being a little different, and living in the ‘witch’s castle’ doesn’t bother her at all. Until the bodies show up in her backyard.
Now she and Ramsey must solve the mystery before an old murder becomes a modern-day tragedy.
Lenore’s life has taken a fantastic shift.
One cryptic letter from her father, and Lenore needs to know more.
Then he disappears.
Now Lenore and Ramsey are on a hunt for the one person who can give Lenore an answer about her family’s history.
What is her supernatural lineage? Who is Ramsey? Why is he so important to her?
Lenore search for answers intensifies when she discovers a danger that threatens them both.
The clock is ticking. Can Lenore discover the truth before it’s too late?
Can a dog detect a ghost?
When Cilla is paid to investigate an abandoned mansion, she expects to find nothing.
But she’s very wrong.
Now Cilla and Smith her partner, along with her loyal canine, Fargo, have been asked to return.
But although Cilla’s a paranormal investigator who can talk to the dead, some spirits don’t want to be disturbed.
Now the entity is possessing the house, and no one is safe. Cilla must find the source of the haunting and help it find release before it destroys everything in its path.
Can a ghost kill?
When Cilla’s latest client turns up dead, she suspects the worst…
Could his murder have something to do with his haunted real estate?
Cilla and her two partners – one a nerd, the other a canine – start to uncover the shocking truth.
But although Cilla’s a paranormal investigator who can talk to the dead, some corpses are determined to keep their secrets buried.
Should she trust the gorgeous Paxton who says he’s writing a book about spirits? Or should she keep the truth to herself? Too soon she realizes that the killer is among them and will do anything to get away. Cilla must stay one step ahead of the killer or become a ghost herself.