The Broken
A serial killer strikes,leaving behind only shattered mirrors
and broken lives.
Former broadcast journalist Kate Johnson is on the run, hiding from a knife-wielding madman who wants her dead and from a childhood that left her scarred. But when FBI profiler Hayden Reed vows to hunt down the serial killer known as the Broadcaster Butcher by first finding the one woman who survived the Butcher’s knife, Kate can’t hide anymore. Not from sexy FBI agent Hayden Reed who sees everything but feels nothing. And not from a madman who sees beauty and power in the blood.
Finalist - 2009 Golden Heart ®
Winner - 2008 Golden Pen
WInner - 2008 Kiss Of Death Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence, Single Title
Editor's Choice - 2008 SDSU Writer's Conference
The Lost
A mother’s guilt.A madman’s justice.
A hunt for the lost.
News librarian Taryn Wright is hiding. From a past that haunts her nights. And from a guilt that rules her days. But when a ten-month-old baby boy disappears from Taryn’s affluent Phoenix neighborhood, she can’t hide anymore. Not from her past. Not from the Phoenix police who’ve pegged her as a suspect. And not from Jon MacGregor, a child finder and former FBI hotshot with a troubled past of his own.
The hunted and the haunted, Taryn and Jon team up to find the missing Phoenix baby and clear Taryn’s name. Their search through the twilight sparks a passion neither of them expected and leads them to a brilliant psychopath playing games…and playing God.
Finalist - 2008 Golden Heart ®
Finalist - 2007 Golden Heart ®
Winner - 2007 Finally A Bride
The Buried - Work in Progress
It’s cold.And dark.
I can’t breathe….
Cypress Bend. A small southern bayou town filled with long-buried secrets. It’s also the home of successful, fiercely independent state prosecutor Grace Courtemanche who’s pulled into a world of terror and self-doubt when she begins to receive a series of phone calls from young women…buried alive.
In a race to stop a killer with a twisted need for revenge, Grace unearths skeletons from the past along with feelings for the one man she swore she’d never need again, Hatch Hatcher, a rootless, smooth-talking FBI negotiator who’s back in Cypress Bend to deal with a secret of his own.
The Bound - Work in Progress
Bound…by mistakes from her past
to a man with the power to destroy her future.
Special event planner Adeline Wells -- a buttoned-up, wanna-do-right former jewel thief -- craves respect and honor after a childhood filled with neither. She’s finally on the verge of both when Finn Brannigan, her former partner in crime and her father’s murderer, hunts her down for “one last score.”
What she doesn’t know is Finn Brannigan is now a jewelry and gem specialist with the FBI’s Special Criminal Investigative Unit, and he suspects that she’s the mastermind behind the California Ice Heists, a series of mega-dollar diamond thefts reminiscent of those pulled off by her long-dead father.
Adeline, aka Romi Swift, comes out swinging. She fights for honor. She fights for her business. She fights the shadowy figure who wants something from her less-than honorable past. And she fights Finn Brannigan, the boy she once worshipped and who long ago stole a piece of her heart.
Through The Shadows
A missing twin.A maze of deceit.
A chase through the shadows.
Public relations pro Madison Lyons is polite, proper and lives life according to "The Plan." But
when her sister disappears in the steamy jungles of South America, her sunny world plunges into darkness.
Renegade P.I. and former Tucson cop Court Lockwood has spent the past decade living in darkness.
A place well suited for hiding secrets.
Drawn into a tangle of blackmail, international smuggling and betrayal, Court and Maddie find themselves battling an unknown enemy. . . and each other. . . as they race through the shadows to find her sister, guarding their backs. . . and their hearts.
Finalist - 2005 Maggie
Finalist - 2005 Sheila