Red Haze — a paranormal murder mystery

  Red Haze is a haunting psychological thriller that hovers between the spectral and the natural, blurring the lines between remembrance and regret, dedication and obsession, justice and revenge. Reviews “Fans of Lois Duncan (I Know What You Did Last Summer), as well as those who fondly remember the drama of college life, will find…

At Home in the Garden of Good and Evil

Partake of the fruit, my friend. The rewards are ours to reap; we have planted the seeds.   Let the sweetness linger on your tongue, catch in your throat the rewards are ours to reap.   Bent like daffodils, children in war torn starvation. Shining like sunbeams, mothers in radiant aggravation. Pouring like a fountain,…

Absalom’s Tresses

Your unmatched beauty drives chariots and men, a teeming throng. Yet you garrote your own throat with your barbed tongue. Your fine face betrayed                 when I told you, “You are the precious                                 last breath of a drowning man. You are rocks in my pockets.” You are my death. In your name, this…

The Wolf in His Arms: Chapter 1

The Wolf in His Arms is available Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. Buy Book One on Amazon! The Arrangement  Lucy groaned audibly and then flung her head back onto her bed. She looked up at the ceiling as she felt the headboard to her bed rattle from the thumping coming through the wall. She groaned again,…

Shadow boxing

our shadow boxing was a fight neither of us could win, a love neither could endure, a choreography neither could master when night falls fast, shadows meld with darkness and no one’s left to battle

girl in a coma

I: the mother                        I sit by your side as sleep blossoms                        within you, unfolding like a morning glory at dawn. Long ago                        the doctors sent you home. Friends no longer                        come to visit; they have children                        of their own to care for.  twenty-nine years                        you have lain here. never…

Cover reveal: The Wolf in His Arms

I’m excited to reveal the cover to THE WOLF IN HIS ARMS. The enovel will be available in mid-February. The cover was developed by artist Sandra Schroeder, themed after the cover of the first book in the series.

the cemetery gates

The echo of loss rings from beyond the cemetery gates as I pass by in wonder of lives and loves lost, always too soon, no matter the age. Weeping willows, winding streams, rolling hills, and monuments etched from stone stand sentinel beyond the cemetery gates where the specter of grief walks the rows alone, in…

Starfish

I love you like a starfish. When you break a piece off, I will grow another.