Rita grew up on a barrier island on Florida’s east coast. She married a Marine, lived many places and traveled to the states and countries she didn’t live. She’s experienced the highs and lows of military and government life and is grateful for each experience.  She writes suspense thrillers weaving her experiences into her story telling. Her heroes and heroines are either in the military or government service because she writes what she knows. Her father was in the Coast Guard and immediate family served in every branch of the service as desk jockeys, grunts, pilots and everything in between.