Having gone to college for Journalism/Communications, I ended up in a career as a technical writer and then my favorite job - mommy. As my children have grown so has my love for writing fiction, and since my first love as a reader was Agatha Christie, I've always enjoyed myystery with romance woven into the story. My fist novel Lake Meade was published last September because it won Oak Tree Press's Timeless Love contest. I am thrilled to see something I worked on alone in my office for years, without much hope it would ever see the light of day, now between-covers and in the hands of people who are enjoying it. I have sent out my last completed manuscript Such Beautiful Deadly Things to several publishers and agents and hope it finds a home as well. Currently, I'm writing a mystery-suspense that takes place in my former home town of New Hope, PA with a main character who owns a vintage clothing boutique, and has a secret past. The quiet life she so carefully built in New Hope is threatened by the FBI, blood thirsty reporters, a sexy Scientologist and a murder in her own shop - all while she tries not to fall in love with her best friend, a sexy Brit named Ian. About Lake Meade... Single-mother Maggie Granger runs a bed and breakfast and cares for her elderly grandfather, she doesn't have time to be accused of murder, or for the feelings Jack Callahan has stirred up since he returned to town...but that is exactly what she's got.  Here are some of the positive reviews for Lake Meade from these romance novel sites... From Romance Readers at Heart... http://romancereaderatheart.com/pubsandpromos/2008/sep08/LM_HM.html  From the Romance Studio... http://theromancestudio.com/reviews/reviews/lakemeadmosko.htm And From Coffetime Romance... http://www.coffeetimeromance.com/BookReviews/Lakemeade.html

My first novel, Lake Meade, was published as the winner of the Timeless Romance contest by Oaktree Press.