As an historian with a bachelors of science, I revel in finding out what makes society tick, the things that influence cultures, how families interact, why people do what they do. I collect stories from history, from my neighbors, from the news media and ask "what if?" What if that message cut into the neighbors tree meant more than a childhood romance? What happened to those people? What if one of them went to seek his fortune and returned to find his true love didn't wait? And a mystery was born - The Last Bequest. What if someone felt so guilty of being afraid to help another that they ran away? Only, like a nightmare, they ran into the same situation? What kind of person would relive her deepest fears in order to redeem herself? The story of a mysterious illness and the only one who could help him came from a family medical mystery - Healing Grace. What happens to all those people who disappear? Why can an older man and a much younger woman be acceptable in society more than younger men and older women? How far would someone go to prove love? These issues came together in Meander Scar. When nobody loves you, you have nothing to lose. Prejudice comes in all forms. Fall in love with UnderStory...every story is a layer of secrets and lies. Even the faithful are human...angst, misunderstanding, skeletons... The Last Detail A crazy doctor who just needs one more person to test his cure for cancer...a woman who is lost in her cancer recurrance...a hospice chaplain with secrets and a child neglected in all the worst ways collide in Innocents Pray. First Children of Farmington...Six children and their settler families share their stories of life on the frontier...not so very different from today. Also in ACX Audio.

Grace Award for inspirational fiction, Meander Scar
Wisconsin Writers Association best YA, The Saxon Boy