TRACES OF DREAMS my mainstream novel, won the Romance Writers of Australia''s Romantic Book of the Year 2003(RBY) Award.
When everything you love and trust is destroyed by war, you can give up or you can carry on. Alicia's way is to carry on, and through two wars, illness, death and loss her indomitable spirit sustains her family for generations.
From her mother's example, Sara finds the courage to escape an intolerable situation and forge a new life in a new country.
Traces of Dreams moves from the horrors of the 1914-18 war to present times, and paints an unforgettable picture of a changing world and of working class people whose only riches are love and the knowledge that they did their best.
Major League ballplayer Justin Moore is kidnapped from his own ballpark and transported to a foreign land. It might take high-level international negotiations to free him. Or maybe he will take matters into his own hands.
Imogene, a country-bred girl, longs to make a life for herself in New York City. She joins forces with her former college roommate to start a movie production company in the big city.