I come from a unique family—my father, a Navy “fly-boy,” built two of his own planes in the garage of our San Diego home. My mother is a world-renowned doll restoration artist. (She corrected me when I called her a “doll doctor.”) So you see my writing career is really quite tame.
My dreams of becoming a published writer took root when my children were young and I entered a national magazine contest and placed with a short story. Since then I’ve had non-fiction articles published in the field of nursing and writing along with several fiction contest finals. When I sent The Light Keeper, my first completed full-length manuscript, to the Romance Writers of America 2005 Golden Heart Contest, it made it to the finals in the short historical category (out of 1000 entries) and was picked up by Harlequin Historicals for publication. The title? The Angel and the Outlaw.
Along with my fiction writing career, I work as an obstetrical nurse and sonographer for high risk pregnancies.
Currently, I live in the Midwest with my husband and sons and am working on my next book.
