I've yet to publish any books, so this page is kind of a tease. The best I can do is tell you a little about the books that are in the planning stage and/or partly written.

Contemporary Romance

Bikini Quartet is a contemporary romance series based on four women who are in a jazz fusion ensemble together. They live on the coast of North Carolina (an area I know very well) and each woman has a book devoted to her and her journey to happily ever after.

String Bass Beach
Sierra is a middle-aged, long-legged, bass playing, hard knocks blonde, who men fall all over themselves to get next to, but she loves'em leaves'em until her best friend dies and Sierra has to step into the mommy role and find a way to gain the trust and respect of her best friend's bitter widow, who blames Sierra for his wife's death. Can she and her best friend's husband come to terms with the events that led up to the death of the best friend? Can Sierra allow herself to love a man, even after she vowed to never get too emotionally involved with a man again? Is she betraying her deceased friend by falling for her husband? Can he ever forgive Sierra, much less love her? And what about how the little girl caught in the middle of it all? What's best for her?

Riptide Riff
Mazelle, aka Crazy Mazy, is a wild, early twenties cutie. She's the spunky, redheaded drummer who drives around in a purple psychodelic hearse, claiming when you change the way you view death, you start living. Her biker parents cut out on her and her twin brother, Earl the Squirrel, when they were sophmores in high school and now she and her brother are super tight. Mazy doesn't care for polo shirt wearing preps, but when she gets to know one who breaks out of the stereotype, she's smitten, problem is, Earl the Squirrel has a new girlfriend, the prep's ex-fiance', the one Earl stole right out from under him, the one whose fiance' broke Earl's nose and busted out his front tooth. Does she allow herself to fall for the prep or stick by the only family she really has? Can she have it all, even when it looks like Earl is intent on marrying this girlfriend?

Seaglass Sonata
Caroline is a thirty-something classically trained pianist and jazz keyboardist, she's also a piano teacher who is hired to work with the autistic son of a single father. The single father has never spent much one on one time with his son, until his wife left them both. Caroline is faced with the task of not only teaching a hard to reach student, she also struggles to find of way for music to build a bridge between the father and his son so they can communicate and bond. Along the way, she falls in love with them both, but decides to keep that to herself when the mother comes back. Will the father figure it out before it's too late? Does he love Caroline? Will he welcome his wife back into his life and try to make their marriage work now that he's a better father? How does his son feel about all of this; will he be able to voice it?

Dolphin Serenade
Leah is gogeous and forty. She is the envy of her friends. She has an adoring husband and her very own dress shop featuring her one of a kind designs. All of that comes to a tragic end when her husband is killed in a plane crash. To make matters worse, she's left with financial troubles and must sell her shop and move in with her grandmother, who has alzheimers. An LA photographer, and devoted father of two teens, comes to Wilmington to work on a movie and is quite taken with Leah when he finds her playing her saxophone to the dolphins. He reaches out to her, but she withdraws, not ready for romance. He continues to contact her anonymously via her online journal and they form a friendship. Will she trust him when she finds out who he really is? And if she does learn to trust him, how can they build a future when their family demands require them to live on opposite sides of the nation?


STEAMPUNK

Brass Christmas Wedding Bells  a holiday steampunk romance novel

 A masterpiece should be shared with the public unless written by a woman. This is the asinine philosophy a Amelia Wilcot, a young female, nineteenth century composer must overcome with the help of Conrad, the young man she's loved all her life, unbeknownst to him. Conrad Barton is a second year medical student who has dreams of becoming a doctor so he can return to his hometown and make a positive difference in the health conditions of the working class there, but his cousin Frederick Purcell brings that dream to a halt when he gains control of the family estate. During Christmas break, Conrad falls in love with Amelia while helping her pursue her dreams, but after doing so, he's forbidden to see her and left penniless. Frederick is on a mission to marry her himself and blackmails her father, a great inventor. How much can the love between these two ambititious and talented individuals stand before they let go and move on? Even if they can't be together, ever, will their love survive without a happily ever after in sight?

Holiday Steampunk Series... I'm pondering with the idea of taking a satellite character from Brass Christmas Wedding Bells and writing another holiday steampunk romance based around her and Independence Day. I might  even write other holiday steampunk novels to extend the series as characters introduce themselves to me and start whispering their stories in my ear. I like the idea of series. But for now,  I need to get these novels DONE before I become too distracted to finish anything at all.