UPDATES: 

 

I'm pleased to announce my short story "Barn Owl" is published in the anthology NIGHTBIRD SINGING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT (September, 2009).  "Barn Owl" is my first published fiction.  Read more about the anthology by clicking on the link below.   

 

My romantic short story, "Peach-Flavored Kiss," will be published in Woman's World magazine in their issue on sale December 21, 2009. 

 

A troubled mother and a parole officer never plan to see each other again after an adulterous one-night stand, but fate dictates otherwise when their families intertwine.   Both have a positive influence on the other’s family members, but the guilty consciences Rose and Quinn suffer from because of their tryst fuels animosity between them.   Hiding the truth about their one secret act is easy enough for these protective parents, but concealing their resentment for each other is not, and as the heat in this southern drama intensifies family bonds will be tested, abiding love will gain momentum, and exceptional lies must be told. 

 

 

 

 

When New York journalist Lexi Gray witnesses a horrific assassination, she's placed  in the Witness Security Program and sent to New Mexico.  On a ranch surrounded by miniature horses, she falls in love with the U.S. Marshal who helps her adjust to her new identity as Lucy Graves.  

 

But about his identity...

 

 

 

Perhaps Jacy should sense a storm will follow winning a hundred thousand dollars at a miniature golf course designed around a Noah’s Ark theme, but the only thing the veterinarian senses is the red-haired boy playing behind her has mischief in mind.  The eleven-year-old shoves Jacy during the golf swing that nets her the hole-in-one jackpot, but her good fortune sours when the boy’s interference is misconstrued as kind assistance after Jacy makes a disparaging remark about him on television. Thrown into a media circus, Jacy is falsely portrayed as cruel and will lose everything if not for the actions of a bashful apple farmer and a handsome celebrity.

 

 

When a teenage eyewitness describes an arsonist to sketch artist Irene Slavick, she’s horrified when he instead points to a sketch she drew of her beloved father, claiming he's the arsonist.  She submits a random sketch of a deceased John Doe to the Police Chief instead of the sketch of her father, and is caught in a moral dilemma when a man who resembles her John Doe sketch is arrested for the arsons.