A Passion for Puppers!

    My life is extra busy these days and that means I had to let something go. After spending several years as director of a small dog rescue, helping with advocacy and fostering, we had to hang up our no-vacancy sign. The dogs pictured above are the ones who spent time under our roof…

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TELL ME WHY!

TELL ME WHY, Book 14 of Hart’s Ridge is now available for pre-order here: https://amzn.to/4ortTZuThank you for falling in love with the Gray sisters and Hart’s Ridge!

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In 2008 I returned from China after a nearly 5-year living stint. I was broken. I felt hopeless because I was leaving behind what I felt was my reason for being. My passion. The thing that brought out the true me. I had started, organized, and led a volunteer group in a local orphanage. As…

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Just Released! Book 12 of Hart’s Ridge

  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Heart Wrenching Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2025 You’re already in too far. And you don’t even know how deep the water goes yet. Don’t forget who you were, baby. That’s how you remember who you want to be. WOW! Another heart wrenching story. A family…

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Blackbird (A Hart’s Ridge Novel)

Chapter One Life was strange. One day you’re going along, and everything is fine—or at least your definition of fine at the time, minus the usual challenges that just being human throws at you—and then suddenly it’s upside down and the only friend you have is a Blackbird. For the woman trapped in the confines…

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What a Year 2023 Was for Me!

  Can you all feel my wave of exhaustion from where you are? 2023 kicked my butt in regard to my writing career. I set a goal to write and publish 8 books in the Hart’s Ridge series and I did it! I won’t say there wasn’t desperation, long hours, and gnashing of teeth involved,…

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Time and Tiana Kay

  Nine years gone.. in the blink of an eye. It’s not her birthday. I’m just melancholy because the baby pic came up in my FB memories and I can’t believe how fast my granddaughter is growing up. On the other hand, I’m starting to see the woman she will become. She’s a very serious…

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What In the World?

  I’ll admit that until one of 2023’s natural disasters affected me personally with my daughter and her losing everything in the Maui fires, I didn’t pay close enough attention to what was happening everywhere around the world in such a short time. It feels like it’s just boom, boom, boom. One disaster after another.…

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My Maui Girl and the Maui Fires

It’s surreal what has happened in the last few days on Maui and our family is reeling but so thankful that by pure coincidence or Grace of God, our daughter was here with us in Georgia visiting when the fires broke out on the island. Their home and vehicles were decimated, and they do not…

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