Expendable ... futuristic romantic suspense

Children with no birth records and a soldier with PTSD together must define the value of human life.

Within days of identifying her estranged sister’s body, Jenna Mosier is abducted at knifepoint, drugged, and left for dead on a mountain. She awakes in a remote mountain cabin with a man she’s never met. Her own life is now at stake unless she uncovers the mystery of her sister’s death.  Her only clue is the bloody note police found clutched in her sister’s hand asking for someone to save her baby. The problem is there is no record of a baby being born in the last ten years.

Former Marine Special Ops, Reed Adler, retired from the military after back-to-back missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. All he wants is to live away from the world in his mountain cabin in a small town. That ideal is shattered when he is faced with a dead body and a terrified ten year old boy practically in his backyard, along with a mesmerizing woman who’s tied to both. Soon he finds himself caught up in a dangerous mystery of seemingly expendable children that is more complex than any mission he’s faced before..

Eternity ...futuristic romantic suspense

Living 800 years is like the fountain of youth for some...and for others it's worse than a death sentence.

Eternity is the owner of a virus that allows humans to live up to 800 years. Miki Yokoyama leads a rebel organization known as the Agers. Their purpose is to create a counter agent to reintroduce "natural" death, no matter the cost. When Eternity learns of the Ager plan, they send their best agents to infiltrate the Ager organization and to sabotage any efforts to distribute a counter-virus.

Rohin Chawla and Miki were science partners and passionate lovers when they originally discovered the Eternity virus in Antarctica two hundred years ago. But each chose a different path to fight Eternity. When they meet again, Rohin realizes he must rally his resources to stop the Ager virus or risk the only viable future he sees.

But no one can foresee the extent human treachery will go when there are astronomical profits and world-wide political power at stake. Will Rohin and Miki combine forces against a greater evil, or fight each other over prolonged life or natural death? Their decision will determine who survives—and, ultimately, the outcome of humanity's future.

Undertones . . . romantic women's fiction

Balancing a career and a relationship is never easy, and it's even harder when you are on the road and everyone wants a piece of you.

Becoming a member of an all-woman acoustic band on the bluegrass festival circuit was certainly not what Michele Scott had envisioned for herself as a young music major. A pop star is what she'd set out to be. Instead, she found her soul in an upright bass and the mountain music that some called “hick.” Just three weeks before Michele’s band sets out on their first tour she collides with the mesmerizing and irresistible Jason Blackstone—a man whose startling blue-green eyes and commanding presence make her insides melt like a spent candle. But Michele's last romance ended in heartbreak over her choice of career. She's worked far too hard to risk trying to manage a career and life on the road with a long distance relationship.

Healing Notes . . . romantic women's fiction

Forgiving yourself is the first step, but helping others forgive may be just too hard.

Rachel Cullen grew up in Scotland with a fiddle in her hand from the age of four. She couldn't imagine life as anything but a musician. When her husband brought her to America she was immediately embraced by the Celtic and Bluegrass communities. But her life is a mess. A divorce, followed by a year of trying to prove to herself that she's woman enough for any man, and then a vicious rape while on tour with the band leaves Rachel reeling. When she meets a simple English teacher and poet with a child who is suffering from his own divorce, she's not ready to take on a new relationship. First, Rachel must reconcile who she is, what she wants, and how to get there.

CHILDREN'S

Many years ago I worked with developmentally disabled children and their families in Utah. One of the projects I spent a lot of time on was developing a program to help these children learn to read. At that time I published a SF children's story specifically developed to use all of the words and phonetic sounds a fourth grade level reader should be able to use. It was published by Utah State University press. It was my first foray into fiction and publishing, as well as my first exposure to the SF world. Thanks to many talented people in Utah, the project was a success. We were able to help children, reading at more than two years behind grade level, come up to grade level within six months. It was very rewarding. As for my book, it had a good run for about six years and I've been making up stories ever since.