Writing along the edge. That’s how I explain what I write. The edge might be the line between magic and reality, science and mysticism or life and death—or just beyond what we conceive of as death. Another dimension? An alternate reality? Some who remember, tell us we live many lives. I wanted to explore that in my writing. How would a past life affect this one? Do we retain tendencies from our previous lives? What do the shamans and wise ones have to share—from all times and places? My first novel, Dance the Dream Awake, emerged from déjà vu experiences that occurred while traveling in Mexico from Teotihuacan to Oaxaca and on to the Yucatan. By the time I reached the Mayan pyramids of Chichen Itza and Coba, I had the seeds of a story. But I didn’t begin writing it until months later. And so that first novel is about a past live intruding into a contemporary woman’s life through nightmares and visions. When the terror escalates to an unbearable level, she’s forced to try anything to stop them—even to going into the jungles of the Yucatan. This is a Romantic Suspense novel. From that story I began the story of Jack from that first novel. He’s motivated to romance Tessa for his own but then there is his past which might just be too much for Tessa. In that novel (to be called Dance the Edge) he has a past life as a samurai in ancient Japan. But that past life became so compelling that I had to stop and write it as a novel of its own first—the tender love story of Shino and Miyoshi, a sensual Romantic Suspense called Haiku Dance. It’s the hero’s journey of Shino, a boy on the verge of manhood in 980A.D. Japan, forced to leave his mountain home and his dear young female friend, to be trained as a samurai. Will he be able to return to Miyoshi, who it turns out is the love of his life, or will their lives part forever? So, now I am back to finishing Dance the Edge, third book in the Dance Series.