
Land’s End. The Green Flash. The high Sierra. Cowboys and golden gates. Welcome to the West Coast, where happily-ever-after is state-of-the-heart. Welcome to seven heart-warming love stories set on the west coast. A second-chance summer in the Sierra-Nevada mountains re-introduces a bull rider hoping for one last shot at the golden ring and a hotel exec on the verge of obliterating the glass ceiling of her NYC job. Both can think of a million reasons not to fall in love. A small-town single mom’s reunion with her first love—a successful LA film director—comes with the knowledge he might be her teenage son’s biological father. With their marriage on the rocks, the last thing two San Francisco lawyers need is her father’s land war coming between them. A single barracuda-in-heels loses her footing—and her job, but finds her soul mate. After a tragedy straight out of the headlines, a Central Valley cowboy dad reaches out for help for his young daughters and connects with a nearly burnt-out family counselor looking for a change…until love helps four hearts heal together. In Oregon, a recently single dad/chef does his best not to fall for his dog’s groomer—a single mom with twins, but his Great Dane has other plans.
Author

- Born and raised in Brookings, South Dakota. Youngest of five (much youngest). A Baby Boomer who married her high school sweetheart (our lockers were side-by-side). Mother of two, grandmother of three darling princesses, dog mother of 2.5 mutts.
- Graduate of South Dakota State University with a Master’s degree in Geography and History.
- Job history: taxi driver, flax seed counter, cartographer, rural mail carrier, substitute teacher, secretary/community liaison for Merced College’s Child Development Center, bookkeeper, journalist, author.
- First sale story: June, 1999, to Harlequin Superromance. Total number of books sold to Harlequin =27.
- Honors and awards: Romantic Times BOOKreviews, 2006 Series Storyteller of the Year. Winner: Best Superromance of 2010: Until He Met Rachel. Nominated for Desert Quill in 2008.
- First book published by Tule Press, summer 2014: Cowgirl Come Home. The Big Sky Mavericks series opens Aug. 2014 with: Nobody's Cowboy.