Publications
Fiction
Novels & Short Stories
Letting Go of Sacred Things
Shy, unassuming Opal grows ever stronger through trial, love, and loss experienced between 1910 and 1981. This poignant saga depicts family dynamics and ten life-stages in the 20th Century's era of changing values.
"…more than mainstream; it's finely crafted literature. So subtle is the writing that the first time you read it, you want more." — Midwest Review
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Desert Time
Naïve but full of dreams, Matilda Beaumont marries a virtual stranger, a man more focused on the call of the New Mexico Territory than the realities of life in 1857 St. Louis. Only her prideful dignity and an all-consuming self-confidence gives Tildy the courage to endure.
"Passionate. Poignant. Powerful." — Parris Afton Bonds, Founder of RWA
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Meeting People
Seven fiction stories for adults reading at the Third and Fourth Grade levels — from 1810 England to the Old West, a modern mystery, and three love stories spanning the 1930s to today.
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Bikes and Badges
A principled NE State Trooper discovers a FBI undercover biker babe tracking drugs and murder in his territory.
Love, Guns, or Grace
An insecure vicar defies a violent past only to confront vengeance and love threatening his beliefs in 1870s Wyoming.
Please Believe
A talented Chicago reporter and an intellectual schoolteacher butt heads over NE baseball and Chicago crime in 1894.
Until the Horsewhisperer
Haunted by vengeance, a gifted Scottish horseman helps a self-reliantly defiant girl hunt wild horses for the Army in 1874 Nebraska.