Photo by Sue Phelps Photography
Growing up under the big sky of western Canada and spending summers in a little Ontario town, books were my passport to other worlds. Pioneering Laura Ingalls, Jo March and her sisters, the English girls in Noel Streatfeild’s books and L.M. Montgomery’s independent, nature-loving heroines all became friends.
I started writing poems and stories in elementary school and, as a teenager, reached the semi-finals in a local short story contest. Even after all these years, I still remember the thrill of the judge encouraging me to keep writing.
Then life and work intervened, and I set aside the craft of fiction to study, teach and, most recently, work in marketing communications and international business development.
Along the way, though, I read romances and women’s fiction, escaping into a world where characters grew and changed their lives for the better and found happy endings. And one day, I realized that by losing my creative writing, I’d also lost part of what makes me who I am.
Now I write the kind of stories I like to read–heartwarming romance and uplifting women’s fiction about finding home, family and community–where ordinary women overcome sometimes extraordinary challenges to earn hopeful, happy endings.
My most recent release, The Wishing Tree in Irish Falls, came out in e-book in October 2019 with the paperback to follow in April 2020.
I’m an RWA® Golden Heart® finalist 2015 in Contemporary Romance, and that manuscript released in January 2017 as The Cottage at Firefly Lake. Two more books followed in the Firefly Lake series—Summer on Firefly Lake (July 2017) and Back Home at Firefly Lake (December 2017).
After many years in England with my husband, a tech guy who’s still a small-town boy at heart, and our teen daughter, an English rose, who teaches me to cherish the blessings in the everyday, I’ve come home to my roots and live and write in a small town in the Rideau Valley in Eastern Ontario, Canada.
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