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Fifteen years.

I honestly had to sit with that number for a minute.

It’s been about fifteen years since I first wrote the Divorced Divas mysteries, and when I recently went back to these books, I found myself thinking about the author I was when I wrote them.

My career was still so new.

I was figuring out publishing.

I was learning what kind...


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One of the first questions readers ask me after finishing Bound by Secrets is:

“Is that rare book real?”

The short answer is…

Parts of it are.

One of my favorite things about writing cozy mysteries is weaving real history into fictional stories. I love taking something readers may have heard about, adding a little imagination, and building a myster...


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Behind the Book: Building Sadie Whitfield
When readers first meet Sadie Whitfield, she’s standing at one of the biggest crossroads of her life.

She doesn’t know it yet.

She believes she’s taking a quick trip to Normal, Kentucky to track down a rare book before heading back to New York. It’s supposed to be a simple detour. A temporary stop. A chance to solv...


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What if you could step into a charming small town dressed in twinkling lights, wander through a cozy bookstore, sip hot chocolate with friends, collect keepsakes, and celebrate Christmas one magical stop at a time?

That’s exactly what you’ll find in Christmas in Normal.

Originally created as a special Christmas in July event for my reader comm...


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