Hello, and welcome to my website. I hope you will look around and get to know me, and my characters of the novels I'm writing. I'm currently in the agenting process, so my novels aren’t available yet. Please check out my blog below, “Riptide – Nothing Below the Surface is What it Seems.” Here, you’ll find my musings about what’s important to me – writing, family, recipes and cooking, and this crazy thing called life.
I write about the two places I love most. The first is Galveston, Texas. In 1528, Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca declared Galveston the Isle of Doom after shipwrecking there, and many have fared similar or worse fates. Galveston Island has always been an area steeped in mystery. It was built by profiteers and philanthropists, organized crime and faith, families and sea farers, existing day-to-day at the whim of Mother Nature.
It’s said that Galveston is the end of the road, where Interstate 45 ends - and where strange people come to do strange things. As a lover of mysteries, I find this simply irresistible.
The second is my hometown of Dallas. The city's a fascinating mix of modern, high-tech sophistication and our state's cowboy and oil heritage. It's also the home of my character, arson investigator Captain Maggie Hayes, rising star of the Dallas fire department. She's not easily daunted. After all, everything’s bigger in Texas.
As a former Public Information Officer of Dallas’ fire department, I’m thrilled to be able to bring my experience walking aside the Department’s top fire investigators to the page.
Hercule Poirot: “Do not allow evil into your heart, it will make a home there.”
Jacqueline De Bellefort: “If love can’t live there, evil will do just fine.”
-Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie.
RIPTIDE
The Blog
Nothing below the surface is what it seems.
