Cover art by AngieOCreations.com – I love this cover I’ve always been fascinated by the power of certain settings to wield control over so much of our lives. When the universal themes of survival, love, and the dreams that drive human men and women interact with extreme environments, lives can be transformed in unexpected ways. In IF YOU LOVED ME, I plunged a busy Seattle doctor into a remote wilderness in a desperate search for her son. When the setting is remote – like the

I’ve just released The Broken Gate, a new short story. The Broken Gate Jennifer Sandborn fled personal tragedy to serve as a humanitarian aid worker, promising her husband she would return in a few months. Two years later she returns in the middle of the night. Everything feels familiar, but nothing is the same. “Tomorrow morning she would wake up under the duvet in the chilly house, safe from wars and death and tragedy. She would stretch out her hand with her eyes closed and