All Projects
Current projects (more to come soon on this list! Also, here are character faces for most of these stories):
Short piece in The Insecure Writer's Support Group Guide to Publishing and Beyond, available free!
The Flight of Time (contemporary romance)
Christianne and Rory's daughter Stephanie travels to Turkey...and stays. Her career takes off but her love life falters, because the man she's in love with, Taylor, is already engaged to another...
The Charm of Time (contemporary romance and mystery)
This is the book in which Christianne and Rory first meet and fall in love. There are six sequels exploring their relationship and their families!
The Handful of Time (contemporary romance and mystery)
In the first sequel to The Charm of Time, Christianne and Rory fight battles from their past, even as they solve a murder and try to evade a murderer that's coming much to close!
A Stitch in Time (contemporary romance (fertility issues))
This is the book in which Amelie (Christianne's daughter from her first marriage) and Angus (Rory's brother) begin their slow-burn relationship...
A Brace of Time (contemporary romance and mystery)
The story of Alex (Rory's son from his first marriage) and Sevda and a mysterious threat to their lives...
The Antipodean Time (contemporary romance and mystery)
Simon (Alex's twin) and Kimberley and their struggle to defy their parents' expectations and forge a new path for themselves, together.
The Future in Time (contemporary romance with a historical mystery)
In the second sequel to The Charm of Time, Christianne and Rory tackle a mystery from the distant past, all while dealing with health and family issues as everyone comes together for Christmas and Hogmanay, in the year 2038.
The Byzantine Time (contemporary romance with a historical mystery)
Christianne and Rory's daughter Stephanie travels to Istanbul to uncover long-buried family secrets
The Face of A Lion (middle grade, set in current year and AD 43)
Book One of the Rising Sea series
When thirteen-year-old Austin's parents drag him along to a villa in Turkey they've rented for the summer, he hunkers down and counts the days until he can get back home to his friends in England. But that's before he rescues a talking cat, witnesses a bloody ritual that causes two people to disappear, and finds himself whisked back in time.
Nearly two thousand years in the past, he makes a new friend--and a new enemy. A powerful evil wants to prevent Claudius the Emperor's invasion of Britain. Austin has to act fast to ensure that the invasion does take place--or time and civilization as he knows it will never be the same.
Book Two begins with Austin and Kedi at the Colosseum.
Out of the Water (historical romance, set in 1492)
Book One of the Middle Sea series
After she becomes separated from her family as they flee their Spanish homeland - and the Inquisition - the last thing eighteen-year-old Rosa expects to find is love.
Her one hope of reaching Constantinople and finding her family lies with a stranger, Baha, a Muslim artist from the Ottoman Empire. Rosa's drive to find her loved ones is matched by a deepening desire for the man at her side. Yet despite all his help in reuniting them, her family rejects this man of a different faith, forcing her to choose between them.
Constantinople was meant to be her family's refuge, but when janissaries arrest her father and brother, Rosa and Baha risk their lives on a daring rescue. Together they will prove that their love can withstand their differences... if the Sultan's Grand Vizier doesn't throw them both in the dungeons first.
Rome, Rhymes and Risk (historical romance, set in 1493)
Book Two of the Middle Sea series, featuring Ayten and Devran from Out of the Water
Ayten, an Ottoman girl kidnapped as a slave, is rescued and embarks on a voyage across the Mediterranean with her new friends, on their way to join Columbus' second voyage. She finds herself falling for the man who owns the ship: Devran, the son of the Grand Vizier.
Exiled for a crime he did not commit, Devran's also got one secret: before Ayten was kidnapped, her father had arranged for her to marry Devran.
Devran's been in love with Ayten for months - but having met him only after his exile, Ayten believes him a penniless rake. Their ship docks for a week at Venice, where Ayten turns her attentions to the Sultan's brother, Cem.
Can Devran prove his worth to her before they set sail again?
Captive of the Sea (historical romance, set in the 1470s)
Book Three of the Middle Sea series, featuring Santiago (Rosa's father) from Out of the Water
Back when he was a young sailor, Santiago travelled to England and fell in love with a Welsh girl called Mawdlen (Magdelana).
Mawdlen's involved in some shady activities, however, that soon get him into trouble. How can Santiago win her heart? Will she be willing to give up her life of intrigue as a spy to return with him to Spain?
Larksong (historical romance, set in Canada, 1914)
Here's a snip, and here are a few more snips, plus the theme and some research (and more research here)!
Here's a blurb I drafted in 2013 (!) and some photos of George (and some more George images here):
Reluctant debutante Alice Underwood is responsible for handling her grandmother's estate, but has no wish to dismantle a home -- and an aviary -- that has helped define who she is. Raised in an upper class family in Montreal and Toronto, she longs to find a place in the world based on her merits and not her father's wealth and position.
A brief misunderstanding with two young tenants at her grandmother's cottage gives Alice one last summer to live on her own terms, dropping her father's name and taking on the role of governess to a passel of girls.
The last thing she expected was their brother to come along as well -- their older, crabbier, nuisance of a brother. Yet Alice is sure there's a good man underneath that crusty exterior. Only how can she reach him when she's hiding her own identity?
Nursing a broken leg from a hockey injury and missing out on the Grand Tour of Europe all his friends have embarked on, George McKerrow is cantankerous on his best days. The bitterest pill is having to recover on his own, at a lakeside cottage miles from the entertainments in the city.
His sisters' governess is a good-looking, feisty young woman, but it would never do for a McKerrow to make a play for someone of such lower stature. Hiding his growing attraction for her under a surly attitude does him no good when the children pull a horrible prank and release all the birds in the aviary. Stuck in his wheelchair, George is useless at hunting for them -- and even if he wasn't Alice, would refuse his help.
Then the unthinkable happens -- Canada is at war. The sooner his leg heals, the sooner George can heed the call and join up. He's a brave man -- but can he gather his courage to declare his feelings to Alice before he goes?