Women's Fiction Author
“I think of my writing simply in terms of pleasure. It’s the most important thing in my life: making things. Much as I love my husband and children, I love them only because I am the person who makes things. I, who I am, is the person who has the project of making a thing. And because that person does that all the time, that person is able to love all those other people.”
~A. S. Byatt
Current projects
I Thought It Was You
Trauma nurse Delaney Mitchell doesn’t believe in soulmates. She’s built a career on whisking patients out of the hospital and prides herself on never needing saving. But when a rogue pothole and a public faceplant send her sprawling across a cracked Chicago sidewalk and into a stranger’s path, the concept doesn’t feel so foreign. Nate’s an aspiring chef with admittedly criminal taste in ice cream, but his ambitions meet her own and he wears his heart on his sleeve when it comes to serving the people of Chicago. Just as she dares to believe she may have stumbled headfirst into something real, the newly constructed Sinclair Tower collapses, throwing the city into chaos and tearing Nate from Delaney’s life as quickly as he entered.
Haunted by their brief encounter and the sense that something remarkable slipped through her fingers, Delaney throws herself into a year-long search to find him while working to heal a city torn at its seams. But the cost of her obsession grows steep: her best friend, Pride League slugger Travis, falls in love without her realizing; her sister Lenny’s fragile sobriety slips as she struggles to raise a teenager; and Delaney nearly loses a patient to her distraction. If she can’t let go of one extraordinary afternoon, she’ll learn the greatest risk isn’t losing the one who got away; it’s refusing to move on.
I Thought It was You will appeal to readers of Your Soulmail is Attached by Joan F. Smith and The Lies That Bind by Emily Giffin—emotionally grounded women’s fiction that explores love, loss, and life reshaped by sudden upheaval, perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Emily Belden.
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The Overtakers
Interior architect Sadie Gilbert has lost her husband, their business, and her best friend in a divorce that leaves her seriously considering an asexual relationship with a bottle of shiraz. She drifts through life in a Central West End apartment with her half-brother, unsure what comes next or how long her dwindling inheritance will last. Then she meets The Overtakers. The uncouth sisterhood lives loudly and unapologetically in a world where women don’t apologize for ambition, pleasure, or power. At the center is Carinne, a third-wife St. Louis socialite who rules the others with velvet-gloved authority: Rachelle, the trophy wife with humanitarian ambitions; Micky, the grip-life-by-the-balls brewmaster; Vic, the wannabe reality TV star; and Asa, the quiet stay-at-home mom trapped in a violent marriage.
Sadie quickly discovers Carinne’s influence runs deeper than expensive dinners and exclusive parties. When she learns Carinne has been bribing the local police chief to handle Asa’s abusive husband, Sadie wants to believe the power is being used for Asa’s protection. But as Sadie’s pulled deeper into the Overtakers’ world of secret clubs, lavish indulgence, and carefully orchestrated loyalty, she suspects Asa’s safety is another ploy Carinne will use to keep the women exactly where she wants them. Sadie can’t walk away now. But staying could mean becoming the next woman trapped in Carinne’s web.