About My Books

I write romantic suspense in various settings. I've completed two fantasy stories. My current romantic suspense is a contemporary. Future projects include stories set in the future, and in the past - more specifically regency historicals.

Before writing full-length novels, I have written a few short stories. I have also written a novella.

Contemporary

Maritess

Current Project Maritess is a contemporary romantic suspense novel based on a first- generation Filipino-American with a lot on her hands dealing with cultural and generation-gap issues, as well as her own dating problems. She has no time and no desire to deal with a couple of zombie-like college students running amock on a college campus. But when life throws you for a loop and, a dead body, you learn to reorganize your priorities.

Fantasy

Life's Quest

Life's Quest is a fantasy suspense novel. A sister searches for her kidnapped brother. In a medieval-type world, Jaera becomes a warrior against all the precepts of her male-dominated society to search for her kidnapped younger brother. Jaera blames herself for him being taken. On a quest to rescue him from the raiders who kidnapped him, she leaves home to find him, promising her father that she will return home regardless of the outcome of her quest. She has six months left before she has to return home. The son of a Duke and a Sorceress, Ralen is in a constant struggle denying his magical heritage. A disasterous spell casted in his younger days precipitated his vow - never to use magic again.

Drawn to Jaera's strength and character, Ralen joins her quest to find her brother. They must come to terms with their past in order to live a future together.

Death of a Guardian

Death of a Guardian is a medieval-fantasy suspense novel. In a fuedal-type society, obeying societal norms can be a matter of life and death. A member of a persecuted sect is driven out of hiding to stop a serial killer and her only ally is a suspicious mercenary captain.

Tirana, who escaped the destruction of her school, is a student-mage with the ability to see past events. Kieran, captain of a mercenary company, never turns down a lucrative commission - including strange ones like finding and stopping a killer of women. He will take any mission with the right amount of coin.

Together, Tirana and Kieran must learn to trust each other to stop the killer - and before Tirana's magic power is revealed and Kieran's business reputation suffers.

Racing to stop death. Secrets to keep hidden. A bloody killer is brought to justice. And a new relationship grows.

Novella

Worthy

This 25,000 word story provides background information on Tirana who was introduced in Death of a Guardian. Meet a younger Tirana who searchs for her place in the world while trying to defeat a demon.

Short Stories

The Sacrifice

This fantasy short story is a prequel to Life's Quest. The Sacrifice tells the tale of how Jaera met her demon friend Ganthor.

Perspectives

Another fantasy short story, Joleen is an Amazon warrior devoted to the truth of her people's ways including the superiority of women to men. A chance meeting with a man from her past shakes the foundation of that devotion.