Love a blend of romance, mystery, and suspense? Read LAND OF THE NOONDAY SUN, a bestseller in romantic-suspense.

If you love your novels filled with romance, mystery, suspense, and tragedy—after all, what would a great story be without a tragic event setting the stage—you’ll love LAND OF THE NOONDAY SUN. A sensual, but not erotic, gripping but not graphic story that will hopefully make you cry, laugh, love, and hope.

As a writer, I believe in setting up a story, making you fall in love and connect with the characters. I want you to know why they are who they are, so you can feel their pain and their triumphs.

Readers who enjoy Nicholas Sparks and Iris Johansen have commented that I touch on the same sensitive subjects and deep desires. In fact, my first novel, She Belongs to Me, hit bestseller status right alongside both of these great writers.

So to introduce you to my writing, the publisher is allowing me to discount my romantic-mystery, Land of the Noonday Sun, just a few days. If you enjoy, please make sure you tell your friends. After all, without readers, my writing is nothing but a journal, and we authors live to be “read”.

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Land of the Noonday Sun

On the bestseller list, but only .99 cents this weekend!

When two strangers have nothing left but their dreams, they must forge a relationship in Nantahala, North Carolina, a small town known as Land of the Noonday Sun.

She Belongs to Me

A bestseller in romantic-suspense and always 2.99!

After secrets and a mysterious background leave a wife’s life hanging by a thread, a husband must look for answers in the only place he knows—the past.

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And coming soon, Entangled Dreams

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"As in any fairytale, everything good must come to an end." ENTANGLED DREAMS:

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To prologue or not to prologue, that is the question. Readers, please weigh in!

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The rule of thirds: No matter what you do, someone will hate you. Get over it and Write On!

No matter what you do in life, a third of the people will love you, a third will hate you, and the rest will be indifferent. Get over it and Write On! Yes, I'm talking to myself. If you're listening, GREAT! It's good advice! Is it easy advice? Heck No! For some reason, even though that percentage is rather low on my books--the percentage of people who hate my books runs about 4.6%--it still hurts. Note: I only averaged the 'firsts' in my books, the books I actively promote. Because if I go to the second, third, and fourth books in my series, those numbers drop drastically. Obviously, if readers don't like my first book, they don't go on to the rest of my books in a series, so those books receive little to zero one-star reviews. So...if the number of one-star reviews we receive is less than five percent--Thank God ALL of the 33 1/3% of the haters don't write reviews--why do we get so depressed when we receive a one-star review

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