THE SECRET DOOR
2025
2024. When Army Specialist Brant Morgan returns home to Castile, New York, to lay his mother to rest after her unexpected death, he inherits a mysterious key to an unknown lock. A key that sends him on a search for answers to questions about his mother’s past he didn’t even know existed. He is not alone in his search, however. His childhood friend, Taylor Ross, encourages him to stay the course and discover the long-held secrets his mother hinted about in her last letter to him. But Taylor has a secret, too, one she hasn’t even told her father, the pastor of a small local church. As Taylor and Brant’s relationship deepens, will fear and shame prevent her from standing beside the man she has loved since high school? When the past and present collide, he needs her more than ever as the answers he uncovers threaten to shatter his future.
1777. When Louise Ahrenson finds herself unexpectedly sent back in time to the beautiful Vale of Three Falls in the heart of the Seneca Nation—a place she has always known as Letchworth Park in her own time—she is at a loss to understand the circumstances that brought her there. However, she is immediately and irresistibly drawn to Michel Allende, a French trapper who reluctantly shelters her, a man whose tragic life strangely mirrors an old Seneca legend she learned about as a child. As a new chapter of her life unfolds, she prays that Michel’s love, and the friendship of the native Seneca people who adopt her as their own, can silence the siren call of her past that beckons her back to the future.
A dual timeline story about mothers and sons, and the special bond of love between them.
THE SECRET DOOR
2025
2024. When Army Specialist Brant Morgan returns home to Castile, New York, to lay his mother to rest after her unexpected death, he inherits a mysterious key to an unknown lock. A key that sends him on a search for answers to questions about his mother’s past he didn’t even know existed. He is not alone in his search, however. His childhood friend, Taylor Ross, encourages him to stay the course and discover the long-held secrets his mother hinted about in her last letter to him. But Taylor has a secret, too, one she hasn’t even told her father, the pastor of a small local church. As Taylor and Brant’s relationship deepens, will fear and shame prevent her from standing beside the man she has loved since high school? When the past and present collide, he needs her more than ever as the answers he uncovers threaten to shatter his future.
1777. When Louise Ahrenson finds herself unexpectedly sent back in time to the beautiful Vale of Three Falls in the heart of the Seneca Nation—a place she has always known as Letchworth Park in her own time—she is at a loss to understand the circumstances that brought her there. However, she is immediately and irresistibly drawn to Michel Allende, a French trapper who reluctantly shelters her, a man whose tragic life strangely mirrors an old Seneca legend she learned about as a child. As a new chapter of her life unfolds, she prays that Michel’s love, and the friendship of the native Seneca people who adopt her as their own, can silence the siren call of her past that beckons her back to the future.
A dual timeline story about mothers and sons, and the special bond of love between them.
THE LOST GIRL
Forthcoming… 2026
2025. All Navy widow Willa Hunter wanted to do when she moved back home to Tucson, Arizona, is pick up the pieces of her shattered life and start over. Her bestselling author grandmother has other ideas. Even from the grave, she compels Willa do seek out her old research assistant, Joshua Ramsey, and ask him about The Lost Girl, the key to a secret about her family’s past. There’s only one problem. Joshua tells Willa it is a manuscript her grandmother never showed him and he has no idea what she did with it—or if she wrote it at all. Even as Joshua tries to protect her from the secret Willa seeks, she begins to unravel a mystery as elusive as her grandmother herself. And maybe discover love along the way.
1878. Ilsa Maier has every reason to be happy. As an orphaned foundling, she has served the wealthy Stauer family of Baden-Baden, Germany as a companion for their eldest daughter, Minnie, since they were both children. Now Minnie is engaged to be married, and Ilsa herself has met a quiet and handsome young watchmaker named Conrad Ulrich, a disabled veteran of war with whom she begins to fall in love. But when Ilsa overhears a secret about her past, it throws everything she knew about herself—which isn’t much—into question. With her life and future uncertain, Ilsa discovers that the Stauers hold the answer to the one question she has always had about her past: Who am I?
A dual timeline story about families and secrets, and the special bond of love women share with each other.
Forthcoming… 2026
2025. All Navy widow Willa Hunter wanted to do when she moved back home to Tucson, Arizona, is pick up the pieces of her shattered life and start over. Her bestselling author grandmother has other ideas. Even from the grave, she compels Willa do seek out her old research assistant, Joshua Ramsey, and ask him about The Lost Girl, the key to a secret about her family’s past. There’s only one problem. Joshua tells Willa it is a manuscript her grandmother never showed him and he has no idea what she did with it—or if she wrote it at all. Even as Joshua tries to protect her from the secret Willa seeks, she begins to unravel a mystery as elusive as her grandmother herself. And maybe discover love along the way.
1878. Ilsa Maier has every reason to be happy. As an orphaned foundling, she has served the wealthy Stauer family of Baden-Baden, Germany as a companion for their eldest daughter, Minnie, since they were both children. Now Minnie is engaged to be married, and Ilsa herself has met a quiet and handsome young watchmaker named Conrad Ulrich, a disabled veteran of war with whom she begins to fall in love. But when Ilsa overhears a secret about her past, it throws everything she knew about herself—which isn’t much—into question. With her life and future uncertain, Ilsa discovers that the Stauers hold the answer to the one question she has always had about her past: Who am I?
A dual timeline story about families and secrets, and the special bond of love women share with each other.