THE LIGHTKEEPER’S DAUGHTER IS IN STORES!:
I started my writing career with historicals. That’s where I learned how to incorporate setting into a novel and where I learned to love research. So it was fun to go back to my roots with this new book. It still has my trademark mystery and romance woven together but is set in 1907 northern California. I hope you enjoy it! Let me know what you think.
Here are what people are saying about my books:
“The model for the cover could have been you about thirty years ago. Are you ever going to grow your hair long like that again?” Colleen’s husband David
I thought you were going to do something more Calvin and Hobbs like.” Colleen’s son Dave
“Great story, Mom, but in the next one could you have some vampires?” Colleen’s daughter Kara
“I loved it. But it would have been better with more kissing scenes.” Colleen’s daughter-in-law Donna
“Why don’t you ever have a senior citizen heroine? We’re not dead yet.” Colleen’s parents George and Peggy
 CRY IN THE NIGHT
And you think authors don’t listen to their readers! After so many of you asked me for another Rock Harbor novel, Bree whispered one more story in my ear. Cry in the Night has been on the Christian Booksellers Association Bestseller list six months so far! It’s my first book to break into the top 50 Christian books as well. Below is a little blurb about the book:
The highly anticipated novel that delivers what romantic suspense fans have long awaited-the return to Rock Harbor.
A mysterious crying in the night leads search-and-rescue worker Bree Matthews and her dog Samson to an abandoned baby in the woods outside of Rock Harbor, Michigan. Against objections from her husband, Bree takes the baby girl in. Quickly she begins a search for the mother-presumably the woman reported missing just days earlier.
While teams scour the wintery forests, Bree ferrets out clues about the woman. Where is she and why did she leave the child behind? And how does that connect to Bree’s first husband’s mysterious death yars ago in the Upper Peninsula? Everything Bree thought she knew about her life is turned upside down with the sound of a Cry in the Night.
GRAMMY UPDATE:
Our little angel is over a year and a half old! I can’t believe it. Being a grammy is just the BEST! She adores her Poppy too and she’s started complaining when we have to leave her. It’s enough to make us move in with her parents!  She can’t say Grammy so she calls me Mimi. Love it! This is our little Punky with her pop-pop in St. Croix.
AWARD NEWS:
The Lightkeeper’s Daughter is a finalist for the National Reader’s Choice Award. The winner will be announced in July. In this past year Lonestar Sanctuary won the Booksellers Best Award and it was also a finalist for the American Christian Fiction Writers Suspense Book of the Year. Anathema won the Best Books of Indiana Fiction Award and was also a finalist for the American Christian Fiction Writers Suspense Book of the Year!
 Lonestar Homecoming
I’m thrilled to announce that Lonestar Homecoming is out and seems to be a reader favorite. I hope you enjoy it!
Here’s more info:
For most, it’s the safest place on earth. For Gracie, it’s the last place she wants to be…and the one place she must return.
With nothing but five dollars and the wedding dress she’s wearing, Gracie Lister flees with her daughter by train to West Texas, to the town she ran away from so long ago. There they find refuge in the home of Michael Wayne–devoted single father, seasoned soldier–who gives Gracie a job caring for his two children and the hiding place she needs from her former fiance.
Michael and Gracie aren’t looking for love, but it finds them right away. And then trouble comes to call in the form of Gracie’s ex-fiance who is now on the FBI’s most-wanted list. Together, Michael and Gracie must find the strength they need to protect their newly forged family.
“Colleen weaves intrigue and God’s love into a story full of carefully crafted characters. If you’re looking for an awesome writer, I highly recommend her!” –Tracie Peterson, best-selling author of Dawn’s Prelude, Song of Alaska Series
“Colleen is a master storyteller.” –Karen Kingsbury, best-selling author of Shades of Blue
NEW PICS
I just got some new pics done. I especially like the one of me and Dave together.
 
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