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Welcome to my website! I'm so glad you wandered in for a visit. I love hearing from readers so email me anytime. I try to personally answer every message. Exciting things are happening so take some time and look around the site. If you love books of romance and mystery, you've come to the right place.

A Free Trip to Hawaii--well, in fiction anyway!

For a limited time, I'm giving you a trip to Kaua'i through the pages of my novel Distant Echoes. The link below will allow you to download the COMPLETE pdf file of the first book in the Aloha Reef series. You'll need a code for the download. If you haven't gotten a code from the back of Lonestar Secrets or from my newsletter, email me and I'll give you a code to use. Now grab a flower lei, a cup of Kona coffee, and your suntan lotion! Then enjoy a trip to the islands. Now where's my ukulele? Click here to download Distant Echoes

If you've read Cry in the Night and wished there was just a little more to the story, you're in luck! click the link below to sign up for the newsletter and receive a password to read one more chapter. Click here to signup for my newsletter and receive the epilogue from my new book Cry in the Night.

You can also read a Question and Answer interview about Cry in the Night.

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best-books1BEST BOOKS OF INDIANA-FICTION

I’ve been a Hoosier all my life and am proud of my home state. When I first started writing, my dream was to have a book in the library. That’s it. Just to see it there in the place where I have spent so much of my life. I just won a state award (Best Books of Indiana–Fiction) for the book Anathema and what an exciting weekend it was! They had me sign the book and place it into the Indiana Authors Room collection. My name and the title hangs on a plaque outside the room now too. My parents came along, and it was such an honor to win this award!


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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


cryinthenight2CRY 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.

saugatuck1GRAMMY UPDATE:

Our little angel is over a year 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! :-)

AWARD NEWS:

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 just 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_310f1a Lonestar Homecoming, A Crossings Exclusive!

I’m thrilled to announce that Lonestar Homecoming will be available exclusively from the BookSpan Book Clubs (Doubleday, Crossings, Literary Guild, Rhapsody) until March when it will release in bookstores. If you belong to one of the bookclubs (and if you don’t, now is a good time to join!) you’ll be able to order it.