For those of you who might be having a hard time this Christmas, here’s one of my favorite songs. It was actually the theme song to my book, Treacherous Intent , because of the trauma the hero was going through after he came back from Afghanistan. "Cry Out To Jesus" by Third Day To everyone who's lost someone they love Long before it was their time You feel like the days you had were not enough when you said goodbye And to all of the people with burdens and pains Keeping you back from your life You believe that there's nothing and there is no one Who can make it right There is hope for the helpless Rest for the weary Love for the broken heart There is grace and forgiveness Mercy and healing He'll meet you wherever you are Cry out to Jesus, Cry out to Jesus For the marriage that's struggling just to hang on They lost all of their faith in love They've done all they can to make it right again Still it's not enough For the on...

My newest Love Inspired Suspense, Treacherous Intent , is the latest book in my Sonoma series (although each book can be read on its own). This story stars Liam O'Neill, whom readers met in my books Narrow Escape and Unshakeable Pursuit . DANGER AT HER DOORSTEP Private investigator Elisabeth Aday thinks her California women's shelter is a safe haven—until skip tracer Liam O'Neill shows up. While searching for a missing woman, Liam unwittingly puts Elisabeth in the crosshairs of the deadly drug gang that is trailing his target. To stay alive, they must find the woman before the gang finds them. And when a second rival gang joins the search, the threats multiply. Deep in the lair of notorious drug dealers, Elisabeth can't tell which is more dangerous—the criminals after her…or her growing feelings for the man at her side. Buy Treacherous Intent on Kindle , iBooks , Kobo , Nook . The Sonoma series books are: #1: Deadly Intent #2: Formula for Danger #3: Stalker...

If you haven’t read it yet, here’s an extended excerpt of the first 2 chapters of TREACHEROUS INTENT , releasing in December. It’s also posted on my website. I hope you enjoy! CHAPTER ONE Liam O’Neill frowned as he caught sight of the gray Mercedes sedan in his rearview mirror. Hadn’t he seen that car behind him several miles back, when he was driving through downtown Sonoma? He scrubbed his face with one hand as he guided his beat-up pickup truck down the country road. He was exhausted—the nightmares had been especially bad last night. His tiredness was probably making him paranoid. As a skip tracer, tracking down people who didn’t want to be found or helping people disappear, he had his share of enemies, but he’d been monitoring the cars behind him and hadn’t noticed any obvious tail. Moments later, the Mercedes turned off onto a side road. Clearly he needed more sleep. He was starting to imagine things. It had been almost eighteen months since a medical discharge had sen...

I just turned in book #6 in my Sonoma series, GONE MISSING, which will be out in May 2015, but I also just got the cover art for book #5, TREACHEROUS INTENT! Isn’t it neat? In the book, the hero and heroine, Liam and Elisabeth, head to a town called Penny Bay, which I based off of Mendocino, California, one of my favorite towns to visit. Mendocino has a beautiful lighthouse on the edge of the cliff. So of course, I write about it in my book with lots of bad guys with guns. :) (Also in TREACHEROUS INTENT, readers will meet Joslyn, who has her own story in GONE MISSING next year. :) TREACHEROUS INTENT releases this December!