[close] Author of women's fiction. Debut novel, Lost Souls of the Witches' Castle, was released by a small press in 2002. Based on the mental facility north of Boston where I did my Psychiatric RN training, it weaves the story of a love both past and present. Since the press closed, Lost Souls is no longer in print.
Daughters of the Mill is a prequel to Lost Souls and focuses on the Mill girls in Lowell, Massachusetts and the lack of women's rights in that era.
On Feb. 26 of this year I signed a two-book contract with Kensington Publishing in NYC. My first novel, also women's fiction, will be released Autumn 2009.
My main character is Sydney Webster, 52 years old and the widow of a prominent physician. Two weeks following his funeral, she's evicted from her posh Lexington, Mass. home. Packing up a few belongings and her Boxer dog, she heads to an island off the west coast of Florida to her college friend, Alison, who owns the B&B on Cedar Key. Sydney relocates in an attempt to find herself, but ends up finding much more.
I'm originally from the Boston area, but have resided in Florida for 21 years. Three years ago we relocated to Cedar Key (the setting for my novel) off the west coast. [close]