I spent last week in the snow!!!

Okay, so a lot of people might think that was no big deal, but for little old Californian me, watching big, fluffy flakes of snow fall has to be one of my best memories!

I was in Colorado for an immersion class on the craft of writing. I landed in Denver and from there we drove all the way up to about 9500 feet, to a tiny little place called Coal Creek Canyon. There I stayed in an adorable little lodge with writer Belinda McBride. We attended Margie Lawson’s writer’s academy together. I’d love to say I’m a brilliant writer now, but it’s more likely to be true if I just say I now know what snow looks like when it clusters up into big, complicated snowflakes.

I’ve seen snow fall a few times, but before last week, the flakes were really too small to see much of anything. They might as well have been the potato flakes they use in films to get a snowfall scene. And oh, it was so beautiful! Silent and gray, drifting down and forming soft mounds all over everything. Dusting the trees. Glistening everywhere. (Even my nose and eyelashes, as Maria sang in Sound of Music.) Oh my gosh. That had to be one of my favorite things for sure.

So now you know that inside the heart of this California girl there’s a snow queen, just waiting to happen.

It’s hard to imagine that there might be someone, somewhere who has never dug their toes into the hot sand of summer on the shore of the Pacific Ocean. Never played in the surf, or ridden the waves or sailed. I guess that’s just as strange as never seeing snow fall.

I think we need an exchange program for people who have never seen one or the other! I volunteer for more snow!!

As for work, YES! I have been working. 😀

Deep Deception, book two of the deep series, is the book formerly titled VIGIL! If you’ve already read Notturno and Vigil, you only need Deep Desire and/or this book, Deep Deception if you want a matching cover on all three. Book three, Deep Deliverance has never been published, so stay tuned for that in December!!! And look for a re-release of Crossing Borders in September. You’re going to love Sparky all over again.

If you’ve never read Vigil, Deep Deception, will be coming from Samhain Publishing, available for Pre-Order on April 12, for sale May 12: Here

He’ll give up everything for his immortal lover…except his humanity.

Deep, Book 2

Leave a note and slip away to Paris alone, Adin thought. It’ll prove to his vampire lover he doesn’t need 24/7 supervision, Adin thought. Instead, Adin lands in a surreal situation that isn’t going to endear him to Donte. At. All.

As he awaits an old foe, Ned Harwiche III, for a prearranged meeting, Adin is head butted, tossed into the back of a car…then gets the chance to acquire an artifact Harwiche had been bidding on.

Adin jumps at it, if only as payback for all the dirty tricks Harwiche has pulled over the years. To his horror, the “artifact” turns out to be an adolescent boy named Bran.

Sickened, Adin vows to help the boy out, but like Donte—like a lot of the world Adin never knew existed—Bran isn’t at all what he seems to be.

While Donte and Adin negotiate the meaning of the word “forever”, Bran is running out of time. Especially when tragedy and betrayal pit Adin’s long-cherished beliefs against Donte’s love.

Product Warnings:
Contains a gothed-up college professor armed with guyliner (which is a big problem when you’re up against a little monster) and an old vampire who doesn’t like his lover out of reach. Not that he can’t administer discipline from afar…

Also My Cowboy Promises, Available for Pre-Order now at Amazon: HERE

To become the man he’s meant to be, one cowboy will have to be the man he never wanted anyone to know he was…

Ryder Dent is a true-blue cowboy. A devoted son, husband and father, but one who is living a costly lie. When they were both young, Ryder and his closest female friend Andy thought they’d found the perfect solution to both their problems—she was single and pregnant, and he was secretly gay—so they got married and raised Jonas together.

When Ryder gets hurt at a party, his son’s new pediatrician comes to the rescue. The connection between Ryder and Dr. Declan Winters is sudden, powerful, and undeniable. Ryder loves Andy and the family they’ve created together—but they both need more. Can they pursue their hearts’ desire without destroying the life they’ve built and losing the son they love?

Stay tuned for more in the saga of one woman and precipitation, when I discover some other form of weather we don’t have here.