After being a nurse for over thirty years, I finally retired and found my true passion: writing. I’ve always enjoyed dark fantasy, the supernatural world, magick, horror, vampires, and the climactic drama within the final vengeance.

For me, there’s a profound sense of satisfaction in seeing justice prevail against the darkness. The more intensely that justice is carried out, and preferably in the most gruesome way, the better. Thus, many of the bad guys in my stories have grizzly deaths.

I’m absolutely fascinated with diverse cultures, religion, and symbolism. You may just find some of these within my novel, Soul Collector.

One of my favorite things is sitting at my laptop, watching my characters come to life and their story develop. They become personal, and their story rarely goes where I had thought it would.

The mountains are my preferred place to be. I love fall with its crisp, chilly air and the beauty of the leaves changing color as they prepare for winter, my favorite time of year. I’m comforted by watching the falling snow as it gently settles and blankets everything. Sunlight shimmering on fields of freshly fallen snow is dazzling, especially if I'm looking out through a cabin window, wrapped in a warm sweater and sipping a cup of hot chocolate.

In real life, I live in North Central Florida -- yep, hot, sweltering Florida -- with my husband and two rescued kittens, Neko and Pepper.