Rubies is off and running with a good review from Kirkus and steady sales! I’m deep into production with my next book, which is to be released in the late summer, in time for the Decatur Book Festival. I’ll be appearing there in the “Sisters in Crime” booth signing both books with my awesome sisters (and brothers)

Saving Miss Lillian is a light summer read, a mystery and romance set in Atlanta and the Georgia coast. I would call it a “romantic suspense,” except that name now seems to mean something with whap-bam-boom action. Well, Miss Lillian has plenty of action, but not with Navy Seals or Special Ops.

Summary: In elegant old Atlanta neighborhood Buckhead, nurse Sunny Iles must keep her patient, an elderly grande dame, alive by preventing a greedy relative from killing her. A plot is afoot to gain control of the lady's unspoiled island off the coast of Georgia in order to build a resort for billionaires.

If you liked the Dowager Duchess, you’ll love Miss Lillian...

The artist did a great job with the cover, and I’ll do a “cover reveal” sometime this summer. Please look for a Goodreads giveaway in advance this summer!

And what's in progress? A few people have asked me if I’m going to write a sequel to Rubies. Well, I just might, and I have a few ideas. I love those folks. Later. Right I’m about to complete my BIG book.

It’s another historical novel set in middle Georgia, in a town much like Macon. The time period will be 1924-1928, and will feature a country girl and a city girl whose lives become linked by a charming con man in a way they could never imagine.

Stay tuned.