Medina is the first novel I ever wrote way back in 2006-07. It was intended as a surprise birthday gift for my good friend and co-worker Darlene. She was surprised to get a proof copy in January 2020 after waiting 13 years!

The novel is currently getting a cover designed by my multi-talented author friend Melissa Volker. I've given the novel a soft release in print and as an ebook. It's an epic read at 587 pages. The good news is that I cut it in half, finding a natural stopping point that far into it and setting the rest aside. It will most likely never be a sequel but I can't really let go of it just yet. These characters grew on me as my first characters in an actual novel. My second novel wasn't written until my daughter talked me into NaNo noveling in 2012. Since then I've written 22 more novels. So Medina, my first novel, takes its new position in 2020 on the list as my 23rd self-published novel.

Basically it's the story f a former wild child who is banished to Ireland after a wild ne night stand while visiting her great-aunt who is in a nursing home. She's seventeen years old. In Ireland the rebellious young Medina determines to show her worth. She knuckles down, attends college, earns her degree and writes a few books. Her problem is she gets herself into bad relationships.

After a near fatal accident she's brought back to the Berkshires to finish her recovery. It's been seven years. Her great-aunt is still in the nursing home, beginning t fail. Medina resumes visiting her. Soon she finds herself seeing Great Aunt Cathryn's lawyer who tells her Aunt Cathryn wants her to oversee the renovation and restoration of Greenhaven. the Graham family estate in Beaumont. Knowing her father will be displeased, she agrees. It doesn't matter to her because she loves her great-aunt and she has always loved Greenhaven.

Soon three men are locked in a bitter battle to win her heart. One wrong-side of the tracks brother works at the supermarket deli, is covered in tattoos and piercings, but he's a good-hearted soul trapped in a terrible situation being the overseer of his alcoholic mother. Sebastiano Murphy desperately needs a friend, someone who cares about him. Medina is just that girl. His brother, Giancarlo Murphy, whom she hires to handle the renovation and restoration work at the estate doesn't like her relationship with his kid brother, constantly argues with her, and keeps warning her to steer clear of her great-aunt's attorney. He also finds ways to thwart any budding romances that form between Medina and his workers. It's a rule of his company, no fraternizing with the clients! Seth Sheridan is that attorney she's been warned to stay away from. He's also smitten with the fiery redhead, and bound and determined that he will win her heart and therefore have control of the estate and the Graham fortune that she inherits upon the death of her great-aunt partway through the renovation and restoration of Greenhaven. Meanwhile, Medina gets involved with several other men after breaking up with her Irish fiance. She just can't find the right man and starts to believe that once the estate has been restored to its former Victorian glory she'll be living there all by herself.

As the house is being renovated and restored, Medina struggles to reconstruct her life, to find love and her happily ever after. Will she?