A few days ago, I got an email via my website, from a woman who had recently moved to Taos and picked up my book on a whim. She wrote: “I felt such a kinship with your characters and their journey. Yes, the erotic explorations Eve experiences are compelling, but Eve’s personal arc in the… Read More »

PROLOGUE Willow Thorpe knew friction. The heat it created when one thing rubbed against another. When one world rubbed against another. Willow felt it every time she got into the back seat of her mother’s car, buckled her seat belt, grabbed her brother’s hand and prepared to return to her father’s house. Every time she… Read More »

The bell rang out and on cue they started to approach all at once, like a stampeding herd. Standing back to let the first wave pass while shivering in late-March wind and cold, I pulled my gloved hands out of my pockets and tugged my woolly hat a bit more firmly down over my ears,… Read More »

Chocolate Hobnobs THE FIRST TIME I saw you, you were standing at the far end of the playing field near the bit of fence that’s trampled down, where the kids who come to school along the wooded path cut across. You were looking down at your little brown straggly dog that had its face stuck… Read More »