THE BOOKS
Two kinds of books, both for you
Mysteries to escape into when you need out of your own life, and guides for the real work of reinventing it. They sit on different shelves, but both are about an ordinary woman who turns out to be far more than anyone expected, one for you to disappear into, and one to help you become her.
NONFICTION, PLANNING FOR REAL LIFE, AVAILABLE NOW
The PLAN to WIN: Reinvent Your Life, One Goal at a Time
Your reinvention is closer than it feels.
A step by step system for reinventing your life, one goal at a time. You do not need another productivity book, you need a way to become the woman you can already feel yourself turning into, without burning down the life you have built. The PLAN to WIN is for the accomplished woman who knows she is ready for something different and cannot quite see where to start. It walks you through getting honest about what you actually want at this point in your life, choosing the one goal that moves you toward it, and following a clear and forgiving system built for real days, real interruptions, and the way your attention and energy truly work.
AVAILABLE NOW
FICTION, A SEMI-COZY SPY MYSTERY, COMING SEPTEMBER 2026
The Saudi Assignment
A first-time spy who used to be a teacher, the kind of woman no one notices, which is exactly how she ends up in the rooms where the secrets are.
Sarah Hansen spent ten years in the classroom before trading her lesson plans for the most unlikely second act imaginable, a posting to Saudi Arabia as a brand new CIA officer on her very first assignment. Her cover is the job she knows best, teaching at an American school in the Eastern Province, and her real mission is to find whoever is selling American secrets to China. Her only true advantage is that she is the kind of woman no one bothers to watch, which lets her slip into rooms and conversations a more obvious operative never could. Then a death that someone wants forgotten ties itself to the very trail she is following, and the deeper she goes, the more she learns that being underestimated is the sharpest tool she owns. The Saudi Assignment is a mystery about paying attention, about being wildly out of your depth, and about a woman discovering she is far more than the life she left behind.
COMING SEPTEMBER 2026
NONFICTION, FOR WOMEN IN MIDLIFE TRANSITION, COMING 2027
The Write Age
Writing as the work of becoming yourself again.
Somewhere in midlife, the story you have been telling about your life stops matching the one you are actually living, and you are left holding a question you cannot quite answer: who am I now? The Write Age is about using writing, your own words on your own page, to work that out. It is not about getting published or calling yourself a writer. It is about the way putting your life into language helps you see it clearly, claim it, and choose what comes next. For the woman in the middle of the change, this is a companion for the work of becoming who you are now, on your own terms.
You are not declining, you are being rewritten, and this time you hold the pen.
COMING 2027
FICTION, THE FIRST IN A NEW COZY SERIES, COMING SOON
Crown City Mysteries, Book One
Holly Murphy sees what everyone else misses, which in a town as polished as Pasadena turns out to be a dangerous gift.
Holly Murphy teaches history at Pasadena City College, comes from old Crown City money, and has never quite felt like she belongs to either world. Her mind works differently from everyone around her, catching the small wrong details that other people walk right past, and the very thing that has always made her feel like an outsider turns out to be the thing that lets her see what really happened. With her Bernese mountain dog Saga at her side, Holly grows into the role of amateur sleuth in a town where the gardens are perfect and the secrets are buried deep. The Crown City Mysteries are warm, clever cozy whodunits about a woman discovering that what made her feel like she never fit is exactly the gift her town needed all along.
COMING SOON