is a 145,000 word single-title paranormal romance, the first in a trilogy. Amelia Kent is a brilliant woman, complete practicality on the outside, but a fairy-tale heroine on the inside. That might have remained her secret except for the arrival in her city of a handsome man with violet eyes who is as free in the air as Amelia is stuck in her life as a young woman unappreciated for her mind. Simon Rigalt, born with the ability to fly, finds himself in a very different world than that of his birth, adored by the woman who becomes his best friend, a woman who seems unable to believe that he could ever have had the dark past he knows is real. A hero in Amelia's eyes, Simon becomes one for real to the city police department. But he knows he should never be Amelia's knight in shining armor-because he doesn't deserve it and because Amelia should never get close enough to his dangerous work to need rescuing. But when Simon's life is the one threatened, Amelia realizes she has to rescue them both by finding her own amazing abilities, answering her own heroic calling, and joining her hero in making their own fairy tales come true.

Meet Amelia and Simon (read an excerpt)

What's next for Amelia?

Book 2: Flight to Freedom.

Laura Wayne is a favorite character of mine, one I have always wanted to write. A rape survivor, she is endowed with super-human strength during the attack. Quite possibly the most realistic metaphor ever. She is twelve years old. Laura is precious to me because I am a survivor of sexual assault myself, and having her be the heroine in a romance is a strike for all of us! Her love interest is telekinetic bank robber Brian Grayson who meets his match in Laura. You'd think the bank robber would be the bad guy in the story...but guess what? Laura gets to learn a lot from him, as those of us who woke up stronger know. That strength can feel kind of violent inside. We also get to spend a lot of time in this book with Amelia and Simon's son, Paul, who is Laura's best friend, and thus has a few "ghostly" secrets himself.

Meet Laura and Brian (read an excerpt)

Book 3: Forsaken Flight.

Paul finally gets his own story here. In high school, he fell in love with Karissa Parker, a woman who shared his passion for music and dancing. But one night, Paul is filling in for his father as the superhero Simon and is unable to save Karissa from a shattering injury. She walks again, but she will never dance. Boy loses girl out of guilt, a feeling that Karissa, unaware of the Kent family secrets, doesn't understand. But she comes back into Paul's life at the beginning of this book, and we find she's been doing a bit of furtive and ahem, foolish heroic activity herself, though she has no paranormal powers. We wait breathlessly for Karissa to finally discover Paul's secret, followed by her giving him a good lecture about how he cannot possibly be thinking about giving up the superhero lifestyle! We all have issues, Paul. This story also gets to finally answer the question of who is going to take over for Simon as he gets too old for this ghost business. It's not who you think! And as a bonus, Karissa has written me a couple of songs, which I hope to record with my friend and post on my site when her book gets published.

Meet Karissa and Paul (read an excerpt)

is a 130,000 word paranormal romance. Five-year-old Chiara Gravina falls from her family's boat into the sea during a sudden storm after they run around on an island that is not supposed to be there. Under the water, drowning, Chiara is startled to find that she is not alone. A little boy reaches her, kisses her, and just for a stolen second, lets her breathe in the sea. Twenty-five years later, Chiara has come back to her summer home, Salina Island, Sicily, in danger of her life. She and her best friend Carly, who has come to Salina to get married, are being threatened by unknown assailants who have followed them from Los Angeles. Saddened, because she wants to be the one getting married, worried because Carly seems to have more interest in the handsome detective on their case than her own, slightly scary fiance, and frightened because of threats against her, Chiara is not at all prepared to once again meet her mysterious little boy...all grown up and holding secrets she cannot imagine. Ben Xenos, in love with Chiara since he saved her life those years ago, is risking his life, his family, the fate of his entire secret island to once again rescue the woman he loves...though he knows that once he has, he must leave her.

Meet Chiara and Ben (read an excerpt)