Welcome ~ I'm glad you're here! I knew I was in for a career change several years ago when I worked as a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit of a large metropolitan hospital, and admitted a young man with a golf club embedded in his skull. Not to be confused with the patient who'd been shot through the eye with an arrow, or the one who'd been crushed in an industrial-sized trash compactor, we stabilized Golf-Club Man enough to turn him over to the neurosurgeons in the Operating Room. I loved my job. It was full of challenges, frequent adrenaline rushes and great camaraderie, and I never thought of doing anything else until I went back to school to study history. It was a great escape, learning about the past, and when I studied the Medieval period, it seemed just as strange as some of the things I saw every day in the ICU. While my three kids were small (check out the picture above and you can see that they've grown up now) I worked in the hospital's outpatient clinic, and did some moonlighting in critical care during the evening shift. It was tough to go to sleep after those stressful nights at work, so I started to spend an hour or so writing before going to bed. Writing about the historical characters I'd encountered was a good way to unwind from a crazy day - or night - in the unit. I soon started making up characters and putting them into historical settings, which is how The Bride of Windermere, my first book, was created. Harlequin bought that book and wanted more, but I didn't give up my day job. At least, not until one day at work when I took care of a man who'd attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the abdomen. He was despondent for having attacked his brother with a golf club . . .

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