Novel Excerpt: DYING TO MAKE HISTORY, the first in my Casey O'Hara mystery series, currently seeking representation.

Short Stuff: short stories, essays, etc.

Recollections: my newspaper column featuring everyday folks who've lived amazing lives.

A Walk in the Woods: A Diary of Discovery, chronicling hikes through five of New England's most beautiful mountain areas.

Cancer Diaries: Sometimes life drops a treasure on your lap. Sometimes it dumps you on your head. These are my online diary entries from the fall of 2004 when I was diagnosed with uterine cancer through the operation and recovery, February 2005.

DYING TO MAKE HISTORY

Historical museum assistant curator Casey O’Hara has a passion for preserving history and a penchant for finding trouble. After her nineteen-year marriage collapses, Casey heads back to college, dismayed to find herself amidst classmates half her age with a professor who was the subject of her high school fantasies. Still, Casey’s convinced she can handle the drama in her life until she stumbles across a murdered corpse in the town cemetery—an unburied one.

Things heat up when Casey’s relationship with her professor becomes romantic and her aimless older brother becomes the prime suspect in an antiques dealer’s murder. She is determined to prove his innocence by finding the real killer. But when the historical society receives an eighteenth-century letter that rewrites the town’s history with a tale of scandal and murder, Casey connects the two murders, committed three centuries apart and realizes she’s in danger of becoming history herself.

Read an Excerpt of DYING TO MAKE HISTORY, for which I am currently seeking representation.