With Valentine’s Day in Torrid Teasers Vol. 2, my contemporary love story was inspired by a fellow writer’s challenge to pen a tale starring a red satin heart-shaped pillow. I ran with the idea and created the sensual, romantic reunion of Valentine and Rafe. Val’s crush on Rafe, her brother Ryan’s best friend, started when they were kids. Life sent them in different directions when Rafe married another woman but reunites the old friends at Ryan’s wedding.

When Val discovers that Rafe is divorced, she seizes a chance to fulfill her lifelong fantasy for one night with the one man she’s never been able to forget. From the minute Val walks down the aisle, Rafe is thoroughly turned on by the stunning beauty his childhood friend has become. Sparks fly, and their mutual fascination turns to lust. Val and Rafe spend the night in breathtaking, sensuous love making and find that a childhood crush is the first step to love. Valentine’s Day along with Ann Cory’s Snowbound in Torrid Teasers Vol. 2 received 4 stars from Romance Junkies, Fallen Angel Reviews, Just Erotic Romance Reviews, and May Reviews.

My debut novel, Ancient Ties reached #1 on the Whiskey Creek Torrid’s best seller list in January 2006, received 4 ½ Stars and Top Pick from Romantic Times Book Club Magazine in March 2006, as well as 5 stars from Just Erotic Romance Reviews, Romance Junkies, The Romance Studio, Fallen Angel Reviews, The Best Reviews, and Enchanted in Romance.

Ancient Ties goes almost 2,000 years back in history. Several trips to Bath in England and a life-long love of ancient civilizations inspired the adventures of the heroine, Janney. Drawing on my own teaching experience, I wrote the story of a small town school teacher who steps through the doorway of a ruined Roman villa in the English countryside and into the world of Marek, a Roman soldier stationed in Aquae Sulis, the ancient place name for Bath.

Imagine discovering that you’ve suddenly traveled to another century and are seeing that historical period through your own eyes. Imagine falling in love with a man wrestling with his painful past and then challenged to deal with the outlandish reality of a woman from the future, a woman struggling with her own heartbreak.

Only Marek’s need to redeem himself in battle and Janney’s fear of being abandoned in a strange time separate them. It will take their mortal love and the intercession of ancient Rome’s immortal Venus, the goddess of love, to bring them together again.

Sensual fantasies have always been floating around in my mind. Now I’m writing them. Joining Romance Writers of America and Passionate Ink introduced me to other romance writers and helped hone the craft of sensual romance that has become my passion and niche in life. I love the creative process and am constantly, madly writing and revising the “next great novel.” I live in Chicago with my loving, supportive husband.

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