Welcome aboard!

I’d like to thank you for taking the time to visit my website. If you’re here, I imagine it is because you, too, are a devotee of sailing, adventure, travel and the world of books. My latest news is that my most recent novel WHISKEY CREEK will be published January 27, 2026. This book is a departure for me because it is a historical novel that takes place during World War II. It follows a young woman starting when she is 20-years old in Fort Lauderdale, and it follows her throughout the war years. I had a grand time doing the research and discovering that there really were Nazi spies in Florida and U-boats just offshore. The book has lots of sailing, spies, adventure and romance. I am planning three books in this series that will be titled the Florida Chronicles.

My second series is called the Shipwreck Adventure series and it includes three books that started me on my fascination with the Second World War and submarines.  That series includes CIRCLE OF BONES, DRAGON’S TRIANGLE, and KNIGHT’S CROSS and introduces a pair of characters: Riley, a female former Marine, who single-hands her forty-foot sailboat, and Cole Thatcher, a maritime archeologist searching for the wreck of a World War II French submarine, the SURCOUF, that went missing in 1942. In KNIGHT’S CROSS, the duo find themselves entangled with the Order of the Knights of Malta while searching for an ancient manuscript.

I’ve been very fortunate in my life, and I’ve been able to follow my inklings and sail aboard many boats to islands and continents across half the world. I enjoy creating imaginary worlds out of my experiences such as the adventures of Seychelle Sullivan, the tug and salvage captain who lives in Fort Lauderdale with her dog, Abaco and the adventures of Maggie Riley, the female single handed sailor. In addition to writing more books, my husband and I designed and built a new boat and sailed it across the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean. We sold that boat and bought a used ambulance which we converted into an RV, and we are now camping in the wilds of Baja in Mexico with our two Havapoo pups, Razz and Zoe. If you’d like to follow our adventures, sign up for my Sailingwriter newsletter on this page.

Fair winds!