My Books

I’ve written fifteen novels. Most are book club fiction — what I like to call high-impact — sweeping, hopeful, set in wine country and points beyond. A few are thrillers, written under the pen name Benjamin Blackmore. Find a thread that calls to you and pull.

A book club fiction saga set in the eccentric wine community of eastern Washington — three novels plus two prequels that frame the love stories at its heart. Damaged characters, found family, vineyards, secrets, second chances. A Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection. An Amazon Charts Bestseller. Over 50,000 reader reviews across the series.

A Marriage Well Done — Margot’s prequel. Margot abandoned Broadway for marriage. Now her husband is chasing a Senate seat — and she’s about to lose herself trying to save them both. Quirky, funny, devastating.

Before We Say Goodbye — Otis & Rebecca’s prequel. How Otis became Otis. The love story at the heart of Red Mountain — from Woodstock in 1969 to the vineyards of Sonoma to the desert of eastern Washington. Epic, devastating, true.

Red Mountain — Book 1. Four lives intertwined like vines on the mountain: Otis the visionary winemaker, Margot the heartbroken innkeeper, Emilia the celebrity heiress, Brooks the orphan. And secrets that won’t stay buried.

Red Mountain Rising — Book 2. The mountain is threatened. Margot is online dating. Brooks is heartbroken. And a woman named Adriana arrives with a young son and a name she won’t give.

Red Mountain Burning — Book 3. The season when everything Otis built, Margot fought for, and Brooks survived all come due. Some fires temper. Others consume.

The Red Mountain Chronicles Box Set — Books 1–3 + A Marriage Well Done, in one collection. The cleanest entry point — and a great deal. (Note: Before We Say Goodbye is sold separately.)

The English Bookstore in Bologna — Coming August 2026. Bologna, Italy. Five expats — a prickly bookstore owner, her hopelessly optimistic employee, a psychotherapist running from her own self-help book, her father wrestling with retirement, and an awkward Denver barista recovering from his first heartbreak — find each other inside the city’s only English-language bookstore. Charming, funny, poignant.

An Unfinished Story — A widow finds her late husband’s unfinished novel — and asks a famous, hiding-from-the-world author to finish it. Neither of them was expecting what the manuscript would reveal.

The Singing Trees — Maine, 1969. A young Italian-American artist named Annalisa Mancuso fights her way out of a stifling factory town toward the New England art scene she’s been quietly dreaming of — until an Ivy League boy and the lie no one warned her about put everything at risk.

The Stars Don’t Lie — Vermont, twenty years after he swore he’d never go back. Veterinarian Carver Livingston returns to save his parents’ marriage — and runs straight into the high school soulmate he never got over and the English teacher who once saved his life.

A Spanish Sunrise — A widowed musician and his grieving eight-year-old daughter follow a surprise DNA result to a centuries-old olive oil estate in southern Spain — and find the family, the love, and the second chance neither of them knew they were looking for.

An Echo in Time — Charli Thurman has spent thirty years convinced her family is cursed. To break the cycle, she follows the threads of a centuries-old murder to Winchester, England — where an English pub owner with his own family history might know more than he’s letting on.

The Secrets of Good People — Co-written with Peggy Shainberg. Florida, 1970. A welcome party for newlyweds on a tiny island off Paradiso ends with the groom dead on the beach by morning. Detective Quentin Jones knows the killer is on his guest list — and one of the suspects is the blind sculptor he never stopped loving. A twisty whodunit.

Where I started. Two Charleston-set crime stories and a Pacific Northwest standalone.

Lowcountry Punch — DEA Agent T.A. “The Pretender” Reddick leaves Miami for Charleston and lands undercover in the cocaine trade rotting through high society.

Off You Go (a novella) — Dewey Moses — vegetable farmer, bluegrass musician, recovering alcoholic — takes the case nobody wants: why did a happy young woman jump from the Cooper River Bridge?

Once a Soldier — Ex-Special Forces, Pacific Northwest, AI singularity, a religious sect that thinks a scientist is playing God. Things move fast.

Not sure where to start? An Unfinished Story is my favorite. Or grab the Red Mountain Box Set if you’re the binge type. You can see all the covers here.

Want two books for free? Subscribe to my Substack, and I’ll send you A Marriage Well Done (the prequel novella) plus Red Mountain Recipes for the Body, Mind, and Spirit — the cookbook companion I made to go with the series.