Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.

A. A native North Carolinian, I am a wife and the mother of college- and high school-aged daughters. I have a Master’s degree in education and history. And though I write mostly contemporary, history seems to weave itself into almost every one of my stories whether I meant it to or not. I taught middle and high school, and at the university level, before becoming a

Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A. Since college days I’d always wanted to write a novel, but that ambition (if you can call it that) was always pushed aside by professional requirements and family needs. After I retired from teaching, though, I joined a local writers’ group and began serious attempts to write fiction. The first result, after several years, was The Lazarus File (spies and airplanes in the

Q: How did you get your start writing fiction and what genre do you predominantly write in?
A. I got my start writing articles for religious and children’s publications back in the mid 1990s, then decided to try my hand at writing a novel. After several stops and starts, along with returning to school to get my degree, I finally decided in 2010 that I was going to stick with it until I got published. I got the call from Harlequin