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My Latest Books


Mountain Bachelor

Caleb has loved Millie since kindergarten, but his heart is broken when she marries someone else after high school. Years later, he is torn when Millie becomes an available widow while he’s involved with Jolene. What will his heart decide?

Cupid’s arrow hit Caleb’s heart at an early age, linking him to Millie, the girl he’s loved since kindergarten. But when Millie breaks up with him three weeks before high school graduation and marries someone else, Caleb’s heart is ripped to pieces.


Mountain Fever

Once burned by love, Second Lieutenant Dawn Winters vows she’ll never surrender her heart again. That is, until an unfortunate collision with Drew Sunrise forces her to reconnoiter and gather her forces. Not only must she battle the coronavirus pandemic—her latest mission—but she also has to combat Drew’s sexy appeal and charm.

Drew Sunrise, single and never married, is concerned with two things, raising his teenage niece while her mother fights in Afghanistan, and his passion for work. When Dawn bumps into his truck—literally, with her car—the attraction is instant, and he can’t help falling victim to his growing feelings for her. He doesn’t need the added struggles life decides to throw his way.

Can these two work past the worries in their lives and form a perfect union, or will they lose the peace that lasting love can bring?


Mountain Hookup

After a meeting mishap, Eve Windsong and Beau Jobs ignite just as COVID-19 forces them into quarantine and—unknown to Beau—his ex-wife and son arrive hoping to reconnect and rebuild their family.

Single and alone, Eve Windsong finds her long-lost father and his family at the Sugarland Lodge in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. When her father’s family needs help, Eve jumps in, hoping to finally belong somewhere.

Sunny Days, her new sister, believes love is the only family Eve needs. To get Sunny off her back, Eve agrees to try MountainMatch.com. When a handsome hunk announces he’s arrived to hook her up, she mistakes his job as the cable guy for an online date.

When she overcomes her faulty assumption, the global pandemic reaches the mountains. A quarantine is issued and the National Guard commandeers the Lodge. Eve and Beau are forced to live together for who knows how long. Just as they begin to adjust to their Covid-habitation along with Beau’s ex-wife and his tattooed teenage son, Eve learns his ex wants to rebuild their fractured family.

Can Eve and Beau’s connection last beyond the pandemic, or will it remain a temporary hookup?


Mountain Bred

From the moment Marsha Drinkhorn met John Weathers in 1968, it was not love at first sight. In fact, it was more of a fight or flight experience…but that quickly changed.

Marsha Drinkhorn met John Weathers on the Gatlinburg Trolley during the turbulent 1960s. Amid music, peace, and love, they marry at Woodstock, but their love is tested by tensions of the times.

Fifty years later, Marsha wonders what she and her ex-husband are doing trying to contain their combustion now. They must be losing their minds. Maybe their acid-dropping days and pot-filled nights really did blow their minds, because it sure looks like they are hooking up—again!

John and Marsha may be separated, yet here they are fanning the flames of passion once more. If they couldn’t make their marriage work before, how can they make it work now? Should they let the fire between them burn or put it out once and for all?


Mountain Led

Newlyweds, John and Marsha Weathers, endure a long separation while trying to keep their Woodstock wedding vows and love intact.

Born and bred in The Smoky Mountains, newlyweds, John and Marsha Weathers, are separated by the war in Vietnam. He struggles through army life while she set out to reconnect with her roots and discover her purpose. Both suffer their separation but vow to keep their love alive.

Marsha decides to join the Peace Corps to get as far away as possible from any potential bad news about John’s safety. Can she outrun the ill winds of war?

Will the unpredictable winds of change blow them together or blow their love away forever?


Mountain Wed

Marsha and John Weathers married at Woodstock, separated by Vietnam war and geography, try to make their marriage work for the third time─if they dare.

John and Marsha Weathers’ marriage survives the war-literally. Unfortunately, the battle scars mar their relationship and it becomes a casualty. The births of their grandchildren provide another chance at love. Is their third connection the charm or is it three strikes and you’re out?


Mountain Silver

Don’t Need Your Love Any More is Dr. Holly, Cyd, James’s mantra. Divorced decades ago, she’s carved out a successful life as a homeopathic doctor, specializing in alternative medicine. Her schedule is jammed packed with her career, yoga, kayaking, stand up paddle boarding, and riding her kinetic green Harley Davidson. She doesn’t have the time, need, or want for a man. Unlike her peers, at the end of the day, she doesn’t want a healthy Kombucha. Instead, she chugs down a cold Heineken. As a mother and grandmother, she’s been there done that, but when a knock on the door brings her a silver fox, long-dead desire rushes in. While her mind screams no her body says hell yes.

Rod Garden is a widowed seventy-something botanist who’s far from finished. Unfortunately, his rod stirs when he sees Dr. James. Reminding himself he has children, and grandchildren, he struggles for control when he comes to her door to trim her holly bush. He has a smorgasbord full of delight to deliver. However, the woman who answers suggests she’s on strict a no-man diet. One without a dessert.

Can he offer an occasional appetizer or a quick snack? After all, he can cook and is a red-hot entrée. Maybe he could be just what the doctor ordered, and she’ll add him to her menu.


Mountain Mistletoe

A magical Christmas wedding set in the Great Smoky Mountains is a mere week away for the polar opposite but identical twins, Storme and Sunny Weathers.

Mistletoe kisses, promises, and every wile Sunny Weathers has, finally inspire Jesse Days to put a ring on her finger. Now that he’s committed, he promises nothing will delay this long awaited wedding day, not even Snowmegeddon. So when a winter storm creates holiday havoc in their small town, will the winter weather blow their chance at happiness or create a Christmas miracle?

Meanwhile, Storme literally hooks her hubby-to-be Craig Knight and he’s chomping at the bit to wed his commitment-phobe fiancée. But when a series of mishaps- even her doves flew the coop- befall their Twelve Days of Christmas wedding theme, Storme begins to fear their wedding is doomed. Craig’s hot kisses keep the flames burning, but are they enough to warm her cold feet and hold her heart for good?


Mountain Promises

Sunny Weathers wants Jesse Days to commit, but love potion -laced moonshine and mistletoe kisses haven’t brought him down on one knee, forcing her to consider more drastic measures…like setting him free and moving on.

Sunny wants Jesse to set a date for their wedding but so far, it’s a no go. Love potion-laced sweet tea, moonshine in his potato salad, and even mistletoe kisses don’t get him on bended knee. Clearly, in no hurry to wed, he’s easily led─to bed─ but not to the altar. Getting him to commit is like nailing Jello to a wall. What’s a girl to do? Does she have to sing her own version of Will you Marry Me, Bill? She definitely is suffering from wedding bell blues. Not known for her patience, Sunny is desperate to get that ring and heaven only knows what she’ll do next.

Unfortunately, her many misadventures like falling off a ladder into another man’s arms, and an innocent afternoon tubing which results in a white- water rescue by still another man, doesn’t exactly encourage Jesse to put a ring on it. Apparently even dying her black curls blonde doesn’t cut it either.
What more does it take ─a chance sighting of the legendary Ghost Stag─ rumored to unite lovers for eternity? Currently, Sunny is out of options and may have to rely on herself─as is─ and that fact scares her silly. Can she become the catalyst Jesse needs or will she wait, cut bait, and bail?