“Missing Mom beautifully illustrates the power of relationships and the connections we forge. Just as Noelle learns to lean on her friends and family, this book reminds us that the people we meet and the bonds we create enrich every adventure.”

—Midwest Book Review

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About Missing Mom

Devastated by her mom’s sudden disappearance and the evidence pointing to suicide, seventeen-year-old Noelle, an aspiring ballet dancer, doesn’t believe her mom would ever have taken her own life. She undertakes her own investigation to find out what really happened to her mother.

About the Author

I’m addicted to reading and writing novels—not to mention chocolate, romance, and my husband’s cooking. Spoiler Alert about my bio: It’s not about how I always knew I wanted to be a writer. Instead…

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Praise for Missing Mom

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Essay

For as far back as I can remember, music made me want to move, and there was always music playing at my house. I was ten when I finally convinced my father to let me take ballet lessons. My passion for dance grew over the years, but my father was so opposed to my pursuing dance as a career that I was not allowed to take dance classes during my senior year in high school or apply to a college with a dance major...

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Latest Project

DEATH IN THE END ZONE is a sequel to MISSED CUE. Homicide detective Caitlin O’Connor is faced with another puzzling case: the murder of two star football players whose bodies are discovered in a compromising position in the end zone of their high school’s football field. While Caitlin identifies several suspects who might have had reasons to want to harm the boys, no clearcut evidence points to the culprit.

Meantime, Caitlin deals with her partner’s alcoholism at work, continuing fears of commitment in a new relationship at home, and her conflicted feelings about her widowed mother’s new relationship—all while worrying that she may get pulled off the case if she doesn’t figure out who killed the boys left in the end zone.

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