What are people, who've already read my book, are saying about it. What the Book is About When a radical right-wing militia group executes a police officer and ambushes Maya and her team of first responders on a Pacific Northwest city street, paramedic Maya Murphy’s world is turned on end. After this traumatic event, she seeks emotional safety in the quiet mountain town of South Lake Tahoe. But while mountain biking on a beautiful trail, Maya and her two dogs discover a dead mountain biker,...

A good thriller does not begin with noise. It begins with pressure. A boot slips on wet stone. A phone loses signal. A patient stops answering questions. A ranger finds a fence cut clean through. One small detail changes the air, and suddenly every choice matters. That is the kind of tension that stays with me. The kind built from real moments, where calm is not a mood. It is a skill. Years around emergency scenes, wild places, and conservation work teach a person to watch closely. Not in a...

Some books disappear the moment the plot resolves. Others leave weather in your bones. Long after the last clue clicks into place, a reader may still remember the slant of rain on a windshield, the black line of pines above a mountain road, or the particular silence around a lake at night. That is the kind of setting I love most. Not background. Not decoration. A place with pressure, mood, memory, and teeth. I write place the way some writers write character. The Pacific Northwest rain, the...