1–What is the title of your latest release? HE SHOULD HAVE TOLD THE BEES 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Beekeeper, Beckett Walsh, was living her dream, working alongside her father on their small farm until his unexpected death thrusts a new part-owner into her world who threatens not only her livelihood, but her beliefs about the goodness of the man she’d always perceived to be her kind and faithful father. When Callie Peterson finds out that a mysterious benefactor named her in his trust, she envisions all her financial struggles melting away and the dreams she’s worked so hard for coming to fruition. But then she learns that to gain her inheritance she’ll be forcing Beckett Walsh to sell the only place she feels safe in the world. Callie is certain she has no right to someone else’s farm, but when her mother reenters her life seeking help for her lifelong issues with substance use, Callie is desperate to help. For her, everything hinges on discovering why she was named in that trust.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? My first book was set in middle Tennessee and my second…

March 1967 Glory Ann scooped her daughter from the back seat, relishing the sweet pudge still lingering on the fifteen-month-old’s lengthening legs. The curly-haired tot pushed back from her mother’s embrace and bore her blue-eyed gaze into Glory Ann’s. “Down! Me do it.” Glory Ann swiped a thumb across the child’s sticky cheek. “Okay, but stay close and no running. It’s Gramma Hawthorne’s birthday.” Her chest tightened. “And we must be on our very, very best behavior.” Glory Ann put her daughter down and straightened the crumpled flounces of the tiny pink dress. She then smoothed the front of her own orange shift. “Now, hold my hand.” It had been months since she’d been home to see her parents, and though her mother promised she’d come to Brighton, she had never made the one-hour drive. Not in the many months her little one grew in her middle. Not when she’d labored in the sterile hospital, longing for her mother’s hand to hold. Nor any other time during the fifteen months of her daughter’s life. She took a shaking breath and found an anchor in her child’s tight grip on her thumb. It had seemed a fun idea to surprise Mother…

1–What’s the name of your latest release?  The Edge of Belonging 2–What is it about? The Edge of Belonging is a dual timeline story about a homeless man who finds an abandoned newborn. His greatest desire is to protect her from the experiences he had in foster care.  Twenty-four years later, Ivy goes back to her hometown to manage her grandmother’s estate sale and finds out that her grandmother left behind a way for her to learn about Ivy’s adoption. But, a key piece to the mystery is missing. 3–What word best describes your main character(s)? Harvey: Extreme Independence. Life has taught him that people aren’t to be trusted. But when he finds an abandoned newborn, it completely overturns his hermit’s way of life, and he starts to reevaluate if he really is incapable of being loved. Ivy: Searching. She suddenly becomes aware of just how fragile the life she was building for herself was. She finds herself going back to her roots to rediscover her sense of identity, but in the process discovers there’s a lot she doesn’t know about the people who raised her. 4–What makes your story relatable?  I think most of us can relate to craving…