My eleventh Superromance, NO ORDINARY HOME, is currently on bookstore shelves. I can’t believe I have eleven books out and ideas for more stories continue to pop into my head! One of the themes I explore in this book is the question of how much of themselves celebrities owe to the public. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a celebrity? To be so famous that most people would recognize you when you walked down the street? I know I would find it a nightmare to live in that kind of fishbowl, and to have paparazzi follow me everywhere I go. I can understand why some child stars have trouble navigating through tumultuous teen years into adulthood…and why so many of them lose their way. Unfortunately for them, their breakdowns are all too public. The media seem to relish exposing their flaws. My heroine, Gracie Travers. has experienced the nightmare of living in a fishbowl and has gone to great lengths to preserve her privacy and sanity as an adult. In the end, through the hero, Austin Trumball, she just might lose it all. Her fear of exposure is tangible. In her own words… “Do you…

I’m writing this post on Mother’s Day, after having spent a wonderful day with my daughter, and I’m thinking about my heroine in my current book, ALWAYS EMILY. Emily doesn’t have children of her own, but the hero does. Five years older than Emily, Salem married years ago, breaking Emily’s fourteen-year-old heart. He and his wife had two daughters. His wife is now dead and the girls are at a vulnerable stage, one smack dab in the middle of adolescence and the second just entering into it. When Emily returns to her hometown after years away, the elder of the two girls is in trouble. She is having serious problems at school and with a boy. Emily is thrust into the center because Salem asks for her help. His daughter needs a woman to help her sort through confusing, overwhelming emotions. Things were so much easier when he was handling simple problems like scraped knees. Now, dealing with teenaged girls and their adolescent issues, he feels out of his depth. It was interesting for me to imagine how a woman would feel when having to deal with someone else’s children, when she has had no experience with her own. She…