Book 1 in the Dear Roz Series - The Lover's Workshop

Rozlyn Rook is a quick thinking, no-nonsense mistress of her own destiny. With a successful advice column under her belt and an even more lucrative "male-trapping" workshop several times a year, her days are filled with the quiet satisfaction every alpha female enjoys. However, a problem appears on the horizon in the shape of Sue Peoples, a vicious magazine critic. Sue has enrolled into one of Roz's workshops for one reason. Roz stole her boyfriend, and nobody does that to Sue Peoples and survives.

Enter an English Knight. Nathan Knight, writer of an advice column for men about women for a rival newspaper. Although they have never met, the two have sparred using their columns as weapons. He has read her provocative words, finding them ignorant and arrogant, much like he assumes she would be. When Nathan's friend and boss conspires to have them seated next to each other for his own amusement at a charity event, the fuse gets lit. Best to stand back. Roz already has her hands full with a vicious magazine critic who set her career-destroying sights on her. One is a thorn in her side, the other, a pain in her... assets.

Roz quickly finds herself one down in the one-upmanship game that Nathan started. That is totally unacceptable to the Queen of the advice column. She is now battling on two fronts and in danger of losing on both. How can she thwart a critic hellbent on her destruction while dealing with a vile, irritating, conceited, incredibly annoying, mildly attractive English upstart at the same time? His actions have already cost her the boyfriend she unwittingly stole from Sue. Roz is two down and blazing mad. It doesn't help that Nathan of the 'Nathan Knows Best' column appears unscathed through it all. The gloves are well and truly off and she will have her revenge. Or will she?

Book 2 in the Dear Roz Series - Rook Battles Knight

Roz and Nathan lock horns almost immediately. Roz rashly decides to confront Nathan at his place of work. Bad idea. Her usual razor sharp tongue and wit lets her down, but awakens a sleeping desire in Nathan to entertain himself at Rozlyn's expense. His lesbian assistant, Betty, warns her boss about playing with fire, but Nathan is having way too much fun to heed her advice. They are two diametrically opposed forces, Roz will never admit defeat, and Nathan has never encountered it. Undeniable chemistry clashes with unyielding wills.

Nathan is using Roz’s successful seminar model as the lattice work for his own seminar, which proves to be just another source of irritation between these two powerhouse relationship gurus. Roz's disdain for Nathan's tactics masks an attraction neither one will readily admit, but one their close assistants, Maxine and Betty, recognize and exploit.  When the two get together and concoct a plan to put the heterosexual pair through a crazy ‘Lesbian List of Love’ test, all hell breaks loose. Fueled by a desire to prove their assistants wrong they compare their test scores over several beers. Inhibitions and suspicious natures disappear as fast as the alcohol. Their worst fears are realized as desire overpowers objections, leading to an unforgettable encounter. Roz recognizes the danger that Nathan represents but despite her best intentions, is drawn to the charismatic Englishman. As for Nathan, he can't get her out of his head... and finds himself lacking the will to try.

They attempt to out prank one another in a futile effort to camouflage their real feelings. Both are scared of commitment, one more so than the other. Which one will be strong enough to put aside their pride rather than risk losing the other?

Book 3 in the Dear Roz Series - Checkmate, My Love

Maxine has Roz half convinced that Nathan fully intends to pop the question... and he does. Just not the question she expects. She feels devastated and embarrassed. She knows it's not his fault, but that knowledge doesn't lessen the hurt.

Nathan is oblivious to the part he played in Rozlyn's mood swings and seeks Betty's help in understanding Roz's depression. Betty is only too happy to verbally slap Nathan around. How can a relationship expert be so dumb, she needs to know. All women will recognize the symptoms and the cure that can't be administered for reasons only women will understand. Betty's advice is priceless, but it is up to Nathan's bosses wife to heal the wound and answer the question about what makes men cry. Armed with this knowledge, Roz has Nathan convinced that Roz wanting him to admit to weeping on occasion is some kind of fetish. One that he in no way adheres to. Things are for the most part back on an even keel.

Not so fast. An incident happens on one of their workshops involving a woman that would look at home modeling Victoria Secret underwear... and her sights are set on Nathan. Nathan finds this woman incredibly attractive and jokes about it to Roz. A joke is one thing, but when evidence, first and second hand back up his desire for this beauty, Roz's life is turned upside down. Only now does she realize just how much of herself she has given to her English boyfriend. She is at her most vulnerable and he does nothing to alleviate her distress. If Maxine and Betty can't find a way to reunite these two hard headed individuals, then all is lost.

Book 4 in the Dear Roz Series - The Laird of Bahscot

Roz and Nathan met the Laird of Bahscot, Gordon Wilkinson, through Nathan's long time Scottish friend, Angus. Although now a music teacher, Angus had served his country in one of its elite fighting units and had seen combat in several special ops missions. The love of Angus' life is Daisy. An ex combat instructor and helicopter pilot, she attended one of Roz's 'manhunter' workshops. It was Nathan, however, that was responsible for introducing Daisy and Angus to each other.

Gordon's first wife had died in childbirth. Heartbreak was mixed with the joy of raising his only child, a daughter. When his daughter was fourteen, Gordon fell in love with and married a Colombian beauty. However, he had indicated to Roz and Nathan once before that all was not well in his marriage. His wife and the love of his life, Maria had been the daughter of a Colombian drug cartel boss until his death in a shootout with local authorities. She worshipped her father, often mistaking his ruthlessness for manliness. Gordon had courted and married the Colombian beauty a few months after they met. Her brother Eduardo was ecstatic that his sister would have the opportunity for a new life and happiness.

Being Colombian, Maria had a fiery temper and during an argument with her husband, she had called him weak. 

No bigger insult could be levelled at a Colombian male. It made little difference that Gordon was American. Shortly after, Maria returned to Colombia to visit her brother and other members of her family. An email from Eduardo to Gordon spelled trouble for their marriage.

A charismatic up and coming vicious cartel capo by the name of Manolito Oroja had designs on Maria. He was as ruthless as her father had been and she was fast falling under his spell. Eduardo had warned Gordon of this danger, but how exactly to deal with this situation when his wife believes him weak?

Gordon reached out to Roz and Nathan. Perhaps they could help put the spark back in his relationship with Maria. After all, they both ran workshops to help men and women find and keep the partners of their dreams. After listening to Gordon's marital plight, Nathan realized that a lover's workshop was not the answer in this case. Time was of the essence. That fact was made evident when a Colombian hit man was sent to erase Gordon from the land of the living so that Maria would be free to remarry.

Roz, Nathan, and Angus along with the help of Daisy, had to come up with a plan to thwart the plans of a killer cartel capo and at the same time prove to Maria that Gordon was not the weakling she thought him to be. No easy task given the time frame and the circumstances. Gordon was horrified at Nathan's proposal and even more horrified at Angus' suggestion. Gordon's biggest problem was that he had four true friends. Friends that would put their lives on the line for him if necessary. A price Gordon had no desire to pay but no way to stop.

Join the characters you have come to love as they demonstrate their brand of love and humor for and towards each other, and loyalty to any they call friend. This dangerous adventure highlights these traits through every chapter as they navigate their way through the Colombian terrain and into the heart of the drug cartel's fortress of operations. So much could jeopardize their lives as well as the mission, especially since Angus had been hunted once before in this same exact region whilst on a covert one-man military mission.

Love, humor, respect and true friendship. All of this wrapped up in a nail-biting story. Coming soon. Enjoy.

The Emergency Hotline - Book 1 in the Series

Online entrepreneur Steve Cooper has his own emergency. His mother, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's, has gone missing while on vacation abroad. Young unemployed but street smart Calvin Brooks has been conscripted to look after his friend's business during his absence.

When anybody who calls up with an emergency, either real or imagined, it is Steve's job to connect that person with the professional most qualified to help. The heartbeat of his business is a Rolodex and cell phone, each with all of the appropriate numbers of these professionals. Money for old rope. Unless you manage to lose both before Steve even leaves the country. Now what do you do? If you're Calvin, you answer the calls and provide your own misguided brand of professional advice. Aided by Bob, the friend who was responsible for the loss of the Rolodex, madness ensues.

Calvin's first two customers are both hell bent on committing suicide by throwing themselves from tall buildings. Using highly irresponsible techniques, he manages to dissuade both from their fate, but at a cost. Janet, the first caller and a stripper by trade, has decided that fate has used Calvin to bring them both together in eventual wedlock. Meanwhile, the second 'would be jumper' Mike, has convinced himself not only that Janet holds the key to his happiness but that Calvin has inappropriate designs on her, himself.

With Bob's help, Calvin has to juggle keeping Steve's business afloat with earning enough money to replace his expensive phone. Throw into the mix a woman in her mid-sixties with multiple personality disorder. Her wealthy son offers Calvin decent money to look after his mother while he takes care of his multi million dollar business deals. It turns out that Sylvia becomes a different person depending on which room she is in, a fact Calvin comes to grips with in hilarious fashion. In three different rooms, Sylvia becomes a sex crazed aristocrat, the daughter of a naval admiral and a German psychiatrist whose second job is located in Helga's house of pain.

In the middle of all this, Calvin's partner in crime has received a call from Mary in Chicago. Mary thought she had called a psychic hotline whose number was one digit removed from Steve's office phone. Bob was less than honest with Mary suggesting she was due to receive a substantial cash windfall from an ailing uncle. Who would have guessed that Mary, accompanied by her demonic one-eyed cat, would track Bob down?

Will Calvin manage to evade wedding bells? Will Mary sue Bob? Will Mike persuade Janet that he is the better man? Will Calvin earn enough money to replace Steve's expensive phone? Can the Rolodex be located before Steve gets back? Does Steve find his mother? Will Calvin's sanity prevail against Sylvia's eccentric excesses?

Lose yourself in this hilarious romp as these questions and more are asked and answered.

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Here are a few kind words about this book sent to me from two of my editors:-

Oh my goodness!!!! I am dying with this story! My husband is looking at me as if I've gone mad because of my laughter! Will have this to you tonight. I love it!

Such a wonderful, funny, and light-hearted story despite the serious issues displayed throughout.

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Aw I’m so disappointed that it’s over! This was by far my favorite work of yours to edit. Although all three Dear Roz’s were fantastic, this was just… something else. The book felt effortless to read. There wasn’t a single instance where I was bored- ever. Will you be writing more to follow Calvin’s journey with his own hotline or is this the end? Please let me know!