I write stories for women who need a break—from perfection, from pressure, and sometimes from people altogether. My books explore friendship, reinvention, romantic mishaps, and the kind of laughter that sneaks up on you while reading in bed… often while your significant other is trying to sleep. 😄

If you've ever texted your best friend something wildly inappropriate just to survive a Tuesday…or wish you could hit a reset button on questionable life choices… we’ll get along great.

Check out my full list of titles below, and read more about my latest releases.

Meet the Benton sisters

Victoria Benton Franklin is the only normal one. She has the steady job, the ex-husband safely across the country, the daughter at boarding school, and one modest dream: turn the crumbling farmhouse she's loved for years into her own B&B. Then a thirty-three-year-old developer named Alex Morrison buys it out from under her to build an amusement park — and has the sheer nerve to move into her spare room as her tenant.

Now the man who bulldozed her dream is making coffee in her kitchen, winning over her impossible family, and proving infuriatingly hard to hate. Which would be plenty to ruin any December — even before the paparazzi chasing her famous ex roll into town and her three sisters' carefully arranged lives start detonating one by one.

By Christmas Day, the only normal sister will have to admit that none of them ever were — and that the man she swore she'd never forgive might be the best thing to happen to her all year.

Some agents get medals. This one gets belly rubs.

Meet Daisy Ratzenberger: nine pounds of pure fury, decorated operative of the Secret Wiener Society, and devoted protector of a lonely lady named Claire — a woman with a hopeless talent for bringing home exactly the wrong man.

Armed with her trusty iWeen, a squad of imaginary dachshund colleagues, and an unshakable belief in her own importance, Daisy documents it all: the date who lost his pants, the doctor who rubs bellies with two fingers (TWO FINGERS), the mysterious storm-drain Portal to the badger underworld, and the suspiciously wonderful young writer across the street who might — just might — be one of the good ones.

She can't drive (long story — a file was lost). She can't work a phone (no thumbs). And she definitely can't tell Claire which man to choose. But when Daisy's big chance at freedom goes wildly wrong, she'll discover what every dog secretly knows: the real mission was never the badgers.

A laugh-out-loud, tissue-alert retelling of There Are No Men from the only witness who saw it all — from under the coffee table.

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Whether you're a reader, a writer, or a fellow lover of words in all their forms, I’m glad you’re virtually here with me in my empty nest (our kids are grown, successful, and thriving) in Richmond, VA—where I live with my husband and two adorable wiener dogs, Benny and Moose.