I’ve spent more than thirty years as a healthcare executive - building, scaling, & leading across organizations, markets, and communities throughout the U.S. and beyond. At the center of that work has always been people: how we connect, how we navigate change, and how we rebuild when life doesn’t go according to plan

Storytelling, it turns out, isn’t that different.

While I presently live in a coastal community in Florida, I spent fifteen years in Maryland, DC & Virginia area - many of those weekends and holidays in Annapolis. It’s a place that stays with you. The light on the water, the weight of history in the buildings, the sense that not everything has been fully told.

The Annapolis Wharfs & Whispers Mysteries grew from that feeling - of a town layered with stories, some remembered, some deliberately forgotten.

At the center of the series is Evie Simmons, a former travel marketer who trades a fast-paced career for a second act in Annapolis. She builds a business, a community, and - whether she intends to or not - a reputation for uncovering what others would prefer stay hidden.

Evie isn’t me. But she lives in the same questions.

• What does it mean to reinvent in your fifties?

• What do we carry forward - and what do we finally let go?

• And who do we become when we stop performing & start choosing?

I write cozy mysteries for women who understand that midlife isn’t a winding down - it’s a sharpening. These stories explore friendships across generations, the realities of divorce, grief, and reinvention, and the undeniable truth that women are stronger, smarter, and more interesting - together.

There are also great shoes, excellent food & wine, two very opinionated rescue dogs, and just enough romance to remind you that it’s never too late to begin again.

Because the most interesting women I know aren’t starting over - they’re continually learning and reinventing on their own terms.