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My historical and contemporary fiction features LGBTQ characters facing hard decisions in difficult circumstances. Click on any book below to learn more about it or to download a sample. Browse this site for more about me and my work.

  • Extended Capacity

    Extended Capacity

    A school shooting is a nightmare that happens in other towns until it comes to yours A small town in Maine wakes up thinking it’s just another winter day. Dr. Liz Stolz is preparing to teach a gun safety class. Police Chief Brenda Harrison is heading to present her new… Read more…

    $5.99
  • The Vanishing Bridge

    The Vanishing Bridge

    Rev. Susan Gedney returns to Hobbs after facing the wreckage of her past in the Midwest, but she soon learns her own recovery is incomplete until she earns back everyone’s trust. Susan remembers what she learned in Rehab: ‘You’re only as sick as your secrets’. She may have to reveal… Read more…

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  • The Rector’s Wedding

    The Rector’s Wedding

    Hobbs Book 8 Rev. Lucy Bartlett’s life couldn’t be more perfect. She’s turned around her crumbling church. She’s finishing her doctorate and publishing her first book. Best of all, she is engaged to marry her soulmate, Dr. Liz Stolz. Once a world-famous opera singer, Lucy has been coaching the church’s… Read more…

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  • Strands

    Strands

    Hobbs Book 7 In this seventh volume of the Hobbs series, Lucy Bartlett, the rector of the Episcopal Church, and town doctor, Liz Stolz, have finally announced their engagement. They get pushback from surprising places, even from friends they’ve counted on for support. Unresolved issues from Liz’s first marriage cloud… Read more…

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  • Summer People

    Summer People

    Hobbs Books 6 After a dark winter of loss and isolation, the summer people are returning, including forty-something Melissa Morgenstern, a trust lawyer from Boston. Melissa has been working remotely since the pandemic began. She has temporarily moved to Maine to comfort her widowed mother. Up to now, Melissa’s devotion… Read more…

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  • The Dark Winter

    The Dark Winter

    Hobbs Book 5 In this fifth volume of the series, the residents of Hobbs, Maine, are relieved to have gotten through the summer relatively unscathed by the pandemic. Town doctor, Liz Stolz, is warning about a fall surge, but everyone is ready to get back to normal. Liz has agreed… Read more…

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  • The Imperative of Desire

    The Imperative of Desire

    Passing Rites Book 1 In the waning years of Queen Victoria’s reign, a brilliant daughter is born to an aristocratic, military family in Prussia. A quirk of inheritance law allows Margarethe von Stahle to inherit her family’s titles. Her elders collaborate to educate her to take on her future duties,… Read more…

    $7.99
  • Thirsty Thursdays

    Thirsty Thursdays

    Hobbs Book 4 Hobbs, Maine, is gradually reopening after the lockdown. Town doctor Liz Stolz has begun a new tradition, Thirsty Thursdays, a weekly cocktail party on her deck, so her friends can socialize safely. Architect Samantha McKinnon has recently moved to Maine to start a renovation business. Liz recommends… Read more…

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  • Love in the Time of Corona

    Love in the Time of Corona

    Hobbs Book 3 This third novel in the popular Hobbs series tells the inspiring story of how a community of close friends deals with the pandemic. It’s midwinter in Maine, and the biggest problem is a snowstorm. Only Liz Stolz, the senior doctor of Hobbs Family practice, is paying attention… Read more…

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  • This Is My Body

    This Is My Body

    Hobbs Book 2 The new rector of St. Margaret’s by the Sea Episcopal Church has a secret. Lucille Bartlett was a rising star at the Metropolitan Opera, but she disappeared from the stage and no one knows why. Philosophy Professor Erika Bultmann is a confirmed agnostic, who doesn’t have much… Read more…

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  • High October

    High October

      Hobbs Book 1 Is 40 years too long to wait for the one you love? Liz Stolz and Maggie Fitzgerald were college roommates until Maggie confessed to her parents that she was in love with a woman. Maggie gave up her dream of becoming an actress and married her…

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  • Acts of Contrition

    Acts of Contrition

    Passing Rites Book 4 World War II has finally come to an end and Berlin is in ruins. Nearly everything Margarethe von Stahle has sworn to protect has been lost. After being brutally abused by occupying Russian soldiers, Margarethe must rely on the kindness of her friends to survive. Fortunately,… Read more…

    $7.99
  • Lies of Omission

    Lies of Omission

    Passing Rites Book2 GCLS and Rainbow Award winner for Historical Fiction. In 1938, Margarethe von Stahle is desperately trying to practice ethical medicine despite the Nazi policy of “racial hygiene” that is forcing doctors to collaborate in the extermination of the handicapped and mentally ill. She has always avoided politics,… Read more…

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  • Occasions of Sin

    Occasions of Sin

    Passing Rites Book 2 For seven centuries, the German convent of Obberoth has been hiding the nuns’ secrets—forbidden passions, scandalous manuscripts locked away, a ruined medical career, perhaps even a murder. In 1931, Margarethe von Stahle, an aristocratic physician, arrives at the convent to interview Sister Augustine, a candidate for… Read more…

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About me

I've been scribbling stories since high school. My first novel was published in 2012. I consider myself primarily a historical novelist, but I am probably best known for the contemporary Hobbs series, featuring a group of middle-aged women living in a small town in Maine. The Passing Rites series is set in Europe in the early 20th century. Two volumes in the series have won awards for historical fiction.

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Reading from my work

A reading from Book 7 of the Hobbs series as part of my "author of the week" on IReadIndies.com.

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