Bio

I was born and raised in eastern Mass (go, Sox!), and have lived my whole life in New England.  I did the public school thing, surviving the 80s with no lasting scars aside from a few photos of me with spiked hair and a rat tail (and no, I’m so not posting those).  During the 90s, I did a double stint at Tufts University for an undergraduate biology degree and a PhD in genetics, with a year-long break in between that can best be described as: “I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up; I think I’ll do some landscaping”… followed by “um, okay; I think I’ll go back to school now.”

During grad school and for a year after, I worked at the New England Eye Center, helping search for the genetic changes responsible for certain types of glaucoma.  It was very cool work, but the writing aspect of science suited me far better than the labwork.  It wasn’t until the committee head complimented my doctoral thesis by saying it “read like a mystery novel” that I admitted I was… um… writing a romantic suspense novel in my free time.  A year later, I left the lab and spent the next while freelancing as a scientific editor and riding instructor while I worked on getting my writing career off the ground.

Released in October of ’03, my first Harlequin Intrigue, Dr. Bodyguard, was an RT Top Pick and kicked off a long string of largely science-themed romantic intrigues that have hit the category bestseller lists and been nominated for Reviewers’ Choice and RITA awards.  The books have collectively sold well over a million copies, and have been translated into eight different languages and counting.  For that, I’d like to extend my heartfelt thanks to my readers and fans!

These days, I’m also writing Mayan mythology-based paranormals for NAL.  Entitled The Novels of the Final Prophecy, this series tell of the ancient myths that come to life in the last four years before December 21, 2012, and their opposition by the Nightkeepers, descendants of an ancient magic-wielding race sworn to protect mankind from the apocalypse. In Nightkeepers, their last king is forced to team up with a sexy narcotics detective in order to reunite his scattered warriors and fight the gods of the Mayan underworld. Wielding ancestral magic based on bloodletting and sex, the king will have to choose between duty and his love for the human woman who is the gods' destined sacrifice.  To learn more about the series, click here.