Books

Twenty years after he left WWI’s battlefields, Australian Joe Parker thinks he has tamed all his demons. His American wife Sophie, a wartime nurse, thinks she knows all his secrets. He hasn’t. She doesn’t.

July 1939. The Parkers are looking forward to a long-delayed honeymoon in France before they sail home to Sydney. But visiting a site where...

A mother’s love. A new love. As the Pacific War looms ever closer to Australia, will waiting and wondering break their hearts?

September 1939. Sophie Parker nursed wounded soldiers in France during the Great War. She knows the physical and mental devastation war can wreak on hearts, minds, and bodies. When WWII breaks out, and Australia is called...

My short story “Ripples In a Pond” in Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women, is a companion piece to my novels.

Feisty women spanning six centuries ...

The twenty-three stories in this collection depict ordinary women—from the 1470s to the 1970s—who meet life’s challenges with fierce determination.

An unhappy housewife in 1950s...