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One night, after High Tide closed, Owen met her at the defunct Coast Guard helicopter pad near the center of the island. It was overgrown and useless as a landing site now, weeds splitting through the cracks in the faded...

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Claire spotted him before he saw her. Six-thirty in the morning, barely a hint of sun on the horizon, and Jesse was already standing knee-deep in the surf as if he’d walked straight out of a Hollister commercial. He was ...

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Mandy was never meant to be a true villain.

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In Book 1, if Ash is growth, Emily is tension.

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I love the romantic version of writing.

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What About the Bad Woman?

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I love that people are into reading.

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People throw around “southern gothic” like it just means Spanish moss and ghosts.

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I didn’t invent Haven Island out of thin air.

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There’s a strange binary in modern fiction where intimacy gets categorized as either “tasteful fade-to-black” or “smut.” You’re either Nicholas Sparks standing politely outside the bedroom door, or you’ve kicked it open ...

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I realize now that the 2026 movie has made Wuthering Heights trendy, so I should clarify why I used a WH quote in my book. First, WH is my favorite book and has been since I was a teenager. No, we won't unpack the reason...

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If you've read my work, then you know I don’t write neat love stories (unless it's fan fiction).

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Excerpt from Between the Moon and the Tide (Haven Island, Book One)

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One of the hardest questions to answer as an author is:\n“So… what is your book like?”

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