The Ultimate Betrayal (Maximum Security) Kat Martin A routine flight turns into a suspenseful race through the remote jungles of Honduras. When strangers Breanna Winters and Derek Stiles met on a flight to Colombia, they never imagined they would need to rely on each other for survival. Taken hostage by … Read More
California Sunset: Later-in-Life Contemporary Romance
In 2011, my husband and I walked away from the life we’d known in California. Our house, savings, and jobs were gone, wiped out by the recession and less-than-stellar decisions. We headed to Montana, a place where I’d known peace in my twenties. With us came several work-in-progress manuscripts and … Read More
Kyna’s Offering: Free Books to Inspire
Sometimes you simply need to escape. Kyna knows this. The world can be a bit crazy at times, even if its your own personal world. The milk is sour, the bills total more than the income, and the much-needed rain falls from the sky, beating your just-bloomed tulips into the … Read More
The Myth of Kyna
Kyna was born in an ordinary time to normal dysfunctional parents. From her father she learned to never let anyone too close lest they see your imperfections. From her mother she learned to bear unbearable cruelty in silence. When she was older, she married imperfect men, while trying to hide … Read More
Clash of Worlds in Fiction and Non-Fiction, Part Two
Fiction can be plodding and dull without tension, and that is provided by conflict. In my current WIP, the two main characters come from different worlds, have different belief systems, and different goals. Yet they are attracted to each other and like each other as people. This often occurs in … Read More
Clash of Worlds in Fiction and Non-Fiction, Part One
When I arrived on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana to teach junior high in the fall of 1976, I had no idea what I was getting into. Nor did I understand how the next three years would impact my life and perspective. I did learn a lot about … Read More
An Amazing Country – White Sands National Park
Our travel trailer journeys have now led us to New Mexico. I haven’t spent much time in the state. My memories are of spending a half day in Albuquerque waiting for repairs on my 1970-something golden yellow Datsun pickup, circling the plaza in Santa Fe, and a tour of Carlsbad … Read More
Beginning of Book 6
Monday I began book 6 of the Beck Family Saga. So far there is no title. Maybe I should run a contest … hmmm. Anyway, my inspiration for the opening was an agile woman I saw climbing what to me looked like the sheer face of a cliff. I mean … Read More
California Romance – Mothers and Young Adults
The relationship between mothers and daughters has its ups and downs as any woman will tell you. Throughout their relationship, they may be close, drifting apart, coming back together, or at complete odds. The five contemporary romance stories that make up my California Romance Series are, at their heart, stories … Read More
Western Wind: Random Thoughts
Wind drove women in the sod houses on the plains mad. Even mad enough to take their own lives. “OOOOk-lahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain,” per Oscar Hammerstein II. Pilots learn to take off in the wind in Great Falls, MT, the windiest city in America according … Read More