I reside in Connecticut with beloved family, friends, and pets. I enjoy gardening, yoga, cooking, reading, and hiking in my spare time.
I've been writing in various genres for three decades and am an award winning and nationally recognized author, blogger, and poet.
<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>
Forever Friends is a story I've had in my head for the past twenty years. Once I finally sat down to write, the book came to life.
<div class="a-section"> <div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R3TCYW2EB0LF6U/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0578141817&nodeID=283155&store=books">Beautiful</a></div> <span class="a-color-secondary"><span class="a-size-normal"><span class="a-color-secondary">By </span> <a class="noTextDecoration" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1RL1Q5LPSFZL6/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp">Ashley</a> </span> <span class="a-color-secondary"> on July 17, 2014</span></span></div> <div class="a-section">I received this book from the author and from Paranormal Romance and Authors That Rock.<br /> Forever Friends is a paranormal/fantasy romance.<br /> Skye met the man of her dreams literally. Raine has been with her for lifetimes but their love is always cut short. Raine recognizes who Skye is and tries to coax her into remembering. They are being hunted by the king of vampires, Alec. Alec lost his love centuries ago and his life has been consumed by revenge. Raine was supposed to protect his love but she died so he blamed him and vowed to make him feel the same as he does. The Gods have other plans and it soon unfolds, nothing is as it seems and things change over the times. Alec meets Morgan, Skye's best friend. He plans to use her to get to Skye but he starts to feel something for her that he hasn't for centuries. Will it be enough to stop his vengeance? Raine and Skye have to come together and plan to keep evil from destroying their lives again. Both couples find something worth fighting for but is it enough to stop evil?<br /><br /> A beautiful good vs evil story. Soul mates spanned over lifetimes to be with each other again. I enjoyed this story. I thought the concept was wonderful and unique. It wasn't just a vampire or werewolf novel it was so much more. It mixed three supernatural races witches, vampires and werewolves. The characters were real and I was pulled into each of their stories. My favorite was Alec. I sympathized with him and saw the torment he went through.<br /> The only problem I had was that sometimes the story flowed too well especially towards the end. There were a couple parts that I didn't find believable but I still enjoyed the story.<br /> I recommend this to paranormal romance fans looking for a beautiful love story.</div>