The Books
A trilogy of adventure romance, sweet with tension: slow-burn love tested by danger, secrets, and some of the most beautiful places on earth. Book Three, Sons and Daughters, is coming in early 2027.
The Trilogy
Willful Blindness
A disenchanted wife sets sail across the Atlantic for a new life, then returns to America to fight a hostile battle over a dead man’s estate. Buy on Amazon
“An auspicious debut for an author who displays a clear talent for romantic intrigue.” — Kirkus Reviews
Book One
Lovers and War
Divorced by the King of Arabia in three simple words, Sophia sails to Ireland and straight back to her first love, Captain Sean O’Neil, until a crisis at Aratex pulls them toward the war-torn Persian Gulf. Buy on Amazon
Book Two
Book ThreeSons and Daughters
The final chapter of the trilogy. Coming in early 2027.
Willful Blindness
She married for love. She stayed for appearances.
In 1985, Sophia married Edward Lawrence on impulse. He was a handsome Boston attorney with an aristocratic British pedigree, two New England homes, a yacht, and a place in society most women would envy. Ten years later, Sophia knows exactly what she is to him: an ornament. And she is done looking the other way.
So she does the unthinkable. She leaves, and she sails across the Atlantic.
But when she reaches Ireland, word arrives that Edward is dead, and Sophia must go home to face his twin brother, Henry, in a bitter fight over everything Edward left behind. Then, in London, she meets Prince Abdullah bin Abbas of Arabia, and before she can catch her breath she is swept into a royal life that carries her from London and Scotland to the Arabian desert.
It feels like a fairytale, until the desert teaches her what it costs to keep her eyes closed.
Willful Blindness is a love story about learning to see clearly, and the courage it takes to finally look.
“An auspicious debut for an author who displays a clear talent for romantic intrigue.” — Kirkus Reviews
Lovers and War
I divorce you. I divorce you. I divorce you.
Three words, spoken three times, and Princess Sophia’s world is gone. But walking away from the King of Arabia is never that simple, not when she and Abdullah still share one of the largest companies on earth.
So Sophia does what she does best. She reinvents herself, for the third time in her short life, and sets sail along the wild coast of Ireland, where a chance encounter brings her face to face with her first love, Captain Sean O’Neil.
Old friends become new lovers, and the sparks fly. But Sophia’s new life is shrouded in secrecy, and Sean carries a past of his own. When a crisis at Aratex pulls them from the windswept Irish coast to the war-torn Persian Gulf, they must fight to save her company, his family’s ancient estate, and a love tested by bigotry, betrayal, and the secrets neither dares to share.
Falling in love was easy. Living a lie with your best friend is a whole lot harder.
Sons and Daughters
A duke and a king, bound together by a company, a wife, and an ex-wife.
Sean O’Neil, now a duke, sits at the helm of Aratex as its CEO, running the company side by side with Abdullah, King of Arabia, the man Sophia once married. It is a partnership built on uneasy trust, and the life Sophia and Sean have fought so hard for is about to be tested in ways none of them imagined.
Some secrets wait a generation. As a new generation comes of age, the past they buried refuses to stay quiet. One young man’s very existence holds a truth that could change everything. And when loss after loss strikes the family, Sophia must decide how much truth love can survive.
From the wild coast of Ireland to the palaces of Arabia, Sons and Daughters brings the trilogy to its close, with a story of family, loyalty, and the ties that bind us, whether we choose them or not.
Coming in early 2027.