I'm excited to be launching my first book, though I've discovered that the writing process is way more fun than the publishing process. Give me a day with nothing but my computer, some good music, and a bunch of chocolate (see my blog called chocolate daydreams), and I'm in heaven.

I reside in Utah as the fortunate wife of one amazing, supportive, and dang-good-looking husband; and the mother to five equally amazing children -- though three of them have betrayed me and turned into adults, going against my direct orders to stay little forever. The fourth will be doing the same in a matter of seconds, and so I'm holding on to my youngest's sense of childhood wonder for all I'm worth. (My oldest is bringing me a grandbaby soon, so she's forgiven.) For what its worth, I don't think my dog will ever grow up.

Where Hearts Prosper came about when I happened to be reading a book about a natural disaster back east at the same time that a natural disaster happened in my neck of the woods (a usually safe and quiet part of the world), and I just couldn't keep my brain from putting together the story of Carmen, and her daughter Paige, stranded in Prosper - a tiny and unfamiliar fictional town in northern Arizona - during the real-life flooding that happened there in 2005. I hope you'll enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed dreaming it up!

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