Discover the Magic of Words
Welcome to My Site,
Where you can explore a captivating collection of fiction novels across the contemporary, paranormal and erotic romance as well as magical realism genres. Immerse yourself in compelling storytelling and a unique narrative style that will transport you to a fascinating world beyond belief.​
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Come on in if you wish to learn that words are not just words. They are magic keys to a wondrous fantasy realm. They have the power to wrestle fears into submission, open locked doors in distrustful minds, soften hardened hearts, and awaken slumbering spirits as they tempt us to journey into places where hopes are realized, desires fulfilled, and even the loftiest dreams come true.
Author's Journey
Meet the Author
I am an accomplished contemporary fiction author with a background in professional feature film screenwriting and a Master's in Communication Studies who has written five novels thus far. The Last Solo Roller was written originally as a screenplay. My passion for storytelling has led me to create the Down the Prairie Rabbit Hole Romance Series, following the triumphs and tribulations of a variety of colorful and loveable characters.
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In between incomprehensible death-defying adventures and inexplicable and unexpected blessings from the spirit realm, I explore my imaginary friends' romantic relationship problems and interpersonal conflicts. Though my characters and their experiences seem larger than life, they really aren't so different from us and our own that we can't be inspired by and grow from their stories. It's better that they endure the ups and downs of walking the rocky red road of life than us, after all. Right?​​
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"Words are in my not-so-humble opinion our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of inflicting injury and remedying it." J K Rowling
Montana Rafferty Moss
"Words were originally magic, and [each] word retains much of its old magical power even today." Sigmund Freud
Born in Virginia to an Army officer working at the Pentagon, my mother took me and four siblings to live in Florida after my dad left to serve in Korea. Then we moved to New York where he taught Military Science at Siena College. A few years in beautiful Germany after that was followed by an idyllic time in Fort Riley, Kansas. It was where I caught fireflies and watched daily for the tornado that never came.
When he retired, we moved to San Diego, California, where I eventually married and had three sons. Then it was off to live in Seattle until Y2K, when we left for Missoula, Montana, on the eve of the millennium. Although I divorced and moved away over twenty years later, one son remains there. Another is in Tucson and the youngest is here in Colorado Springs. I have five grandchildren, three step-grandchildren, and a step-great-grandchild between the three.
I live with my best friend, Angel, a Ragdoll cat. Maybe someday when I tire of writing, I'll give romantic love a try again. I'm having far too much fun right now living it vicariously through my characters. ;o)
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"Walk in the rain, smell flowers, stop along the way, build sandcastles, go on field trips, find out how things work, tell stories, say the magic words, trust the universe." Bruce Williamson
Book Collection: Dive into the "Down the Prairie
Rabbit Hole Romance Series"
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The
Last
Solo
Roller
A successful male escort faces a serious dilemma when he falls for the one and only woman who got away.
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No woman has ever cut and run on the suave and sexy stranger with the mesmerizing blue eyes. After eight years as a midnight cowboy cruising the American Midwest from North Dakota down to Texas on his Harley and thrilling lonely female travelers rolling solo through small towns with his sexual prowess, Boone didn't see the feminine tornado coming. An indomitable half-breed Chicago lawyer surprises Boone by rejecting his advances. Serendipity draws the two on a collision course neither can alter, no matter how hard they try. The two fall down a prairie rabbit hole, twisting and turning through the mystery of why Christine Monroe can't sleep with any man, not even the God of Love himself. Boone has to work hard to score the last trick of his career, changing his life for good and forever. The tale is set in the magical South Dakota Badlands and the Pine Ridge Reservation where loveable and down-to-earth locals, both of this world and beyond, watch the fiasco that is Boone and Christine's relationship unfold. Savor the beauty of the Oglala Lakota culture in this spicy tale of perseverance and a little bit of trickery.
The Right & Left Hands of Love
Will Boone turns thirty and comes into his inheritance. Little does he know the problems it will cause him.
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The way Will and Chris "tied the knot" creates a dilemma. Will thinks she can quit working because of his new-found wealth, but she feels she can't. The two find themselves at an impasse over the conflict when a problem in Texas allows Will to cut and run. It appears he may never come back. For thirty days, the two have no way to communicate while they each endure similar life-threatening situations that force them to re-evaluate the issue. Two nemeses from The Last Solo Roller reappear to wreak havoc. Up in South Dakota, a nasty judge inadvertently offers Chris a solution to her problem with Will's fortune. In Texas, Dixie's widower learns the awful truth about his wife's former lover. Will must solve a mystery to escape Dale's vengeance. The older man unwittingly helps Will figure out how to save his relationship with Chris. The story unfolds on the Proud Bear ranch and in Rapid City as well as Midland, Texas. A ghost from Sonny's past, an Uber-driving conspiracy theorist, and the unexpected cavalry all make for a wild ride of a good read. A suspenseful tale about how divine intervention helps to prove that great minds truly do think alike.
The
Human
Family Is
My Tribe
Helpful spirits may always be found but people make the red road go round.
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While trying to free a Chicago teenager falsely accused of murder, Chris finds herself facing a nasty predicament when she learns the truth about the crime. Meanwhile, Will bumps into the woman to whom he owes his very existence and tries to help her regain her own lost life. Chris defies death to alter an unjustifiable status quo while Will risks his own life to make a necessary change in that of his new friend's. His wife saves a faltering marriage, and he gets a nod of approval from someone special beyond the grave. Supernatural entities are summoned to resolve a double dilemma plaguing the Proud Bear clan. Patrick must prove to Homer and the entire spirit realm that he deserves to be the next tribal healer. A terrible mishap and life-or-death situation offer him the chance to do so. Meanwhile, during a moon-time meant to help Kitty have a successful pregnancy, Chris dreams of the only way for her little sister to finally have a family of her own. Meet a couple new Boones, a seer with a secret, a mysterious college professor, and a raven with low self-esteem. This novel is a thought-provoking tale about revelation, redemption, and liberation.
The Sons &
Daughters
of Life's
Longing
Through both a selfish act of exploitation and a selfless act of humanity, a pair of miracles blesses the Proud Bear clan.
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After Chris gives birth to Hana, all hell breaks loose at the Proud Bear ranch. Will is made acutely aware he could have carelessly fathered children during his career as a prostitute. Little does he know he did in fact make a woman other than Chris pregnant. Eleven years later, a mysterious child shows up at the ranch, testing the cowboy's integrity. Patrick becomes a sought-after tribal healer. Although envious elders try to discredit him, help arrives when Raven's prediction about Sonny comes true. When Will asks Patrick to save a friend's life, God Himself must intervene. A sandwich thief gains a caring friend in Kitty. The pregnant teen finds herself torn between being an unwed mother and going to school. Kitty's generosity and a revelation help the girl decide what to do. Marcie faces an existential crisis after seeing her parents. Not only does she question her marriage, she questions her Lakota roots. A stranger in the moon-time tipi changes her mind. Will has always wondered about his own roots. After he makes peace with the painful fact neither Dale nor George could ever be a dad to him, a prayer is answered. Someone from his past follows the cowboy along an internet trail to the truth about their relationship.
The Well
of Tears & Laughter
Just when you think you're happy enough...
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Will Boone makes a terrible mistake when he presents Chris with an unusual and very astonishing fifth anniversary gift. She's so impressed with his surprise that he suddenly goes from a talented yet ordinary former midnight cowboy to a stud with extraordinary powers. Neither of them is then prepared when Will suddenly goes from "Superman" to a sexless shell of a crowd-pleasing rodeo stuntman after a horrific accident. Chris's unforeseen reaction to its aftermath threatens to tear their marriage apart. Neither Will nor Chris knows his new normal was meant to be, however. Will's daughter Molly's impetuous and dangerous decision to take the matter of her future into her own hands forces him to open up his heart to someone he has been holding out at arm's length for a long time. While Will must reflect on his life and consider accepting a crazy and unexpected challenge in an attempt to create a revised "new normal", an odd stranger with red dreadlocks on a California beach gives Molly a key with which to end her parents' marital meltdown. It takes Molly's novel interpretation of the grief process--helped by some good old-fashioned Greek philosophy--to lead Chris to face her demons and put herself and the cowboy on a new yet preordained path.
