About
I'm an internationally recognized communications professional. My career has spanned the spectrum from community relations in Chicago to US and world governments’ public communications on nuclear power. I've been an expert and lecturer with the International Atomic Energy Agency for over a decade, a spokesperson for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and a press officer for the Chicago Commission on Human Relations, the City's civil rights department. After traveling the world and working in sixteen countries, I decided it was time to seriously pursue my love of writing. I want to share the intrigue and excitement of the world I've experienced. My life has shaped me into a passionate believer that it is in our differences that we find life’s richness.
THE CHILD RIDDLER, my debut action thriller, has received 15 award recognitions, including the 2025 NYC Big Book Award; 2023 Gold Medal from Florida Authors and Publishers Association; 2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion; and a 2023 American Fiction Award.
I'm in the process of completing my second book, THE INVISIBLE PREDATOR. The first fifty pages of the unpublished manuscript won two Claymore Awards at the 2025 International Killer Nashville Writers' Conference: 1st Runner-up for Best Manuscript and Best Action Adventure.
Featured Work
The Child Riddler
The Child Riddler is a multi-award winning action thriller: Despite the angry scars she carries from her childhood training, Zoe Lorel has reached a good place in her life. She has her dream job as an elite operative in an international spy agency and she’s found her one true love. Her world is mostly perfect—until she is sent to abduct a nine-year-old girl.
The girl is the only one who knows the riddle that holds the code to unleash the most lethal weapon on earth—the first ever “invisibility” nanoweapon, a cloaking spider bot. But Zoe’s agency isn’t the only one after the child. And when enemies reveal the invisibility weapon’s existence to underground arms dealers, every government and terrorist organization in the world want to find that little girl.
Zoe races to save not only the child she has grown to care about, but also herself. The agency prescribed pills—the ones that transform her into the icy killer she must become to survive—are beginning to threaten her engagement to the one person who brings her happiness. Can she protect the young girl and still protect the one thing she cares more about than anything else?
Other Works
Awards and Recognition
- 2025 NYC Big Book Award-Action Adventure
- 2023 Gold Medal from Florida Authors and Publishers Association-Thriller
- 2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion-Best Action Adventure
- 2023 American Fiction Award-Techno Thriller
- 2023 International Firebird Award-Espionage Thriller
- 2023 International Firebird Award-Techno Thriller
- Finalist-2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion-Best Thriller
- Finalist-2023 American Fiction Award-Romantic Suspense
- 2022 Bestthrillers.com Book Awards-Romantic Suspense
- Short Listed-2025 Global Thriller Book Awards, Chanticleer Book Awards
- THE INVISIBLE PREDATOR-1st Runner Up for Best Unpublished Manuscript-2025 Killer Nashville Claymore Award
- THE INVISIBLE PREDATOR- 2025 Best Action Adventure Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Best First Fifty Pages of Unpublished Manuscript
