Santa Fe attorney Danny Hanrahan loves life in his adopted hometown.  He’s got good friends, a great job, and a gorgeous home. The only thing he’s missing is someone with whom to share it all, but when his trusty assistant Monica sets him up with her sexy son Ashok, Danny quickly considers the “boyfriend” box checked, too.

Ashok is fit, charming, and dynamite in the sack; falling in love with him is a piece of cake.  Embracing Ashok’s alter ego, celebrated drag diva Raima Reason, proves to be more of a challenge.  Danny divorced his wife for a reason, and it wasn’t so he could go out and find someone who takes even longer than she did to put on makeup. When Raima’s career looks set to take off, Danny has to decide if he’s along for the ride, or if a boyfriend who’s sometimes a girl is more than he can handle.

Inspired by recent real-life events — namely my husband waking up one morning and out of nowhere declaring himself a drag queen — Love Has Reasons is available in eBook and paperback from JMS Books and Amazon.com.

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Fox McHardy leads a charmed life. Puget Sound penthouse, gorgeous boyfriend, jet-setting job—everything he’s ever wanted, he’s gotten, including the heck out of the small Iowa town he grew up in.  Even the trip he takes to Miami to surprise his boyfriend Jeremy is something of a long-shot wish fulfilled.  Until he arrives in South Florida.  Once things start to unravel, they do so with alarming speed, and he finds himself riding shotgun in a rented convertible with his new worst enemy faster than you can say “I want my old life back.”

During an unscheduled stop on the cross-country Road Trip From Hell, Fox passes up a perfectly good opportunity to keep his mouth shut and finds himself planning the town’s first legal gay wedding—his own, to a man he’s pretty sure he should hate.  But someone needs to set a positive example for the queer and questioning youth in this corner of Middle America, and, after creatively arranging certain of the facts of his life more attractively, he is proud to offer himself up as a role model.  Small Town U.S.A. steps up; the grooms are widely celebrated, and generous offers of food, flowers, and picture-perfect venues pour in.  The only real challenge will be keeping the lies straight and the truth under wraps until they can get out of town.

For all that he’s self-centered and something of a slow learner, Fox is one of my favorite protagonists.  Crazy Like Fox is the story of his long journey Home, which he finds in the one place he was sure he hadn’t left it.  In the words of one reviewer, “You learn a lot about conceit, confidence, deceit and true love.  I highly recommend this if you like a heartfelt romance, twists and turns, fate and some fairly hot mansex.”  And who doesn’t love that?

Crazy Like Fox is available in eBook and paperback from JMS Books and Amazon.com.

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Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney—these exciting cities are standard fare in the life of flight attendant Todd Eisenbraun, and he chases a romance with sexy-but-straight Josh through them all.  Closer to home, a new neighbor in his San Francisco apartment building has a huge crush on Todd.  His friends—Katie, a flight attendant-turned-small appliance repairwoman, and Marzipan Q. Thespian, a man-dangling local philanthropist—think Todd should at least give Chris a shot.  Sure, he’s fat, but he’s also handsome, a hilarious playwright, and a great cook—what’s not to love?  They quickly become friends, but Todd’s idea of the perfect man is skinny and straight, and Chris is decidedly neither.  Josh may have a fiancée and a teenaged son, but Todd just knows he’s “the One.”

But if Josh is straight, the road to love is not; Todd is jostled by internalized homophobia, body image issues, exotic locales, the glamorous world of sewing machine repair, and a community theater musical salute to the life of Judy Garland before he arrives at the realization that he’s been looking way too hard for something he may already have.

My debut novel, Kiss Me, Straight is Available in eBook and paperback at JMS Books and on Amazon.com!