I’m currently trying to get my first novel published. It’s a YA romantic suspense, called ‘NOA (Not Online Anymore).’ It’s the first book in a series of similar thrillers starring clever, spirited 15-year-old super-sleuth Ramsey Rade.

A little bit about NOA:

Who in this century doesn’t have Internet, television, cell reception, or even a working landline?

Ramsey dreads the summer at her estranged uncle’s dilapidated farmhouse. Uncle Scott lives alone, and never has visitors; so then whose glass does Ramsey find lying in the sink with a smudge of lipstick? And what’s that light flickering in an unoccupied room?

Uncle Scott is not the kind, fun-loving man their mother said he was; he’s bitter, angry, and secretive. His wife died ten years ago, and sure, he’s still grieving, but does he have to act so mean and unfriendly? If only they had some way to contact their mother…

Things get even stickier when Ramsey discovers her dead aunt’s gravestone in the woods. Curious, she researches Aunt Carla’s death, and to her horror she discovers that Uncle Scott mysteriously disappeared afterwards, and the police wanted him for questioning. Could Uncle Scott have killed his own wife? It’s ridiculous, but Ramsey can’t shake off the feeling that Uncle Scott is hiding something. And that he’s not everything he says he is…

What begins as a dull summer in the rural countryside becomes a thrilling, nightmarish mystery that twists and turns as Ramsey, her brother, her best friend Eli, and neighbor Sophie, figure out just what Uncle Scott is hiding - and how to escape before it’s too late.

I’m already plotting out the next two books in my Ramsey Rade series: 2G2BT (Too Good to be True) and  EWG (Evil Wicked Grin). In these books Ramsey continues to unravel all kinds of intriguing mysteries and gets into way too much trouble with her best friend, Eli, to whom she’s passionately loyal. She’s so loyal that she won’t admit – even to herself – that she’s in love with him because, above all, she wants to remain his friend.