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A recipe for applesauce spice cake and maple buttercream frosting

Happy autumn! Here’s one of my favorite cake recipes, a real indulgence and a favorite as the leaves turn color and the temperatures cool. I love it with maple buttercream frosting, recipe below. Soooo good. I try to use my own homemade applesauce. There’s nothing quite like writing away with applesauce bubbling on the stove…

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STONEBROOK COTTAGE now in audio!

I’m thrilled to announce that the audio edition of Stonebrook Cottage is now available on Audible and other major platforms! This story features Texas is close to my heart—it can be read as a standalone novel but is #3 in my New York Times bestselling Carriage House romantic suspense series: The Carriage House, The Cabin, Stonebrook Cottage, The Harbor. …

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A spring hike in Woodstock VT

We live on the doorstep of beautiful Woodstock, Vermont. Here are photos from our recent hike up Mt. Tom via the Faulkner Trail and then down via the Billings and Precipice Trails. It had rained hard the day before, making for some soggy sections, but what a great day to get out in nature as…

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THE CABIN now in audio!

The Cabin, one of my most popular romantic suspense novels, is now available in audio for the first time! Many thanks to Tantor Media, and to narrator Marguerite Gavin. I’m excited and I know many of my audiobook readers are, too, because they’ve been asking for this to happen. Here’s a peek at the story:…

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British crime fiction from book to screen

The first time I binge-watched a television series was on a long flight from Dublin to Boston. I immersed myself in multiple episodes of the often grim but always gripping British series “Spooks”—“MI-5” in the U.S. with its dark world of conflicted agents and deadly plots. Since then, I’ve binge-watched a wide range of British…

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