Hidden Treasure

Riley Robinson always tries to clear her inbox before dawn. Between her paralegal job and training for the Bear Lake Classic—a fifty-mile road race around Idaho’s turquoise shores—she’s got two weeks to shave minutes off her personal record and take down her picture-perfect rival.

Then an unleashed golden retriever named Boone sends her bike skidding into the gravel, right at the feet of Oswald Bouchard.

Yes, that Oz Bouchard. The productivity wizard whose bestselling books and life hacks...

I've been brainstorming a short story to offer free to my readers. It will be in the viewpoint of one of the X Marks the Spot treasure hunters. I've always been fascinated by what people have found when they use metal detectors. X Marks the Spot is the fictional YouTube channel of three women who hunt for treasure all over the United States and return to Bear Lake several times in my novels. In May, 2026, two metal-detecting hobbyists found gold bracelets (torcs) in a plowed field in...

Hi, everyone!

I hope you've been enjoying your summer. Have you had a chance to read a good book? I hope to publish two books this year in the Escape to Bear Lake series, Beside the Snowy Shore and Beyond the Snowy Mountains. They'll be ready before Christmas. Part of the story takes place on Santa Catalina Island. Have you ever been there? When I lived in California, I visited Catalina several times. It's a delightful get-away.

The weather in the Bear Lake Valley can't make up its mind. It rained this morning, the sun came out, then it threatened to rain again. Now the sun is shining. I've been working on the next book in the Escape to Bear Lake series today. I plan to publish it this year. The working title is Paw Prints in the Snow. You guessed it, there's a cat in the story. Do you have a cat? I have five outdoor cats. They keep the mice and voles at bay. Voles are smaller than moles. They dig tunnels above...