It was the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains and tranquil waters of Lake Lanier that inspired her writing in her first three books. She focused on each decade’s societal limitations on contemporary women’s lives and showed how they overcame challenges and thrived.

Book four, Illusion of Consent, is the first stand-alone book in the Illusion Trilogy.

Illusion of Consent-The Way Ahead identifies the unsettling issue of sexual harassment in the workplace and women’s silence permitting men to feel insulated from repercussions. Liz Murphy Simmons learned how powerful men used women during her college years but was confounded that women would allow that power in their workplace. She vowed to change that attitude and fought her entire career to educate men and women that change was needed. She makes progress until she is accused of murdering a co-worker and leans on God, her husband and daughter for strength. Her commitment to women is recognized and she develops a harassment free atmosphere of fairness in the company.

Illusion of Control -The Way Back, the second stand-alone book in the Trilogy, highlights the myth that we are in complete control of our lives and, if we do all the right things, we will succeed. Women have typically worked alongside men for far less pay.  Ashleigh Justice, a bright young woman achieves her dream of becoming an architect only to find she must constantly prove to the men in her company along with male clients that she is more than capable of handling high stress projects.  After a sexual assault, she makes the decision to quit her job and work for women’s rights in the state legislature. But her love of architecture reconnects her with her former supportive coworker in a new job where she sees that some men appreciate smart, talented women.

Illusion of Commitment- The Way of Love, the third stand-alone book, will be released in 2026 and focuses on what commitment means using the four kinds of love and how we choose to be part of one or all of them. Does love mean commitment? Marley Feldman seemed to have the magic formula for success, in real estate, estate sales and her family. But the years wear on a marriage and after her daughter graduates from college and moves to Atlanta, she begins to question what is right for her and her marriage. Her estate sale business introduces her to four families who need Marley’s help with Estate and family home sales because of parents’ deaths. As she works with each family, she sees the pain, hurt and loss they feel and how the deaths affect them. She imagines her family in their situations as she struggles to sleep at night worrying how her marriage will survive the trials that await them.