The Women Who Refused to Be Invisible

On legacy, inheritance, and the stories we carry forward

There are seasons in the writing life when everything feels comfortable and aligned, and then then there are seasons when a storm kicks up, and you have to batten down the hatches and hang on for dear life!

This past year has been very much the latter for me.

What began as a sweet, contemporary romance series set in a small mountain town slowly — and insistently — became something very different. Something deeper and more layered, with a story that stretched backward in time as much as it moved forward.

And at the center of it all were a handful of incredible women.

The Present-Day Women of Davis Crest

The modern day timeline of my new Davis Crest trilogy focuses on the lives of three women who grew up together. Three lives shaped by the same town — and by very different longings.

Rebecca - A single mother, and Davis Crest's coffee shop owner, who rebuilt her life after heartbreak. She is steady and loyal, the kind of woman others lean on without realizing how much weight she carries herself. When her grandfather leaves her an old journal, the past begins to speak — and it refuses to stay quiet.

Megan - A third-grade teacher with a warm smile and a restless heart. She loves her students. She loves her town. And yet, something inside her keeps whispering that there might be more — not elsewhere, necessarily, but more truth, and in book two of the Davis Crest trilogy she may just find what she's been looking for.

Katherine - A bookshop owner, a lover of fantasy, and the keeper of family secrets she never asked for. Calm on the surface, turbulent underneath. Her story is about inheritance — not just of objects or land, but of choices, and obligations.

These women have been inseparable since childhood, and their lives are about to change forever.

The Women Who Built the Town

Long before Davis Crest was the sleepy little tourist town it is today, four women arrived with a determination not just to survive, but to thrive.

Amelia Davis - A mother who came to California not in search of gold, but because she had no other choice. Intelligent, stubborn, and fiercely protective of her daughters, she understood early that the world would not make space for them unless she carved it out herself.

Clara - The eldest. Practical, and quietly rebellious. A woman who sees what needs to be done and does it, even at the expense of her own happiness.

Susan - Loyal, soulful, and braver than she realizes. The kind of woman others tend to underestimate — which will prove to be a grave mistake.

Mary - The youngest. A dreamer with a spine of steel. Her journal becomes the thread that stitches past and present together — a reminder that stories don’t disappear — they merely wait for someone to listen.

These women built a life, and a legacy, in the mountains, even as the world tried to render them invisible. And through Mary’s journal, their story begins to intertwine with Rebecca’s, Megan’s, and Katherine’s in ways none of them could have imagined.

Come with me to Davis Crest

I’ll share more soon — fragments from the journal, glimpses of 1850s California, and the moment when both timelines shift irrevocably.

But for now, this felt like the right place to pause.

Because this story isn’t just about romance or history, it’s about what women carry, what they inherit, and what finally gets spoken when the time is right.

Thank you for letting me bring you along for this journey. It means more than I can say.

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