2014 #1 Adult Fiction Winner, North Texas Book Festival Award (tied with The Art of Forgetting by Dr. Peter Palmeiri).
2013 Best Indie Book Awards/Romance, Kindle Book Review
2012 Gold Medal Winner/Military Romance, Military Writers Society of America.
2012 Silver Medal Winner/Inspirational and Healing Fiction from the Stars and Flags Book Awards.
Amazon's #1 Top Rated War Fiction, July 2012-May 2013
This inspirational love story and military mystery appeals to women and men who require entertainment and substance in their leisure reading. Emotionally scarred years after her husband died in a fiery Special Operations helicopter crash, Emily Ann Meade, is having a near-life-experience. She clings to her vow never to get involved with another man committed to a dangerous profession ... until she meets F-16 pilot, Ted Foley, in Hawaii. Although they are mutually attracted, the charismatic widower's fighter wing recently lost two pilots in unexplained air crashes. Emily lowers her barriers and discovers Ted's greatest virtue: He makes the ordinary feel sacred. Another crash reignites her fears, and the fragile relationship shatters. Unless Emily finds a path through her emotional minefields, she risks never discovering she is rejecting the only type of man to whom she is genuinely attracted, a man who leads by example and from the front. And that man's life could be in danger! As did Steel Magnolias and Top Gun, Your Gift to Me celebrates the human spirit's capacity to triumph over tragedy.