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I write contemporary adult and YA fiction that explores real life in all its complexity—always with a generous helping of humor. Praised by Library Journal for writing with “intelligence and subtlety,” my stories capture the authentic, dramatic, and often laugh-out-loud dynamics of family, relationships, and human connection. My debut novel, Night Diving, was recognized with the ForeWord Magazine Silver Award.
My motto is: If you’re not clutching that tissue box, busting out laughing, and humming “Aww!”, I haven’t done my job.
An Italian-American New York kid living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I’m an unapologetic “glass-half-full” gal who loves sharp banter, romantic slow burns, long rambling walks, coffee (the elixir of life!), and love stories that also deeply celebrate friendships and family. Whether writing women’s fiction, romance, or YA, I’m drawn to stories where ordinary people discover extraordinary joy in everyday life.
I have an exciting summer ahead, starting with the release of my women’s fiction novel, Mermaid, coming this July 2026. That will be followed by my YA romance, Spinning Into Gold, on Sept. 8, and the first book in my Adult Romance series later this year. When I’m not writing, you can usually find me on the hunt for my next shortcut life hack, walking along the bay, noticing and sharing those everyday shots of joy, or wrestling—or dancing?—please let it be dancing!—with my latest manuscript.
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Spinning Into Gold is coming on Sept. 8!
Anna Kramer always has a plan, and college is no exception.
She’s spent the last four years chasing one dream: get into an Ivy League school, become an Alzheimer’s researcher, and make her late grandfather proud.
She’s sacrificed sleep. Friends. Fun. A love life. Basically her entire high school experience.
Then…
Poof!
Every Ivy League school rejects her.
With her carefully mapped-out future suddenly unraveling, Anna begins to question everything she thought she wanted.
Enter Finn—the charming, irreverent son of her college coach, who clearly finds Anna’s obsession with planning equal parts baffling and entertaining. He’s as infuriatingly Team Serendipity as Anna is Team Color-Coded Checklists.
Except…this boy and his impromptu late-night taco truck runs are somehow starting to feel…fun? More than fun?
Maybe he’s onto something.
Falling for Finn definitely wasn’t on the map. So why is it suddenly the one detour she’s tempted to take?
But when a heartbreaking loss changes everything, Anna and Finn must decide whether they’re brave enough to let go of the futures they’d envisioned…and reach for the ones they never imagined.
Filled with laugh-out-loud banter, unforgettable friendships, swoony romance, and hard-won hope, Spinning Into Gold is a heartfelt love story of unimagined paths—and discovering that sometimes the best dreams are the ones you never saw coming.
Mermaid is Available Now!
They were the girls who didn’t drown.
In 1983, seven-year-old May and her older sister, Kate, sat in the back of their mother’s car watching the murky churn and roil of the San Francisco Bay. And then they were in its freezing depths. They were the “poor motherless girls” who made it—swimming up and out of the water to become survivors, forever defined by their mother’s inconceivable act.
And as they grow, the ripples of that day become a tide. May is a woman quietly haunted, clinging to a life of safe, solid ground. Kate has become a storm—volatile, self-destructive, and then…missing.
As May searches for her sister, she must confront the wreckage of their shared childhood and the hidden truth of her mother’s final act. Navigating the panic of Kate’s disappearance, May finds an unexpected anchor when Buddy—her high school sweetheart—returns to town years after a severe firefighting injury shattered his identity and their engagement. As they tentatively path a way back to one another, can a second-chance romance bloom between them?
Lyrical, raw, joyfully wry, and achingly sad, Mermaid explores the resilience of the sisterly bond, what it means to decide to live, and the courage it takes to forgive those who could not stay.