Path of Dreams received Honorable Mention in the 2002 Annual Utah Original Writing Competition, novel category. With elements of magical realism and wry humor, this contemporary romance features a clash of LDS and Japanese-American cultures.

Fujiwara Ryo has an offer she can't refuse: a marriage proposal from her archenemy. As the shogun's royal prisoner, she'd be guaranteed a comfortable life in a gilded cage. But Ryo isn't the kind of girl to take the easy way out. So refuse it she does. And now a failed revolt against the Ashikaga shogunate has left her with a price on her head and her spurned fiance hot on her heels. Ryo escapes with Sen, her loyal lady-in-waiting, to sacred Mt. Koya. There, Sen's uncle summons the mighty Kala Sarpa. If all goes as planned, the "Serpent of Time" will transport Ryo far out of the shogun's...

Jane Austen's "Persuasion" has the reader rooting for the protagonists to rekindle their estranged affections. But what of the novel's nemeses? In the end, the wily and impious Mr. Elliot casts aside his carefully groomed reputation and persuades the infamous Mrs. Clay to become his mistress. But every persuader needs a persuadable partner, and Mrs. Clay is no ingenue; she'd send a Willoughby or a Wickham packing. Though no less calculating than those romantic villains, Penelope Clay and William Elliot discover in each other the kind of kindred spirits they fail to find among the titled...