Sanctuary is the first of three novels about what happens to a contemporary San Francisco Bay Area family, when a baby gargoyle is blown onto their deck one dark and rainy night. Just as no good deed goes unpunished, the family is thrown into chaos when the human mother rescues the fallen baby and unwittingly returns it to its rightful mother. Universal laws are broken and the human family suffers for the act. One by one the teenage children follow their mother into the strange parallel universe existing around them, finding themselves changed one into a fairy, and the other a gargoyle. They...

Mad Lavender is Book Two in the Sanctuary series which follows the now grieving family as they begin to search the fantasy realm for their lost mother. They use the best of what makes them human- persistence, guile and love along with a heavy dose of sarcasm to find their way into the elf world. They learn more than they had ever wanted about elves and the life cycles of dragons. This includes how very much dragons would love to return to the good old days when eating people was perfectly acceptable. Chaos, mayhem and war are the inevitable result. We are talking about teenagers aren't we?...