My two most recent books, Letters from Shadow Oaks and A Carousel for Shade Tree, are both contemporary fictions. They don’t include any magic or fantasy elements. Both books were inspired by actual situations I’ve encountered. I enjoy writing and reading fantasy, but when a real-world opportunity presents itself for storytelling, I can’t resist writing it.

Tell me about your books The Transcendent Series is about a girl (woman really, she’s 18/19 in the first book) who randomly, and rather inconveniently, body jumps into her past lives. The first book in the series, Transcendent, came out July 1st this year! It contains a passionately fated but “doomed” love story, secret societies, real friendships, university settings, intrigue and ...

Tell me about your book The Boy with the Heart of Sea Glass is boy meets boy, but it’s much more than that. It’s about the healing power of love and found family. And how the relationships we choose, and those we don’t, impact us.

Since I last interviewed you, The Maddox Verdict has gone out into the world. How does it feel to have written a whole series? Lily, I don’t know yet. When I started all this almost ten years ago, I had no intention of writing a series. I wrote Adam’s Witness to basically save my sanity. Then people asked, “When is the next book coming out?” And I said, “Sorry . . . what?” Did I have another book in me? Well, I decided to give it a go. I suppose after the second one, I had be