Email: cara@caralyle.net  

  This is Cara enjoying one of her favorite places: Los Boliches, a resort town in southern Spain. This particular spot is located about 100 ft from a cafe and another 50 ft from a bookstore. 

    And this is what the country looks like where she lives. Unusual, isn’t it? It’s called the Palouse, a vast area of rolling wheat, lentils, and other legumes. The entire area is called the Inland Empire (of the Pacific Northwest). Spokane sits at the northern edge of the Palouse. Clarkston sits near its southern limit.

Cara is married to a retired military officer. She raised two boys. She worked and then didn't. She and her husband rebuilt a boat in Ireland then knocked themselves out sailing it around Europe and the Caribbean.

But always, she tells me, she had a story brewing at the back of her head. The settings looked a lot like where she happened to be living. 

    Her first book, Grey Heart, was previously published as Heart on Hold by Cerridwen Press, an imprint of Jasmine-Jade.

   The Olympic National Forest.

Grey Heart

Ian Loudoun ponders two questions: who attacked Gwen Burrie and left her for dead in the middle of the Olympic National Forest;  and when will she say yes to his repeated proposal of marriage?

Until Ian found her in the forest unconscious, he had been a free man. But one look at her convinced him she was a witch; another look and that told himself he would be a fool to walk away.

As for Gwen?  She is not what she seems. You see, she’s been caught on closed circuit TV conjuring things out of thin air.  Like Dundee Cake and diamond dust. Besides, her life has taught her to rely on no one but herself.

Fate gives her no choice when a call from her Scottish solicitor sends her back to Aberdeen, forcing her to face her past: a mother who’d walked out of her life, a grandfather she cannot remember, and an uncle suspected of murder.

email: cara@caralyle.net