I’m a native Californian, born in Inglewood, California. My education in writing began as a teenager living as a Navy brat in Japan where a lifelong habit of correspondence was ingrained.  I chose hitchhiking to India over going to college. Ten months of traveling—where I kept a fastidious journal (that was lost!)—solidified my love of observation, reading, and writing.
I returned to the States at age 21, having been gone for six years. In 1989, I got married and moved from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara where I was accepted to the University of California in Santa Barbara. When an English composition class rekindled my desire to write, I dropped out to write a novel. It was an early version of Karma. The manuscript garnered considerable attention both in the publishing world and in Hollywood but the public wasn’t ready for a story on sex trafficking.
My interest in health and cooking led me to team up with several doctors to write books on diet, adrenal burnout, and Chinese medicine, culminating in my sole authored book Death by Supermarket: The Fattening, Dumbing Down, and Poisoning of America. My health books have sold over 650,000 copies, and I’ve established a voice in the real food movement, something that I’m proud of, as I love helping people be healthier.
Throughout my nonfiction career I never forgot the story about sexual slavery and continued to read and research the subject, which I consider one of the most important social problems in the world today. The finished novel, Karma, is the product of my research into the subjects of sexual slavery, Hinduism, and the true meaning of karma.
Besides writing, my interests include Buddhist Metta meditation, reading, piano, yoga, hiking, cooking, entertaining, traveling, sewing, knitting, crocheting, interior design, and our whippets Charlotte Brontë and India. I live with my husband, John Davis, in an 1868 row house in the historic South End of Boston, Massachusetts.