Kathryn Calder is dedicated to her NY city career until an unexpected assisgnment to Jamaica changes the path of her life. From the moment she arrives on the exotic island, she is haunted by odd memories from a distant past. Is Flynt Kincade, the stranger she meets in an art gallery, part of that past? Kathryn senses he is, especially when dreams connecting her with Flynt grow more vivid. A visit to Rose Hall Great Plantation draws Kathryn into a scene from long ago when evil reigned in Jamaica and the white witch of Rose Hall was a part of the danger. Can a love affair from old Jamaica reach across forever and bring Kathryn and Flynt together?
A native of Virginia, I have always loved to travel, especially to the Caribbean, Hawaii, Europe, Florida Keys, and to Sedona, Arizona where my novel, Eagle Rising is set. Writing about places I know is important to me. On our first trip to Jamaica, I knew I had to write a book set there, so Hearts Across Forever was born. Other exciting destinations turned into book settings were Antigua (Secrets by the Sea), Trinidad (Mistaken Identity) and the Bahamas. We've had some traumatic adventures in Guadaloupe that may one day turn into a book.
Not only do I love to write and take photographs to go with my stories, but I'm also an artist. When we visited the Mayan ruins at Palenque and at Chichen Itza, I was so amazed and awed that I returned home and created a series of huge Mayan ruins acrylic paintings. Several are four by six feet in size and require large walls for exhibitions.
Artists Thomas Thorne and Carl Roseburg at the College of William and Mary were major contributors to my background in painting and sculpture. Then I went full time for two years to Virginia Commonwealth University where I studied under a faculty of gifted artists and earned my MFA in painting in 1980.
I'm teaching art part-time in an elementary school, writing freelance for a newspaper and completing my next novel, Mistaken Identity. My husband is my high school sweetheart who has always been supportive of my work, no matter in what direction I've gone.
