The DNA Series

The Dr. Naomi Alexander Series.

Beautiful people, ugly problems. Therapy’s just the beginning.

Like Sweet Buttermilk

Marriage counseling meets murder suspense. Like Sweet Buttermilk, a story of betrayal, deception, and love, explores the emotional boundaries within what appears an ordinary marital relationship.

Rick Phillips is leading a comfortable home life with his wife, Viv, and their young daughter. But Viv reveals she’s seeing someone else, and Rick’s determination to make things right again leads him down a disastrous path—one that changes him.

Through therapy with psychiatrist, Dr. Naomi Alexander, Rick and Viv begin salvaging their marriage, finding renewed passion for each other. Naomi, however, knows everything is not as lovely as it appears. Rick’s irrational devotion to family and recent changes in personality, have Naomi worried Viv may be in danger—from the one person she trusts most. The no-nonsense psychiatrist (with her own secrets) becomes the reluctant semi-detective…

Obscure Boundaries

Grief counseling meets ghostly intrigue. Obscure Boundaries, a tale of grief, sorrow, and the power of rebounding hope, tells the story of a successful artist who remarries after the death of his first wife.

Julia Winthrop has died, leaving her husband, Jeff, and their two children, Mallory and Todd, to carry on without her. When Jeff remarries, the Winthrops make a go at a new life with Ruth, but it requires help from a familiar family therapist.

In their sessions with Dr. Alexander, the Winthrops work through their problems. But from her place in her yellow counsel chair, Naomi knows something is off between Ruth and the Winthrop children. Something off…and sinister. She needs to get Jeff better, and soon, but Naomi must also deal with something beyond her purview: Jeff believes Julia is still with them.

Broken Benevolence

Trauma counseling meets treachery and deceit. Broken Benevolence tells a suspenseful story of resilience in the face of mounting adversity. In book three, Dr. Naomi Alexander provides trauma counseling to crime victim, Cecily Brooks. Sessions reveal, however, that it’s Cecily’s marriage to Oscar requiring immediate attention—because the trauma in Cecily’s life begins there…

Victim of a crime years ago, a PTSD attack finds Cecily in counseling once again. Through therapy with Dr. Alexander, Oscar and Cecily address many factors affecting Cecily’s troubles. Oscar, however, proves a challenge every step of the way, but that’s okay; Dr. Alexander thrives on challenges.

Broken and full of shame and despair, Cecily feels she’s heard it all in therapy before. But this time, the chair is yellow—and the results will be different. Naomi pulls few punches as Cecily’s sessions are exercises in pain and confusion and regret and…revelation.