 They had two sons, Sean and Adam; four grandchildren, Daryl, Michael, Tara and Ryan; and two great grandchildren, Aireanna and Elizabeth.The marriage took place in Grimsby, Ontario, where she was a housewife, who read "The Wolf and the Dove" by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, and decided to start to write.She sold her first novel "The Irish Gypsy" in 1982 to Avon Books.