At sixteen years of age, Brooks sold her first article to a national magazine for $4.00. Since then she sold five 500+ articles, mostly to trade journals and several national magazines such as Goodhousekeeping.

Her first novel, Mountain Shadows, came out in 2003 and was required reading in a number of Adirondack high schools.

The first of the Ike Cherny Mystery Trilogy, Fame & Deceit was published in 2010. Blood Hoax followed in 2016. Book 3 of the trilogy, Ransoming VIctory was published in 2016.

Brooks lives on an expanisve horse farm in Connecticut where she has raised, trained and competed with Morgan Horses since 1973