Fiction about ambition, secrecy, and the illusion of control.
My stories blend high stakes with emotional depth—from a Southern teenager discovering himself at Columbia University to a pharmaceutical CEO racing to save his wife from a fatal virus.
Playing by the Book
Playing by the Book is an IPPY Award-winning novel about the joy and heartbreak of discovering one’s own truth.
When seventeen-year-old high school newspaper editor Jake Powell leaves his small Alabama town for Columbia University’s summer journalism program, it feels like a dream come true. But his father, a fundamentalist Christian preacher, senses trouble—and he’s rarely wrong.
Up North, Jake must navigate unfamiliar freedoms and uncomfortable truths, starting with his growing feelings for a handsome Jewish classmate named Sam. What he could keep hidden back home now rises to the surface in the Big Apple.
Standing by his side are a sharp-tongued classmate with a Park Avenue attitude and the designer bags to match, a loyal friend from back home who isn’t sure she’s ready to let Jake go, and an outrageously flamboyant aunt determined to help him embrace love—and avoid the heartbreak she knows all too well.
Bloody Hell
Bloody Hell is a morally charged upmarket thriller about ambition, secrecy, and the illusion of control. I am currently seeking representation.
Skyler Longview, CEO of Blackwell Pharmaceuticals, has built his life on mastering outcomes. But when his wife, Mimi, is deliberately infected with a rare, fatal virus to coerce him to find the cure, Skyler faces a crisis that tests his limits.
With less than a year to save her, Skyler launches the largest global drug race in modern history. But the search for a cure spirals into a labyrinth of hidden agendas, government cover-ups, and moral compromise—while Mimi’s body becomes the proving ground for a treatment that may come too late.
Narrated by Skyler’s disillusioned bodyguard—with dry wit and a growing crisis of conscience—Bloody Hell explores how far we’ll go to save the ones we love.
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