Stories that stick with you.
I write about ordinary people caught in the hard parts of history. The things a photograph does not show. The bad handwriting. The stubbornness. The quiet kindness that cost somebody something.
I do not want the shiny version. I want what stays with you.
Completed Manuscripts
Two completed, unpublished novels are seeking traditional representation. Each stands alone. Both begin with one small thing a person cannot leave behind.
Below are the manuscripts currently available for representation.
The House the War Left
The war took his twin. Virginia comes for the family he builds afterward.
In June 1865, Josey Miller comes home to Cumberland County with his twin’s unopened diary and no wish to kill again. The locket he carried through the war leads him to Sarah Kincaid. Together they repair two farms and build a family with Isaac, Martha, and Beth Wilson, newly freed from slavery. A plantation heir calls that household theft. When law, debt, and terror close around them, Josey must decide what revenge is allowed to cost.
Adult historical fiction with commercial suspense. 93,000 words. Complete and unpublished. Seeking representation. Inspired by my grandmother’s story of the brother who went to war and never came home, and by the small objects people carry when history takes everything else.
One Letter Off
Randell Gregg is dead. Randall Gregg is not. At least not yet.
Randall “Randy” Gregg thinks the call from a Colorado coroner is a clerical mistake. The dead man is Randell Gregg, and Randy is listed as his emergency contact. Then a hunting waiver changes itself. A road called Mercy Hill appears where none should. County records begin insisting the wrong name is right. With Michele beside him, Randy follows the error into a system that turns paperwork, guilt, and silence into consent, and every signature gives it another way to claim him.
Supernatural procedural horror. 76,000 words. Complete and unpublished. Seeking representation.
Inspired by one wrong letter in a familiar name, and the question of what happens when a mistake refuses to stay small.