Books

EARNED A BOOKY AWARD FOR TENSEST THRILLER and ACCI Literary Excellence Award for Best Mystery/Thriller

"What if a quiet getaway turned into a fight against a predator hiding in the shadows of the redwoods?"

The Girl in the Redwoods: A Rose and Clive Search & Rescue Thriller

Rose Clarke and her search-and-rescue dog, Clive, came to Crescent City...

He went into a burning warehouse to rescue a child. The door he kicked open led to another world.
FBI agent and former Marine Mason Marsh is days from retirement when his final mission takes him into a suspected child-trafficking operation in Hawaii. Ordered to retreat as flames consume the building, Mason hears a young boy crying and refuses to...

In the Marked for Reclamation, nothing is truly broken. Just abandoned.

Sixteen-year-old Trevino “Tre” Heath survives by repairing what everyone else throws away.

In a world where megacorporations own nearly every piece of advanced technology, Tre has a gift that could get him arrested. He can take discarded machines apart, rebuild them, and...

What if you could live in paradise for free?

The only catch is that you can’t leave for five years.

Every five years, Sand Dollar Cove returns to our world for exactly ten days.

For the islanders, those ten days mean everything.

Ships bring medicine, food, machinery, books, and everything the community will need until the next return. Families wait...

EARNED A ACCI FICTION-LITERARY AWARD AND A BOOKY AWARD FOR MOST HONEST GRIEF

5-Star Editorial Review from Reader Views

A veteran reborn. A dragon queen waiting. A world that needs riders again.

She never expected to become a Dragon Rider. But in Jubrozan, leadership isn't given - it's survived. When ancient forces rise, she must choose between...

Earned a Booky Award for Best Detective Procedural

In Clear Creek, Indiana, basketball is more than a sport. It is history, pride, and the dream that holds the town together.

Johnny Sinclair made that dream real.

Raised in Clear Creek, Johnny rose from a small high school gym to college basketball and the professional leagues. Yet he never forgot...

EARNED A BOOKY AWARD FOR BEST ALTERNATE HISTORY

The sky turned yellow. Before sunset, the world they knew was gone.

Callie is taking her ten-year-old daughter, Lucy, to a concert near San Diego when explosions tear across the horizon.

Sickly yellow clouds spread above the city, carrying chemicals capable of killing anyone caught outside.

Callie’s...

The Story Continues

The poisoned sky was only the beginning. Now America is fighting back.

America was poisoned. It was invaded. But it was not defeated.

Coordinated chemical and conventional attacks have shattered the United States. Chinese forces seize military installations, cities, and vital food-producing regions while survivors are left...

EARNED A BOOKY AWARD FOR BEST COMP-TITLE FIT

For sixteen years, Katherine Hollsworth knew she didn't belong. She just never imagined how right she was.

Raised by a family that barely notices her, sixteen-year-old Katherine finds freedom in the woods surrounding her Missouri home. Then one night, everything changes. Pain tears through her body,...

They sent four soldiers into an ambush. Only one survived, and someone inside the government wants him dead.

Sergeant John Riley wakes in a military hospital with an amputated foot, three dead teammates, and fragments of a conspiracy he was never meant to uncover. When strangers try to drug him into silence, John lets the Army believe he died and...

EARNED A ACCI FICTION LITERARY AWARD AND A BOOKY AWARD FOR MOST VIVID PLACE

Where the redwoods hide hard truths, one town must decide what justice really means.

Cree Wilson returns to Sekoia as a wolf shifter, former Navy investigator, and newly hired deputy, hoping for a quieter life beneath the redwoods. Instead, she finds signs that someone is...

EARNED A BOOKY AWARD FOR MOST BELIEVABLE FUTURE

Sekoia Shifters: The Redwoods Remember
The redwoods have kept their secrets for generations.

When Deputy Cree Wilson finds a Council notice pinned to the station corkboard, it should be simple: locate Elara Falkenberg, an eighteen-year-old dragon shifter labeled as an impulsive runaway, and report her...

EARNED BOOKY AWARD FOR MOST WITTY DIALOGUE

A boy genius built the box. His family turned it on. Now the only way forward is through another world.

One invention was supposed to protect them. Instead, it opened the way to another world.

Cage Withers has always been different. Brilliant, curious, and far too young to carry the weight of the secrets...

EARNED A BOOKY AWARD FOR MOST RELENTLESS THRILLER

A murdered hacker. A hidden conspiracy. A plan designed to destroy America from within.

Former Army intelligence officer Langlee Trahen knows danger when she sees it. When her childhood friend Bruce Rezier secretly hands her classified files exposing an operation called Foley’s Bridge, he warns her...

The Road to Castle Wyegates
Book One of The Howloifrea Chronicles

Kelisa always knew the day would come when she would have to protect her younger brother. She never expected it to arrive so soon.

After the sudden death of their grandfather, Kelisa and seven-year-old Tif are driven from the isolated forest home where they were raised. Their parents...

Book Two of The Howloifrea Chronicles

The Lost Tarktos of Howloifrea

The voices beneath the snow are running out of air.

Kelisa and her younger brother, Tif, finally found a home at Castle Wyegate, where humans, Kahti, and the powerful winged Tarktos are learning to stand as equals.

Then frost spreads across an ancient map.

Trapped voices call Tif’s...

They trained for years to build humanity’s first settlement on another world. They never imagined waking to a world that no longer belonged to humanity.

Captain Ta’lor Davidson and the crew of Calypso earned the right to go first. Their mission is simple: enter cryosleep, rendezvous with the massive transport Thor, cross the stars, and wake on...

She has dreamed of the attic door since childhood. There is only one problem. She has never been inside the house.

At fifty-seven, award-winning wildlife photographer Corii Wolf has spent most of her adult life traveling the world and avoiding the small Illinois town where she grew up.

Then her beloved older brother, Eddie, dies.

Corii returns home...

Rose and Clive are back.

After the events in the redwoods, search-and-rescue handler Rose Clarke is trying to rebuild something close to normal. Indiana brings school visits, training sessions, family routines, and ordinary SAR calls that end with tired hikers, muddy shoes, and grateful reunions.

Then Turkey Run State Park calls.

A child has...

Beneath the Kentucky Hills
A Rose and Clive Search & Rescue Thriller: Book 3

A year after Rose Clarke and Clive faced danger in Indiana, life has finally settled into something close to normal. The children are growing, the farm feels steadier, and Rose has expanded her search-and-rescue skills with specialized cave training she hopes she will...