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Why I write these
It was never my intention to become the greatest writer to ever live. I believe that title is already taken, and honestly, I could never be whatever that is supposed to mean. What I do want is much simpler: to tell the stories that have lived inside me for as long as I can remember.
My stories may be fiction, but there is always something human buried inside them. Fear. Love. Shame. Hope. Grief. Desire. Survival. The things we hide. The things we carry. The things we finally decide to face.
At the heart of my work is a simple belief: people deserve to live as themselves. Fully. Honestly. Without apology. I write for the people who have been told they are too different, too much, too strange, too emotional, too broken, or too hard to understand.
Be yourself. Be you. That is where the real story begins.
A novel · Bernard County
The Listening Dark
Hiller's Crest looks like every other neighborhood in Bernard County. Quiet streets. Familiar neighbors. Then Jimmy Sean Walker is struck down in the street in what looks like a senseless accident. It is the first death. It will not be the last.
One by one, the people of Hiller's Crest are taken, and each death is stranger than the one before it. The sheriff's department calls it tragedy. The neighbors call it coincidence. Noah Lane is not so sure either word fits.
Noah's mother died when he was young, and she left him more than grief. She left him fragments, half understood warnings, and questions he never had the chance to ask. Then Riley moves in next door, and Noah finds himself caring about someone enough to be afraid for them, which is its own kind of danger in a place like this.
As the deaths mount and the explanations run out, Noah is forced to face what has been waiting underneath Hiller's Crest all along. Something old. Something hungry. Something that has been listening a lot longer than anyone realized.
A horror novel about a force that kills and the love that builds during the chase.
Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
A novel · Bernard County
Goose & Scepter
On Christmas Eve, a sinister force surrounding Chase Quinlan turns fatal. It is not the first time.
Haunted by grief and a power he does not understand, Chase has spent his life keeping his distance. Because when people get too close, bad things happen. Sometimes, they do not walk away.
Miles Whitmore was not supposed to be part of that world. A polished CEO with everything to lose, he walks into the Goose and Scepter expecting a quiet night and instead falls in love with a man who is followed by darkness and death.
While Detective Malhotra closes in and pressure builds inside Miles's own company, the force surrounding Chase begins to change. Stronger. Darker. Far more possessive. Walking away would be the smart choice. Miles does not.
Because whatever is attached to Chase is not just watching anymore. It is choosing. And it will not let him go without a fight.
Available on Amazon.
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A novella
Dark Echoes
The heart always remembers what the mind buries.
Joshua thought he could escape his fears by hiding. But when a disabled car leaves him stranded at a remote repair shop steeped in dark memories, the past he buried comes clawing back.
Thunder cracks. Voices whisper. And something in the shadows knows his name. As shame and desire collide, the line between man and monster begins to blur. The longer Joshua stays, the more he realizes the horror around him is not random. It is personal.
To survive, Joshua must face the truth he has spent a lifetime running from.
Because some monsters are born in the dark. Others are made by it. And echoes never fade. They wait.
Dark Echoes is the most personal thing I've ever written. It isn't fiction wearing my life as a costume; it's my life, barely disguised as fiction. For years I hid behind a mask, smiling on the outside while something else was happening underneath. Writing this novella meant taking that mask off and looking straight at what was under it.
Every tear in this story is real. Every fear, every lie, every moment of hiding, I lived it before I wrote it. My hope is that someone who's carried the same kind of pain reads this and feels less alone with it.
Available on Amazon.
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