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Emotionally Driven Novels
Relationships can be difficult as well as fulfilling. In my mainstream and historical novels, I explore relationships on multiple emotional levels.
Mainstream Fiction
Petrichor
A riveting tale of transformation, redemption, and the timeless struggle to bridge the chasm between the self and the world—one choice at a time.
Water Like Blood
Intense and visceral! A young man kills his brother accidentally and must live with the respercussions.
Historical Fiction
Sweet Song
In this post Civil War historical novel, a mulatto, wrestling with a divided heritage, puts himself in danger when he chooses to pass for white while traveling through Pennsylvania.
WINNER
Silver IPPY Award
"Sweet Song" Trailer
Deception Creek
After being raised by his mother with help from his paternal grandparents, a young man becomes overwhelmed by emotion when he finds that his past isn't what he thought it was.
The Perceived Darkness
In this novel, we find nine people who meet at a party and how quickly their lives begin to intertwine. This is a raw, realistic, and harrowing novel about friendship, betrayal, and madness.
International Book Award Finalist
Ten Months in Wonderland
In this Vietnam era novel, a young Airman stationed in Thailand is unprepared for the seamy underbelly of hardcore booze, druges, and sex.
Magical Realism
There is so much more to this world than we can imaging. Sometimes I like to write about that strangeness and how, once it's exposed, we can't see the world the same way ever again.
Wolf's Rite
An advertising executive is led to spiritual awakening by mystical Native Americans, and discovers love and violence at the edges of sanity.
WINNER
Star of
Washington Award
Giver of Gifts
This short novel tells the story of a school teacher who's mysterious encounter with a deer gives him the key to reopen his heart.
USA Book News
Best Books Awards
The Witness Tree
In this magical realism novel, a troubled, brilliant artist explores the connections between creativity and madness.
To Our Waking Souls
In this paranormal love story, a man searching for solitude happens upon an old factory where he goes into a trance and relives a past life with his soon to be ex-wife.
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