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Young Adult

The Wings of Winter  (epic fantasy)

The House of Many Doors  (ghost story)

Adult

MindBlind  (scifi/thriller)

Heal Thyself (Fantasy/Romance)

The Wings of Winter

          Until the massacre of her foster family, Sparrow Weaver believed the outlandish stories of Aliud shape shifters were just fairy tales to scare the village children. Her own odd ability to understand the language of birds was just part of the mystery of her birth. Now legends tangle with political intrigue as Sparrow is propelled to the center of a conflict that threatens the stability of both Human and Aliud worlds.

          Fleeing the destruction of her village, Sparrow, finds an ally in Owen, Crown Prince of Tremont.  Their common enemy is Elias, an Aliud shape shifter and Sparrow's uncle.  Elias has engineered the deaths of ruling monarchs in both Human and Aliud kingdoms. In the ensuing chaos, he exploits fractures within Aliud society and the Humans' fear of the shape shifters to push the races toward war.

          Sparrow is heir to power that Elias needs.  Because she is half-human, many of the Aliud see her as a threat and an abomination. Because she is half-Aliud, many in Tremont doubt her loyalties, mistrusting her relationship with Owen.  To oppose Elias and help Owen prevent Tremont’s destruction, Sparrow must harness her latent Aliud abilities even as her growing power estranges her from the human life she once knew and the prince she has come to love.

The House of Many Doors

"Last night I dreamed about the house again."

          Langdon Rene Parker, Jr. was never any good at drawing until his artist father disappeared. Suddenly, Parker creates perfect reproductions of a house he’s seen only in nightmares.  He fears his father is trapped inside it, wandering through a hallway lined with identical doors.  Talking about ‘the house that swallowed his father’ freaks his mother out, leads to appointments with a shrink, and earns the ninth-grader the nickname “Ding-Dong” Parker. 

           When he is assigned to tutor Julia Epstein, Parker discovers they have the house in common--her family owns a sketch of it drawn by his missing father. Convinced that his father is alive, Parker becomes increasingly obsessed with the house, pulling Julia into his quest to find it. What they discover drives them to challenge the house for his father’s life even as they risk disappearing behind one of its many doors.

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MindBlind

          When her sister Kathryn disappears as part of a government sanctioned illegal medical experiment, Isabel Jepson, an investigative journalist and closet empath must find her before Kathryn’s mind is shattered and before Isabel becomes the next test subject. MindBlind is an 80,000 word cross genre psychological/sci-fi thriller set in a near-future Boston.

         Isabel Jepson knows from bitter experience the outcome of treatment for hyper-empathy: Kathryn was one of the first children to undergo the neuro-ablative surgery twenty years earlier. Adults now, both sisters carry emotional scars left by the procedure that forever severed their empathic bond. Isabel longs for close relationships, but fear of disclosure and the risks of emotional entanglements have driven her away from co-workers, friends, and the man she loves.

          A freelance assignment on a new treatment protocol for hyper-empathy becomes dangerously personal when Isabel discovers that Kathryn is an unwilling patient in an experiment designed to create an empath whose loyalties and beliefs can be manipulated. Desperate to save her sister, Isabel enlists the help of four unlikely allies: her editor and former lover, Kathryn’s computer genius ex-boyfriend, a militant mindblind-hating empath, and the psychiatrist who pioneered the treatment that damaged Kathryn in childhood. They must reconcile differing agendas and animosity to expose the experiment and rescue Kathryn before her identity is obliterated in the name of political expediency.

Heal Thyself

          Lilliane Tor, a renowned healer from Rimland, learns the cost of keeping her oath when she defies guild orders and saves the life of Jahnissim Hal Zev, a member of the nomadic and insular Tisreen. A fugitive from her own land, she escapes to Tisreen with Zev and enters a bewildering world of a rigid religion and culture, where women's roles are tightly controlled and political disputes are settled on the edge of a blade. And where hudessh, or The Divine obligation, is as binding as any healer's oath.

          That Zev owes his life to a woman, and one who doesn't follow his beliefs challenges the foundations of his identity. When he finds evidence of an illegal slave trade poisoning the heart of both their countries, Zev must learn to trust Lilliane, working with her against a common evil. Their quest to unravel the truth and expose the trade threatens their lives, the stability of two governments, and the core of their own beliefs about one another.

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