Bruised Phoenix

What happens when you get knocked down over and over again and you feel this nightmare won’t ever end? Do you collapse under the pressure of it all, or do you stand up and fight each punch that is thrown at you? When will things finally calm down and start to be positive again?

Elly Hogan has been going through life as best as she can. Trying not to let situations bring her down along the way, but when the past comes back to haunt her, everything else that follows seems to go all wrong until it’s a fight for her life.

Connected

“The restaurant was loud and the music was even louder. I turned my head, our eyes met and everything just stopped.”

Iris Jacobs grew up on a dairy farm in Western Maine. She had everything she ever wanted, living in New York City, a dream career, and a great circle of friends. Her love life was a different story. She didn’t have one. That all changed the night she met Luca Ravello. The connection was something she never felt before.

Reality hits when Luca introduces Jane, his long-time fiancé.

Will Luca’s commitment to Jane stop him and Iris from exploring a new love? Can Iris live with the arrangement Luca expects from her?

Daler: A Novel

Daler is a coming-of-age story that follows a young man navigating life and relationships from his teenage years into early adulthood. Over the course of the nonlinear narrative, Daler experiences friendship and heartbreak, lust and love, wisdom and betrayal. He tries to make sense of a confusing world as he grows into his own. Though introspective and reserved, Daler has a kind heart and forms meaningful connections. The story provides a window into universal questions around purpose, integrity, and human nature. With vivid scenes and contemplative passages, Daler attempts to reconcile his ideals with reality.

Deadly Assumption

When a young man witnesses the rescue of a woman’s body from the ocean, he is shocked to recognize the tattoo on her shoulder as belonging to his prospective fiancé, Sarah. Traumatized, he flees the scene, unaware of the ensuing homicide investigation into the suspicious drowning and its findings.

Having arranged his business schedule hoping for a reconciliation following their disagreement in England, he had planned on proposing to Sarah during her visit to Vancouver Island. Devastated by her loss, he relocates to Germany, committing to a life without his soulmate. Struggling with grief, he is persistently tormented by the circumstances of her death and how her body came to be floating off Vancouver, more than 100 miles from her intended destination. Homesickness eventually drives him back to England, where he learns the shocking truth about the homicide investigation and the twist of fate that forever changes his chosen path.

As the story unfolds, it reveals the dramatic impact the deceased woman had on those whose lives she touched, particularly the man suspected of murdering her. The characters are tightly intertwined in this generational, multicultural saga of suspected homicide, enduring love, emotional trauma, and the fight to recapture those closest to the heart. With its roots set in England, Deadly Assumption is a tale rich in history, encompassing Canada, Germany, and France, and spanning the period from the years prior to World War II into the 1980s.

Delta Rise

Laria Skai has never known the truth of who she really is, nor her place in the tapestry of fate; but destiny has set her on the path to face her fears, learn to love, and rise up to the woman she has always been. At the same moment she meets the love of her life, she is swept up in a dangerous hunt from the last man she ever expected to have any connection to. With time running out, Laria must decide if she will hide from the cross that she bears, or face it head on so that she may protect the one man whom she loves more than anything in the world.

Zachary Kenz is the elite of the elite, serving as team leader for Delta Force Squad A. He is a man who has everything; skill, strength, and even the full confidence of the President of the United States. But the love of his life is still out of his reach, and his need to have her in his world can no longer be ignored. When fate finally places her in his path, his heart is immediately overcome with her, but before he can grab onto her and pull her in, an unexpected danger rears it’s wrath, putting at risk everything that he holds dear, leaving Zac no choice but to unleash the deadly soldier inside him against the evil that dared threaten his woman.

Never underestimate the lengths at which a true man will go to save the woman he loves; no matter the danger, no matter the odds, and when that man also happens to be a trained operator...the devil himself best get out of the way.

Dildo-Gate

Andrea’s cell phone has been chirping incessantly for weeks. A precarious request to search for women’s toys of pleasure co-mingles lustful desires juxtaposed in a patriarchal world. She completes her indulgent primping routine and is ready to board her plane. Her immoral cargo is discreetly packed when she is detained by US border agents at the gate.

Waiting for her toy drop on the other side of the world is the local patron who detours from the agreed delivery plan. The pressure builds on meeting Irena, a local cosmetic manager who is making regular midnight rendezvous from a high mountain village. On Andrea’s arrival, he insists they meet. Unsatisfied with the turn of events, Andrea senses things are amiss and laments over their first passionate encounters years earlier, retaliates to fill all her erotic needs by combatting norms.

The Patron’s confidant and beautiful business partner Nina undermines her patron, raising increasing havoc. She is a youthful entrepreneur in a patriarchal world also seeking pleasure, power and wants control over the toy cargo and partners with Andrea to get rid of Irena.

Dildo-Gate II

The Jenga puzzle continues. The story of our traveler, Andrea, her deep sense of place intertwined with thematic adventures and political tensions set in the backdrop of Eastern Europe.

Her cell phone begins to chime as soon as she returns to the mainland, and she texts back.

She agrees to a new trip. Nina wants her return and close friends Misty and Lori will join. Resuming her primping routine, she readies her look. Her and Nina plan out all the trip details.

Emboldened from her last visit, she packs new gifts. And Ahmed has softened his anger; she places her claddagh ring back on her hand.

Her plans go sideways as she is pressed for money, jealousies collide and the unwelcome Irina returns.

Earlier Fires

Earlier Fires chronicles the personal evolution of Adrian, a promising student, over 20 years as he leaves his prestigious New Jersey prep school to make his name in the competitive legal world of NYC’s corporate law firms. As a disillusioned 17-year-old, Adrian recognizes the entrapment of perpetuating his privileged socioeconomic status.

He excels academically but struggles to envision a purposeful future, feeling fate-bound to graduate high school and college before climbing the well-worn ladder of material success. Adrian grapples with whether meaningful relationships can endure in a culture consumed by globalized commercialization.

In his quest for purpose, he connects with Dominic, a like-minded rebel, and rekindles a childhood friendship with Delilah when she serendipitously re-enters his life.

Will Adrian break free from expectations to chart his own definition of achievement? Can these kindred spirits sustain bonds despite diverging destinies? Or will the cycle of reproducing class status subsume Adrian as its unwitting heir?

El Club de los Suicidas

La vida nunca es fácil. Es una lección que varios jóvenes aprenden al decidir e intentar tomarse su vida. Por medio de un acto insólito, estos jóvenes logran ver que la vida trae consigo muchas cosas, tal como personas que no solo se encuentran en su misma situación o similar, sino que también les abre los ojos y los ayuda a ver lo hermosa y variada que es la vida.

Escape from Hell

Anne’s mother is in an abusive marriage, and it is up to Anne to get her out, before she is killed. Anne gets her mother to safety, but they both realize, until her mother’s abuser is brought to justice, they can never be free. While getting supplies, Anne bumps into a stranger who captures her attention as no one else ever had. This chance meeting starts a chain of events that ends with a never to be forgotten businessman’s gala.

Evanshard Glade

Jeren awakes in the wizard academy to find the other wizards missing and a baby placed in his room. He feels the need to protect her at all costs and must run to elude the charge of a barbarian horde. He meets a group of villagers, survivors of a massacre and connects with beautiful Arium. Starting on a trek, they go through harrowing experiences avoiding feral pursuit while they accumulate friends and allies, as well as develop skills both with magic and with physical combat. Each twist and turn of their epic quest to find Evanshard Glade is daunting and leads them deeper into conflict with their ultimate enemy. It’s written to be a “buckle your seatbelt” saga.

First Love

Being a fiercely determined young lady who has always taken care of herself, Billie Jo was extremely surprised to find herself the victim of target practice for this insanely arrogant, completely revolting individual, who is obviously somewhat removed from reality if his current actions are any indication.

Never in a million years would she have believed she would have let her guard down long enough to find herself here in this place with this person, fighting for her life, but unable to speak at all due to the duct tape and the gag he’d stuffed into her mouth.

He’d already kicked her so hard, so many times, she was sure she’d lost the baby. Alex would never forgive her for allowing this man to kill their child. She prayed he would finish the job and end her suffering, but she knew in her heart that he wanted her to suffer further. After all, she hadn’t chosen him. In fact, she was completely repelled by him, always had been.