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BACKSTABBER: Coming Soon through Touchpoint Press

Britt Junius has been standing in the shadow of her best friend Jules since kindergarten, but as elections for senior year student government begins, she’s not sure she can be an observer any longer. Her love for Jules is great, but Britt’s love for Rome High School is greater. In this time of transition, Rome must come first, even if it means her own demise.

Swayed by her love of Rome, Britt agrees. Together the girls begin a quest of social destruction against Jules, but her followers are stronger than they anticipate. Britt and Cassidy think they are dethroning Jules, but it’s their own social standings that will take the biggest hit.

With spring elections coming, Jules is a shoo-in to win Junior Princess and soon after ASB President for Senior year. Cassidy, the third in their group, can’t stand it any longer. Jules’ tirade has tortured students for years, leaving Cassidy desperate for change. Her first step is to recruit Britt to assist in the conspiracy of a high school lifetime.

IN THE MIDDLE published by Darkstroke Books on Amazon

If she had known being dead was going to be such a challenge, she would have tried harder to stay alive.

After a tragic texting accident, Maddie Jones finds herself stuck in her hometown with no idea how to move on to Heaven. All she knows is that because of the world’s overpopulation, Heaven can’t handle the influx of the dead, so a new process has been established. The dead must have a bus ticket to Heaven. With little to no knowledge on how to obtain this ticket, the only companion she has is her elderly deceased neighbor, Mr. Fowler, who acts more as a mentor and guide than a friend. Matters get worse when Aaron DeCann, the star quarterback from her high school, joins her in their purgatory town. As a ‘hipster’, she hates everything he represents, but Maddie must learn to look beyond her preconceptions in order to work with Aaron to earn their passage to Heaven. Together, they discover that everyone there has a story and each person has a unique lesson to learn, but it isn’t enough. Maddie and Aaron must figure out what it is they each have to learn to get their own tickets to Heaven without killing each other first.

KERIDWEN – published by Darkstroke Books on Amazon

Once at Keridwen, Caitlyn discovers that while the rest of the druid world has only one blessing, she has two. Attempting to not draw unwanted attention, she must train for one during the day and secretly at night for the other. All the while, a war that has been brewing between the two factions of druids, the guardians and the rogues, erupts. In order to help the guardians protect the queen druid, Genevieve, and the rest of the school, Caitlyn must master her blessings, juggle her new social life (balancing best friends – a shapeshifter and an emergence – and a potential boyfriend), and hide her extra ability from everyone. With the weight of the druid world on her shoulders, Caitlyn must become stronger than anyone else her age and fight in a war for something she never knew existed.

Caitlyn Brady, a 16-year-old sophomore from the Sky Islands of southern Arizona, has learned that she is the daughter of 600 years-old druid parents. Her parents break the news that she must report to Keridwen in the fall; it’s here she will learn how to master her druid-given blessing while also learning how to assimilate back into the human world without revealing their age-old secret existence.

Short Fiction: Chicken Soup for the Soul Military Families – I wrote this piece about my husband’s journey home to see our newborn daughter for the first time. He drove through the night to see her for 24 hours before having to return to his current duty station the next day.

GUARDIANS (not published)

After a year at Keridwen, a school for druids, 17-year-old Caitlyn Brady is in danger for the second time. Now, the rogues are after her and bent on her destruction. To save her, Genevieve, the queen druid, has arranged for her to leave her home in Arizona and to stay at the Guardian Training Center in Colorado.

Away from her family and everything she found familiar, Caitlyn and her best friend Devlin find themselves in a center full of massive expert druids and they’re being forced to learn mastery of their blessings overnight. While Devlin is learning about controlling his shift into a grizzly bear, Caitlyn must juggle training with emergence (manipulating nature) in the morning and rejuvenation (cast healing) in the afternoon. Just when they think all is safe, everything they know is turned upside and they must fight to survive and get back to Keridwen.

TO WHERE AND BACK (not published)

She never thought stepping in front of a truck would be her way to die, but when it happened, she thought it was her only choice.

For Alicia Woodland, her senior year was supposed to be the final stepping stone before marrying her sweetheart, Bobby, but it all comes shattering down when he is killed in action in Afghanistan.  She turns to her best friend, Nikki, for support. With Nikki’s help, she begins to find happiness again and even meets a new boy, but before the healing is complete, another tragedy strikes – Nikki is killed in a drunk driving accident.  Alicia thinks the only way out is to end her life as well, but it’s not as easy as she thought. Rather than it all ending, she finds herself in place somewhere in between life and death and is faced with an unseen power forcing her to watch scenes of her past, present, and possible future. First, she must watch her life up to her stepping in front of traffic.  Then, she must watch her family and friends go through the third round of grief, this time involving her parents losing their only child. Finally, she must watch the what-ifs. What are the possibilities in her future if she chooses to live? College? Career? Marriage? Kids? Alicia must choose what path to take – life or death.

LOVE AND TEXTS (not published)

Having always been content being the polar opposite of her best friend, Sophie Taylor, she lived for years in Sophie’s shadow scoffing at Sophie’s wild and sometimes loose behavior. But when Lucas arrives, her world will quickly change.  In a blink of an eye, Audrey is the one with the boyfriend, while Sophie takes her turn behind Audrey watching with envy.  Now Audrey is the one with the hot boy’s attention, a real romance, and a first kiss to dream about. Sophie’s jealous and hell-bent on taking back the attention she thinks she deserves.

As Audrey attempts to navigate a series of firsts, Sophie’s family life is crumbling leaving Sophie desperate to remain the most important person in Audrey’s world.  Together the girls must figure out how to balance their new lives, classes, and friendship in order to make it through their final year of high school without losing everything in the process.