writing projects
Where Perfect Goes To Die
Trinity
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Category: New Adult
Status: Querying
All she knows is being perfect.
All he has is pitching perfect.
Their love is where perfect goes to die.
The Sandlot (1993) meets Kristin Dwyer’s SOME MISTAKES WERE MADE.
Class valedictorian, state champion runner, and future Ivy Leaguer, eighteen-year-old Taryn Walker has it all. But when a season-ending injury derails her ambitions, she feels like a failure. Enter Teo, the baseball team’s star pitcher. He invites Taryn to join his summer baseball team, and for all the wrong reasons, Taryn accepts.
But this team has more heart than skill, and if Taryn can’t come to terms with failure, she might just lose everyone she loves, including Teo, the only boy who’s ever seen her for who she is, not what she achieves.
Genre: Contemporary paranormal romance
Category: New Adult
Status: Available on kindle vella
“It’s all fun and games until somebody gets cursed…”
A sexy vampire. A broody werewolf. A powerful warlock. When three irresistible men crash Brielle's birthday party, of course her friends make her play marry, f*ck, kill. But an ancient relic the strangers are chasing curses Brielle to fulfill her MFK choices or slowly become Demonica, the very thing her Hunter crush is sworn to destroy. Will they be able to break the curse before Brielle has to marry, f*ck, and kill three men or will a notorious Demonica's return to Savannah crush their plans?
TRINITY is now available on Kindle Vella!
Falcon of stars
Genre: Fantasy - historical fantasy - second-world low fantasy
Category: Adult with crossover appeal
Status: Book one Complete
When a nineteen-year-old thief fleeing execution discovers that her parents were the murdered king and queen of a desert kingdom and that she now bears their souls incarnate within her, she must escape across a barren desert, negotiate with treacherous kinfolk, and charm deceitful senators to make alliances and usurp her fratricidal uncle’s reign… or forfeit her and her parent’s afterlives as stars in the night sky.
In a lush and dangerous world inspired by Ancient Egypt, Falcon of Stars takes inspiration from the intrigue and romance in the legend of Cleopatra blended with the mystery and deception in the fantasy of Anastasia. The dark, sexy ambiance and snarky banter of Blood & Honey meets the rich worldbuilding and intrigue of City of Brass. It is the first in a planned duology.
the bone singer’s curse
Genre: fantasy - historical fantasy - second-world fantasy
category: Adult with crossover appeal
status: Revising
Calla doesn’t believe in love, but when she triggers a curse she’s been avoiding her entire life, she is bound to the first man she looks in the eyes by day and to her malevolent goddess by night, a fate she’ll be trapped into if she can’t fall in love and break her curse. But the goddess has been keeping dangerous secrets, and Calla must fight for her heart before the goddess forces her into an eternity of servitude and brings an entire civilization to its knees.
The Bone Singer’s Curse contrasts dark academia with an ancient, vibrant jungle kingdom on the verge of war, where Calla, an eighteen-year-old gifted with the ability to sense bones, is desperate to outrun her fate. Only, her fate lies at the center of these two, colliding worlds. It’s Outlander x Tarzan with a dash of The Vampire Diaries.
Takers Two
Genre: fantasy - historical fantasy - second-world fantasy
category: Adult with crossover appeal
status: drafted
“Now that we have your attention…”
When high-society heiress Amalie Cordin-Larreau discovers that the enigmatic magic troupe Takers Two will be performing on her voyage aboard the steamliner Fascination, she sees it as her chance to become the villain she’s always wanted to be; only, to be one person’s villain is to be another’s hero, and as she’s swept away by the troupe’s leader, Alexi, she becomes entangled in forbidden romance, political intrigue, and murder…
Takers Two sits at the intersection of Caraval and Titanic (1997) with vibrant magic, star-crossed romance, and a splash of murder mystery.
Personal projects
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The first in a planned YA dystopian duology in which Tori, a nurse whose love for a boy is the only thing that outweighs her love for her government, is relegated to the uncivilized farming district on charges of treason. There, she discovers that perhaps the Farmers aren’t as barbaric—or innocent—as she thought, and she might just be able to find purpose, family, and love amidst them. Except her government and the Farmers have both been keeping dangerous secrets of their history, secrets that challenge everything Tori ever believed and could land her in the middle of a mass exodus…or war.
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A YA fantasy series, in which fourteen-year-old Dara of Auwla has lost everything to Markine, the powerful enemy of her kingdom, but when a mysterious and magical stranger convinces her to take vengeance, Dara disguises herself as a boy to train at the military academy. Only, she’s not the only one who isn’t who she appears to be, and while Dara struggles through the rigorous training to become a knight, she also fights with the notion that her friends—and the stranger—are much more dangerous than she thought. And her role in the war against Markine is quickly becoming a destiny she never wanted.