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St. Ninian's SanctuaryChristian Romance
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Casa FlaniganChristian Romance
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Terry's GardenChristian Coming of age/Romance
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The Swamp BooksComing of age/Romance
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Girls AglowChristian teen/adult romance
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Boys of SummerChristian teen/adult fiction
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Tales of BaliaFantasy
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The Sekou SagaFantasy

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Could this be the end of the island?
Felicia is on the island to watch her cousin Lynn marry one of the island pilots. Barry is on the island to give his mother-in-law a chance to refresh and recharge, knowing caring for his wheelchair-bound son is wearing her down.
Or so they believe. Perhaps God wants Felicia’s childhood wounds to heal. Perhaps he wants her to touch a boy trapped in a broken body and a broken mind. Perhaps Barry is here for his own heart, which shut down after the accident that killed his wife and damaged his son, the accident he believes was his fault. Perhaps both of them need love and new beginnings.
Or perhaps it’s even bigger. Perhaps this pair has a darker purpose, and they will face great loss and heartache to reach the soul of an island that’s floundering. For months now the sanctuary has fractured and gossiped and torn people down, and this family might be the catalyst for change for an entire island’s future. Even at a devastating cost.
St. Ninian’s Sanctuary series, small-town contemporary Christian romance with a mysterious island twist.
Felicia is on the island to watch her cousin Lynn marry one of the island pilots. Barry is on the island to give his mother-in-law a chance to refresh and recharge, knowing caring for his wheelchair-bound son is wearing her down.
Or so they believe. Perhaps God wants more for Felicia, Barry, and the entire population of St. Ninian’s Sanctuary. And maybe the lessons learned come with devastating consequences. Click the cover for more information.

After rescuing him for years, she came the closest to taking him down.
Jazz: I didn’t expect to get home one September day of freshman year and discover my mom had bailed. Like, an empty closet and a note. Dad was out of town—like always—and taking care of my little sisters was now my job. Unfortunately, the stress of that landed me in the hospital, and the nightmare began—loss, asthma, and crazy food allergies. I felt like life was over. Strangely, besides Eli, my best friend, this weird girl from youth group, Violet Kenton, glommed onto me and decided to help. Except some days she liked me and some she avoided me, and she was as confusing as the rest of my life.
Violet: My siblings all fell in love early, and the dramas that followed were scary. I decided not to do that. No teen romance for me, thank you. Then this guy I knew, Jazz Fitzsimmons, fell on hard times, and I helped him. When I realized what I was doing, I ran from him. Except that made me a monster, so I helped him again. He helped me, too, when my best friend went through a scary event and I was considering a life of foreign ministry. Unfortunately, while my dad is great at God and faith, like this pillar of the community, I got a few things messed up and turned into the most dangerous person in the lives of my best friends. So much for avoiding drama…
Terry’s Garden, stories about a huge family, an enchanting garden, and a love story that touches generations. Christian coming-of-age/romance novels for teens and anyone who remembers what it’s like to take those first wobbling steps into adulthood.

His whole life was haunted...


He could lock the gardens, but not the past
He was never meant to live this life
As he turns nineteen, Nick Kyngeston seems to have the world. He’s the heir to one of the most important kingdoms on Caperton Island. He’s engaged to the girl he’s loved all his life. He has wealth and looks and prestige. Unfortunately, all of it is supposed to belong to his twin brother, who drowned years ago, leaving Nick with a life he doesn’t want and memories that haunt him.
Anselm, a foreign stable boy, appears just as Nick is thrust into his new role as the adult heir, a commoner who knows nothing of noble life and propriety and makes Nick laugh. Then Anselm saves Nick’s life, nearly at the expense of his own, and they realize someone is trying to kill the heir to the throne, which puts Nick, his fiancée Cecily, and everyone else on the Kyngeston estate in danger.
While trying to thwart the danger, Nick and Anselm seek answers in a locked garden filled with mysteries and secrets from the past. But the tangle of secrets will lead them to discoveries that will change the lives of everyone on Caperton Island and could throw the future of the island into chaos.
The Weeping Heir is a Tale of Balia, stories of a world not unlike our own with a deity who will stop at nothing to bring his people home, one story at a time. Historic fantasy with a Christian worldview.

The new stable boys are causing quite a stir


They don't know who they are...

When two new stable boys show up at Hawthorn Castle, everyone knows they aren’t who they say, but laundry mistress Valerie has no idea their secrets will change her entire life. The deity TrueGod, though, has planned this crossing of paths for many years, and before all is revealed, Valerie and her friend Harmony will lose everything they always knew, travel dangerous paths, and try to find life in a new world filled with danger.
For Faraday and Alex, the plan is simply to protect Valerie and the secrets she doesn’t know about herself. Instead, they tip their hands and end up dragging the girls into danger to escape an old enemy. But even they don’t know the depths of the secrets surrounding them, and TrueGod will use these secrets to change not only the lives of stable boys and house maids but the fates of entire kingdoms.
Secret identities. Creepy castles. Journeys through danger. Ancient evil. When two new stable boys appear at Hawthorn Castle, two nearly-invisible maids have no idea the men will change their lives and the lives of two kingdoms. Now on Kindle Unlimited, or buy for $0.99 throughout the month. Click cover for more information.




Sneak Peeks
What's on the drawing board...
Some are ready to go. Some need final edits. Some are barely more than ideas in my head. But eventually all of them will see the light of day.