Books
THE LAST SACRIFICE (YA-SF) Embrys Clawthorn just wants the people of Insolsee to stop laughing at her. Never deemed good enough to train, she is chosen, in the ultimate joke, to go to the annual gryffon hunt. When she learns that she was chosen as a sacrifice meant to appease the gryffons, she vows to win just to prove she's not anyone's punchline. Befriending the gryffon-keeper, Trillium, as part of her strategy, she learns a terrible secret about the hunt. To save herself and those she's come to care about, she must find the strength to turn her enemies into allies and unite them against a common enemy.
ARDIS BREAKS THE BRAINERY (MG-SF) Ten-year-old Ardis Livani lives in Landsgard, an arid farming community, where every day is a struggle for water. Each spring, the Examiner comes to the village and takes the smartest ten-year-olds as tithes to the Academy of Sciences. They live a life of luxury as elite scholars in exchange for learning to develop new technology. Ardis, whose sister Larke, was tithed five years ago, and her best friend and step-sister, Tali’a, can’t wait to be chosen to go. When only Ardis is tithed in an upsetting change of procedure, she is comforted by the hope of reuniting with Larke and determined to return to visit Tali’a. But when she arrives at the Academy, nothing is how she imagined it would be, including the whereabouts of her sister. Searching for Larke with the help of her super-smart new friends, Ardis unearths a terrible secret, a plan to increase water flow to the Academy, that dooms Landsgard to destruction. Can she find a way to stop the project in time to save Landsgard, Tali’a, and what remains of their family?
PARTHENA (A-SF) Short on cash and down on her luck, former virologist Marhi Dotter wants to survive single motherhood without losing her mind, keep her daughter Evie safe, and maybe find love again. When she takes one last outbreak job in Azerbaijan, she's thrown into Parthena, a high-tech world with ancient traditions and powerful secrets. Separated from Evie in a violent atck by a mysterious enemy, Marhi must find a way to rescue her daughter and save the world from a global threat—a journey that will change her and Parthena—forever.
“PARTHENA” Awarded Best Pitch and Best Manuscript Sample, 2019 Atlanta Writer’s Conference