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When the Candles Burn

What do you do when traditions are all you have left?

When her ex-wife and son leave town for the holiday, Corrie must spend Christmas alone for the first time in her life. In the cold silence of winter she must rediscover the wonder of the season as unexpected encounters stir old memories and fragile hopes. She finds herself facing an important question: can the magic she once believed in still be found or is it something that will remain lost?

  • Identity
  • Grief
  • Family
  • Hope
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She Thrives in Hell

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She Thrives in Hell

Survival is no longer enough.

T265 survives Hell in the carcass of who she used to be, but the whisper of her ghost forces her to intervene for a stranger. Now there is no going back—only death, betrayal, or the futile quest for the last shred of hope in damnation.

  • Found Family
  • Resistance
  • Hope
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Coming March 2027

Please Exit Through the Gift Shop

Who are you when your life is over?

Novella

Bridget always knew exactly who she was. So it was no surprise she threw herself into danger to save hundreds of students that morning. Her life was a price she never hesitated to pay. Now she awakens in a gift shop at the edge of existence where every certainty unravels. She struggles to make sense of who she is now that the life she built is over. Life taught her a lot about grieving loved ones, but no one taught her how to grieve the life she loved.

  • Grief
  • Sacrifice
  • Love
  • Family

The
Unchosen
Healer

A Novel

Querying

Querying

The Unchosen Healer

The healer who wasn't the hero of her own story must save the kingdom without becoming a monster.

Adult Epic Fantasy · 115,000 Words

Wren Aislin spent two years healing heroes on the front lines of the Great War without taking a single life. Until the day the war ended, when her power went berserk and she killed a woman.

Now a star has fallen from the heavens carrying a mysterious woman with no memories, and a plague is consuming the kingdom. As Wren searches for answers, her connection to the stranger becomes undeniable while Wren's own forbidden abilities grow harder to conceal.

  • Identity
  • Hope
  • Power
  • Found Family

Venus
Protocol

A Novel

Preproduction

Preproduction

Venus Protocol

There hasn't been a murder in over a century. Until Robyn is found covered in the victim's blood.

Science Fiction

Robyn expected an amazing evening of music and dancing with her husband. Instead, she ended the night shackled, covered in the blood of her former lover, and accused of the first murder in the United American Space Fleet in over a century.

Banished to the fleet's underbelly and stripped of everything she called home, she must uncover the real killer before she loses the one thing she refuses to: her son.

  • Identity
  • Class Division
  • Motherhood
  • Survival

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