Mary made her choice at sixteen and never looked back. Twenty years later she has built exactly the life she intended — careful, controlled, closed.

Then Eli finds her.

He is charming. Brilliant. Desperate for the mother he never knew. And Mary, who swore she felt nothing, feels everything.

But the closer she gets to the son she gave away, the less certain she becomes — about him, about the life he has built, about the version of herself she sees reflected in his eyes.

Brought into this World is a psychological thriller about the stories we tell ourselves to survive, and what happens when someone who knows the truth decides to tell a different one.

Some bonds are unbreakable.

Some were never meant to be formed.

Completed manuscript — seeking representation

Owen Matthews built his life on the law — on truth, on systems that hold, on the belief that a person is accountable for what they do. He was a good father. A devoted husband. The kind of man people trusted without thinking about why.

Sara trusted him too. But Sara kept journals.

When Owen’s dementia begins to take him, his daughter Liz steps in to manage what’s left — the appointments, the medications, the slow work of watching a person become someone smaller than themselves. When an experimental neural implant offers him back, she reaches for it without hesitation.

Then she finds her mother’s journals. And inside them, a secret Sara spent thirty years circling — letters from a woman named Carla, a drowning, a nine-year-old boy who told a lie that destroyed his mother’s life and never corrected it.

The implant is already failing. Owen is already disappearing.

Liz has one question left to ask him — and almost no time left to ask it.

Partly Cloudy is a novel about the lives our parents lived before we knew them, the truths we inherit without asking, and what it costs to love someone you’re no longer sure you fully know.

Completed manuscript — seeking representation

In the small towns and open spaces of Central Texas, the systems that shape lives are rarely visible to the people living inside them. The Invisible is a series of stories about ordinary men and women caught in forces larger than themselves — and the quiet, irreversible moments when they must decide who they are.

Rooted in the landscapes and moral complexity of Central Texas, each story draws from the great literary traditions while finding something distinctly American in the reckoning.

Short story series — in development

Galveston, 1943. The war is everywhere and nowhere — in the rationing lines, the empty storefronts, the men who didn’t come home and the ones who found reasons to stay.

When a body turns up on the seawall, it should be simple. Wartime deaths rarely are. But the investigation pulls at threads that reach deep into Galveston’s most powerful families — and into the machinery of men who are profiting from a war they never intended to fight in.

Betrayed is a noir novel about loyalty, greed, and the particular moral rot that flourishes when everyone is too busy surviving to ask the right questions.

Work in progress