Novels

A plane has come apart at 34,000 feet. Saroya Saul is found wandering on the ground below. But how could she have survived such a fall?

Some call it a hoax. Others claim it’s a miracle. And some believe she’s responsible for bringing the plane down. As the investigation grows increasingly hostile, Saroya learns the story of Julia—a 12-year-old Peruvian girl who was sucked from a plane over the Andes and lived. Desperate for answers, Saroya sets out to find Julia, hoping the girl—and her own slowly returning memories—will unlock the mystery. Were they chosen… or just lucky?

1st runner-up, William Faulkner/William Wisdom Award (Novel-in-Progress)—and now complete!

Steeped in the landscape and culture of the Far North, The Bears of Winter is a haunting exploration of memory, guilt, and whether atonement is ever truly possible—or even necessary.

Betheen Gardner Hollis, 40, returns to the frozen isolation of Eagle, Alaska, to lay a decades-old tragedy to rest—the death of a seventeen-year-old boy. But as memories resurface and old stories unravel, doubt creeps in. Was she complicit? Can the past ever be rewritten?

Imagine Where the Crawdads Sing meets Wild.

After Vanessa Holcomb’s husband, Andy, dies tragically, she embarks on an unlikely odyssey across the arid plains of Northern India—transporting his cryogenically frozen body in search of a village that may not even exist. As the journey stretches on and Andy slowly thaws, Vanessa is forced to confront the meaning of love, loss, and redemption.

A modern-day female Siddhartha story about grief, transformation, and the uncharted paths that lead us home.

Winner, The Zola Award, Jean M. Auel Mainstream Novel, PNWA Conference

*This novel was rewritten so the wife lives instead of the husband. Exactly the change the story required—and a fascinating development!!