A newly expanded and professionally edited version of the Boy in the Woods is now available for sale as an ebook and paperback! Buy it at Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and many other online outlets. Winner of the 2014 Wattys Talk of the Town award. After a devastating accident takes Jess's parents, a cold and controlling uncle is the only family she has left. Ripping away everything she's ever known, he takes her far from her home in the big city to live on the rural family estate. With a spoiled and stuck up older cousin the only other young person in the home, Jess struggles to adjust to her new life of loneliness and quiet isolation. While exploring the woods surrounding her home one day, she stumbles upon a mysterious boy. Desperate for a friend, she's instantly drawn to him, but he's deeply distrustful and wants nothing to do with her. Sneaking away to see him, she works hard to break through his walls and slowly gains his trust. As time passes, their bond grows from forbidden friendship into something more, but the threat they'll be caught looms closer. How far will Jess have to go to protect the boy she's fallen in love with? Or will her uncle find out about them before she can escape his control? The Boy in the Woods is a mysterious and poignant coming of age novel set in the late 1950's, with the same classic feel as A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. As one of the top ten most read historical fiction stories on the popular reading website Wattpad.com, it's already loved by tens of thousands of readers. This compelling story is twice the length of the average young adult novel, and is appropriate for ages 14 to adult. By the same author as Wattys finalists Stolen Hearts and Love You Forever! Best Ranking: Historical Fiction #1 General Fiction #3 Warning: This story contains occasional language and mild violence.

"Grayish-black smoke fills her vision, and the red eyes staring at her turn gray with the pupils rimmed black. As silver flecks appear on them, Sam recognizes the eyes of her gray-eyed phantom. Sam desperately tries to look away but she couldn't. The gray eyes narrow into slits, and she hears the deep timbre of a howling wolf." ___ Samantha Evanson loves her life in the city, and all her dreams are within reach. But her goal of being a doctor is put into hold when her family is summoned back to Redwood Pack. A series of misfortune had befallen the werewolf pack community, continuing well after the Evansons arrive. All of a sudden, Sam's life of logic and science is being invaded by the magic calling of her werewolf blood, pulling her back to a life of shifting wolves, alphas, mates, and.. vampires?