****Taken down for publication with Parliament House Press in 2019*** ****Bonus Story Available: The House of Seven Smiles***** ***Wattys 2015 Winner!!!*** Magic runs bone deep... In a world overrun by monsters, humans struggle for survival underground. Magic is feared and reviled, but rooted deep in the bloodlines of families, cropping up once a generation. These individuals are cast out, banished to the Above where humans are far, far down the food chain. When her younger brother is tainted by magic and forced to the surface, Azzy follows, determined to save the only family she has left, no matter what he becomes. ***Lovely Cover by @mulanjiang*** ***#2!! in Adventure 2/28/16*** ***#6!! in Fantasy 8/15/16***

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She was unrelenting. Her form swam through the darkness, flailing and embittered by unforeseen circumstances. Her face was angry, desperate, and still beautiful. Mary Jane’s clopped back down on the cement, her skirt billowing in the wind, and a single, slender, porcelain hand grasped desperately for something she couldn’t quite reach.

The particulars might vary but the cycle remains the same; Mordred rises to try and gain control, an Arthur confronts him and balance is restored. But after fifteen hundred years of getting his butt kicked by various incarnations of his nemesis, Mordred decides to play dirty and kidnaps the prince that guards the gate to the Otherworld, unleashing havoc on modern day London. When Adam Blythe pulls a sword from the ground and becomes the new cycle's Arthur figure, he finds himself and his best friend Clara thrown into a world of monsters, magic and murder. With the future unclear and the fate of the world in his hands, Adam must assemble his knights - individuals with supernatural gifts - and find Excalibur, the fabled weapon that will give him great power. However it won't be easy, when there are those around him who cannot be trusted and he has no way of knowing where Excalibur could be.

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.

Cacee Adams never suspects that Jess--the, "honor-student/ Boy Scout" she's falling for, is really a street-smart delinquent who's never told her a single true thing about himself. But when Cacee and Jess somehow fall through a painting and wake up far from the mountains of Pennsylvania, everything changes. Stranded in a dangerous city that holds shocking surprises, Cacee is forced to depend on Jess for her very survival. Now, as Cacee watches Jess pick pockets and win knife fights with equal ease, she realizes the boy she thought she knew never existed. As they struggle to stay alive long enough to return home, Cacee must decide: Can a thief and a liar be trusted with the biggest thing he's ever stolen--her heart.

A work-in-progress. After over a century in training, faerie sisters Zin and Char are sent on their first assignment in the human realm. Nymph Zin is expected to find, and claim for her own, a boy that will help the humans save their quickly deteriorating world. Char, her guardian, is along for the ride and expected to keep her sister safe. When new students move to the school, is it strictly a coincidence? Zin falls hard for the new guy, while her human match starts dating the new girl. With the assignment seeming to fall to pieces all too quickly, the sisters have to keep their heads about them to figure out what is really going on. And to stop the evil that is trying to make sure they fail, no matter the cost.

** A 2015 Wattpad-Featured Novel ** Parker Jennings moved to Los Angeles with only one goal: fulfilling his dream of becoming a director. When he finds his junior year of college unexpectedly derailed, Parker takes an internship at a talent agency, hoping to get his foot in the door with the industry's elite. It isn't until he meets Sophie Winters, once the biggest up-and-coming star in Hollywood, that he realizes how little he knows about the world he's trying to enter. The two need each other more than they know, but is what they have real, or an illusion created by the city of make believe?