MOSH PIT (THE ROSE GARDEN ARENA INCIDENT, BOOK 1)

Record-breaking superstar, Dakota Shane, stands center stage at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, Oregon, the night six bullets ring out through the stadium. People panic. People run. And people die. Lives change.

This is their story: the learning-disabled kid from East St. Louis trying to grapple with his mother and sister having become collateral damage in a drive-by; the quick-witted black man finding himself duct-taped to a chair, hostage to a meth-addled lunatic wanted for a double homicide; the Latino son desperately struggling to rise above his abusive father; the slash-punk singer managing to score her band their best gig ever, only to find they may not stay together long enough to play it; the transplanted ex-LAPD detective finally facing the ghosts from his past; the bitter ex-wife of a DJ still secretly listening to his midnight radio show while drinking herself into a whiskey coma; the out of control daughter having unprotected sex with strangers hoping that pregnancy might draw the attention of parents unable to see past themselves...

And Dakota Shane: chart-topping megastar with a terrible secret, caught in a media frenzy of rumor, speculation, and lies. She's off her meds, searching for any semblance of herself still existing inside of an identity forged by an extremely successful record company's marketing department.

Each of these lives is a story and each story collides with the others like balls bouncing off pinball bumpers.

In the end, The Rose Garden Arena Incident is a tale about passion, about bravery, about redemption, about fixing those things in the world that are fixable and learning to live with the things that are not-A heartbreaking story of tragedy, despair, and loss that still somehow leaves you with a glimmer of faith, love, and hope.

A "serial thriller," the story will take place over seven separate books.