Published books

Buried in the Summer of 71

In the summer of 1971, Eddie Granger, an ambitious eighteen-year-old from northern Indiana, works at his father’s Chevrolet dealership and dreams of freedom. For his birthday, he’s given the ultimate symbol of success, a brand-new 1972 Z28 Camaro. He proudly drives it to football practice, turning heads among teammates. But admiration quickly turns to envy, particularly from Tommy Holt, whose father, **S**ergeant Frank Hol**t**, is a respected Indiana State Police officer. Tommy’s girlfriend, Lisa Morton, is bright, kind, and planning a future with Tommy after graduation. When Eddie and Lisa strike up an innocent friendship that grows into something deeper, it sparks quiet resentment within Tommy, and his father’s disapproval. One humid August night, Eddie and Lisa take the Camaro to the woods near Holt’s parents’ farm, where passion and youth collide.

Darkness under the light

Set against the humid, neon-soaked backdrop of late-80s Florida, **Darkness Under the Light** is a gritty psychological noir that explores the haunting transformation of a woman pushed to the absolute edge of existence. Melinda Duckworth is a soul adrift on the interstate, a landscape of anonymous truck stops and desolate service roads where the vulnerable are often viewed as disposable. The story delves into the high-stakes world of the "highway life," where every flickering streetlamp marks a potential sanctuary or a predator’s trap. When Melinda finds an unlikely mentor in the cynical, street-smart Lena, she is initiated into a dark curriculum of survival. What follows is a chilling study of power dynamics, as a woman who has spent her life as prey decides to pick up a weapon and rewrite the rules of the road. This is not just a crime thriller; it is a visceral examination of how desperation can curdle into a lethal, ideological rage. It asks whether one can ever truly find safety by adopting the violence of their oppressors. Atmospheric and uncompromising, the narrative follows a downward spiral of loyalty and betrayal, ultimately questioning what remains of the human spirit when the only path forward is paved in shadow.

AWAKE AT 3:00

**AWAKE AT 3:00** A Fatal Bargain Between Youth and Regret Arthur Hayes is 65, an architect of rigid order whose life has collapsed into a colorless prison of regret. His only companion is a crippling insomnia that strikes every morning at 3:00 AM, the precise moment his future took a fatal detour decades ago. Desperate to escape the waking dread, Arthur seeks a radical cure. He finds Willow, a shadowy, enigmatic figure who offers a solution rooted in the "Old Ways": a dark, potent tonic. The price is high, but the promise is intoxicating: the liquid grants him a temporary, perfect escape back to 1987, turning him into his vibrant, successful younger self, Arty Hayes, and uniting him with Lena, the new love that keeps drawing him back to a youthful life. But the gift comes with a chilling, absolute warning: no more than three drops per night, or you won't come back. In the span of a single night's sleep in 2024, Arthur lives weeks of reckless, euphoric freedom in 1987. The contrast between his ruined reality and his borrowed paradise becomes unbearable. Arthur quickly realizes the only thing worse than living his old life is having to return to it. Soon, the boundaries blur. Arthur begins to experiment, taking four drops, then five. The temptation to make the perfect life permanent is immense, but the consequences of breaking Willow’s rule remain terrifyingly unknown. **AWAKE AT 3:00** is a propulsive, psychological thriller that explores the dark heart of nostalgia and the ultimate cost of getting a second chance. How far would you go to reclaim the past, knowing that every choice you make in one life simultaneously destroys the other?

The Sanctuary Trap

When a botched no-knock raid on a retired Ranger’s home exposes a massive drug ring run by a megachurch’s "Golden Son," a disgraced detective and a cynical lawyer must expose the holy man’s high-end narcotics empire before the veteran is buried by a department cover-up. Elias Thorne is the perfect son. Returning to Gainesville with a silver tongue and a "wellness" ministry, he’s transformed his father’s 5,000-seat megachurch into the city’s most exclusive pharmacy. His "Blue Cross" pills aren't just supplements, they’re a high-octane addiction fueling the elite of West Side society. But when a late-night police raid hits the wrong house two blocks away, the life of Silas Crane, a retired combat veteran, is blown apart. Arrested for defending his home against what he thought was an ambush, Silas becomes the department's perfect scapegoat. As the church circles its wagons and the police department scrubs its servers to hide a lethal typo, an unlikely alliance forms. A guilt-ridden detective and a razor-sharp defense attorney must peel back the layers of a conspiracy that reaches from the sanctuary's altar to the highest levels of city power. In a town where faith is a business and justice is a liability, they are about to learn that some secrets are worth killing for.

The Pigeon Key

The Price of Perfection is Extinction. Leader Wei wanted a spotless kingdom. A single, repulsive stain of pigeon feces on a national monument drove him to commission the unthinkable: **Project Clean Slate**, the creation of P-Rex, a bio-weapon engineered to purge the avian pests forever. When an unprecedented earthquake shatters the containment facility, the weapon escapes. P-Rex mutates through livestock, making a terrifying, terminal leap to humanity. It becomes the **Wei Pathogen Virus (WPV)**, a disease that crawls across the skin in pustules before dissolving the lungs from the inside out. As the body count rises and the world descends into pandemic chaos, the government implements a total lockdown, destroying every piece of research that links the plague to its origin. The Race for the Cure is a Search for the Truth. In Geneva, an embattled research team led by Dr. Anya Sharma battles a ghost enemy, operating without a blueprint. Their only hope lies in a fragmented, coded message, the **Pigeon Key,** a genetic sequence smuggled out by a scientist risking execution. The Key is the only thing that can unlock the vaccine. But even if the cure can be found, how do you save a population when the architects of the plague are simultaneously destroying their trust in medicine? **WHY YOU MUST READ THIS STORY:** The Pigeon Key is not mere fiction; it is the genesis of our scarred reality. This is the definitive account of how **terminal vanity** and **political deceit** created a world defined by the **Age of Sterility** and perpetual surveillance. It exposes the fragile line between control and catastrophe, and reveals the cost of silence, a price paid in millions of lives, establishing the pervasive, endemic fear that shackles us even now. **Read it to know the truth behind the scar.**

The Witches of Culpepper

**The greatest power comes at the highest price, the suffering of mankind.** In a world secretly governed by **kinetic energy**, where human emotions possess raw, exploitable force, two ambitious sisters defy ancient law. **Kim, the Architect**, and **Lori, the Enforcer**, are the new apex of magical power, capable of cheating death by harvesting the kinetic discharge of human conflict. Their ambition leads them to the deadliest field of power in the 19th century: the American Civil War. But true immortality requires a horrifying anchor, the slow, continuous draining of a single, innocent life. The Witches of Culpepper plunges readers into a dark, esoteric struggle for eternal life. Hunted across a war-torn continent by their former mentor, Mary Worth, the sisters must race to secure a legendary **Source** of elemental power in the ancient swamps of Florida. If they succeed, they gain ultimate, **unburdened immortality**. If they fail, their chaotic, amassed power will tear them apart, vaporizing them in a single **Blue Flash**. Discover a historical fantasy where the only victory that matters is the one won over mortality itself.

The Crystal Grimoire

For generations, the Minix family lived quietly in the shadow of the Kentucky mountains, unaware that their blood carried the residue of an ancient, occult sovereignty. But the blood has stopped sleeping. Now, two women are faced with choices that will either crown them or consume them. **In a world where the sun and moon are at war, the only way to survive is to stay grounded.** * **A Haunting Occult Mystery:** Dive into a unique system of mountain magic and celestial power. * **A Story of Temptation:** Watch as characters navigate the thin line between ambition and corruption. * **The Power of Choice:** Discover why the friends you keep and the deals you make define the destiny of your bloodline.

The Levy County Ambush

The idea for The Levy County Ambush did not come from a single news headline or event. It came from years of watching how fear and frustration can harden people, how neighbors stop talking, how anger becomes an identity, and how the need to belong can be twisted into something destructive. In my years working and speaking across communities, I’ve seen the quiet struggles that live behind closed doors: the loss of work, the erosion of trust, the growing noise of division. I’ve seen how easily the disillusioned can be swept into movements that promise power but deliver only pain. This story is not meant to point fingers, nor to exploit tragedy. It is meant to **understand** it. To look honestly at how young men like Jonah Calhoun, are formed by poverty, by isolation, by the constant echo of voices that thrive on fear, and to follow what happens when that formation turns toward violence. Fiction allows us to confront what reality sometimes can’t bear to say aloud. Through the lens of storytelling, we can ask harder questions: What are we teaching our sons about belonging? Who do we become when we stop listening to one another? And what does redemption look like after something irreversible has been done? While The Levy County Ambush is a novel, its foundation is rooted in the world we all share, one where truth competes with noise, where loneliness is a weapon, and where understanding is our last, best defense against hate. This book is my attempt to shine a light into that dark space, not to justify, but to reveal; not to preach, but to prompt reflection. If a reader finishes this story thinking not just about the tragedy, but about how to prevent the next one, then the story will have served its purpose.