Space Division spy Cody Greene lies for a living. That’s one reason he looks at every woman with skepticism. He’s single because of his dysfunctional relationship with his pampered, politician mother and the fact that he’s still in love with his high school sweetheart, who died mysteriously years ago.

That leaves Cody in a tight spot when he’s ordered to marry a naïve tech genius named Lisa Shim. She’s part of the elite class and has invented everything that makes Mars amazing. Restricted by his oath, he can’t tell her she’s in danger.

Is Lisa like his mother? Or is she the perfect match he’s been praying for?

Hard Start: Mars Intrigue (book 1) Content like Twilight, style like Divergent, highs and lows like The Bourne Identity

Tidal Pulse: Mars Revolution (book 2) To be released in 2024.

A daring, freedom fighter on Mars seeks revenge after a soul-crushing betrayal shakes his faith. Tragically, he's made a catastrophic mistake. The woman he blamed is innocent. Worse yet, he's fallen in love.

He'll risk everything to help her save the planet before the real culprit murders everyone who doesn't fit a twisted plan. But will she forgive him for what he's done? Can he forgive himself?

What will it cost to keep her secret?

Serious and haunted, Em protects orphans in her castle. Will the marauding, enemy clan who stole her virtue defeat her again? Or will the damage they've already done cause her death at the gallows for an atrocity she didn't commit? When she can no longer run in the dark, she must face her fear in the light of day.

S.V. Farnsworth’s dystopian themes gently address healing after a sexual assault.

Woman of the Stone (book 1)

Monarch in the Flames (book 2)

Book 3 in the Modutan Empire Series is coming in 2024.

Stephan's peaceful reign as the king of Frenland is in jeopardy. Only one person stands a chance at preventing his assassination. Unfortunately, Valerie is in exile.

What could entice the crown princess of the former tyrannical regime to risk burning at the stake to help him? Nothing, unless he succeeded in capturing her heart last summer.

Woman of the Stone (book 1)

Monarch in the Flames (book 2)

Book 3 in the Modutan Empire Series is coming in 2024.

French, heiress Nicole Moreau takes her hard-working, American best friend, Andrew Leavitt, for granted. Then he puts his education at UCLA on hold to serve as a missionary in South Korea for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

She can’t understand his devotion, can’t seem to be happy without him, and can’t stop herself from interrupting his mission. Intending to propose, she botches the question and leaves heartbroken.

Andrew is deeply in love with her but doesn’t react fast enough to prevent a tragedy.

Caught in the cross hairs of the private war between her French Intelligence agent mother and a deadly North Korean unit of kidnappers, Nicole becomes collateral damage.

Can her well-meaning grandmother give her a second chance to choose truth as well as love so she can heal from a #MeToo secret with the power to destroy her? Or will her mother’s enemies exact the final revenge?

Unexpected stories with the details of life's emotions written by an award-winning author who speaks to your soul.

One to five minute reads that may last a lifetime in your heart and mind.

Enter a flow state as you read the uplifting imagery and strong prose today.

The book is arranged by the season each entry is set during and includes, among many others, a touching account of the May 22^nd, 2011 Joplin Tornado, a poem about the haunted Kendrick House in Carthage, Missouri, several sweet romances, and two science fiction short stories. There are a total of eighteen entries for you to enjoy!

Young Ashlyn of Cairn doesn't dream of war. Her village sits at the farthest point from the battlefront. Thus, rumors of the crown princess's all-female army seldom reach her ears.

Ashlyn's fate has been set from birth. She will marry her third cousin Rupert and be a cobbler's wife. That's a vastly better situation than being a washer woman's daughter.

If only the taxes weren't due and Ashlyn's father hadn't gambled away her mother's meager earnings, then a humble girl might never have been set on the path to aid the return of the Modutan Empire.

Zin Yarl has worked her whole life to make something of herself, and today she's finally done it. She's graduating from the Space Academy with top honors.

Just her luck, pirates kidnap her and ruin all her plans. How can this possibly be a good thing?

"Matriculation" was originally published in the award-winning anthology Seasons of the Four States in December of 2019.

Easy-going Athena Westwood has an obsession. She's searching for the mythical Earth's Eye. Ancient clues lead her through forbidden areas of the Southern Utah desert.

Driven by a need to know, she risks jail time to uncover the final trail markers in Arches National Park. Will she discover a portal through time? Or will an in-the-know park ranger succeed in standing in her way?

What if solving a puzzle box in a Hawaiian pawn shop made you the target of a ruthless treasure hunter seeking King Kamehameha’s lost tomb?

Astronomer Kimberly Halley and MBA Ammon Hardy just graduated from college. Her grandmother has set them up on a blind date vacation. No one could have foreseen that the trip might cost them their lives. Regardless, it may be worth the risk if they fall in love.