Middle School Books
At the heart of my middle grade stories are young people learning who they are when the world shifts beneath them. Whether decoding ancient mysteries, protecting a fragile friendship, or searching for a missing parent, my characters discover that courage is rarely loud — it is steady, compassionate, and chosen again and again. These books are for readers who believe questions matter, kindness counts, and even the quietest kids can change the world.
Who We Are: Heroes & Bullies
After losing her beloved grandfather, thirteen-year-old Missy Lou Button faces her first birthday without the man who taught her what it means to be brave. Living above her family’s old button factory in a quiet small town, Missy Lou finds comfort in fishing by the creek, saving memories in jars of buttons, and protecting her best friend C.E., who dreams of being Superman but struggles to stand up to bullies.
As family secrets surface and childhood innocence begins to shift,
Missy Lou discovers that heroism isn’t about capes or comic books — it’s about compassion, courage, and choosing who you will become when life tests you.
A tender coming-of-age story about grief, friendship, and finding strength in unexpected places, Who We Are reminds readers that the bravest journeys happen within.
The Red Balloon
Launching SOON! When twelve-year-old Tabitha notices the quiet girl across the street — a foster child named Trudy who never fully unpacks — she ties a bright red paper balloon between their bedroom windows and slips a note inside: I’d like to be your friend.
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What begins as a simple exchange of messages becomes something deeper — a lifeline stretched across a laundry line. Through drawings, music, and small acts of courage, the two girls learn how to stand beside one another in a world that is not always kind. As whispers spread, assumptions sting, and the word temporary hangs heavy in the air, Tabitha discovers that bravery isn’t loud — it’s choosing to stay, to notice, and to speak when silence would be easier.
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Tender and luminous, The Red Balloon is a story about friendship, belonging, and the quiet power of showing up for someone who might not stay — but matters all the same.
The 108 Code
Launching SOON! When thirteen-year-old code-breaking prodigy Samson Caldwell discovers his mother has vanished under suspicious circumstances, he uncovers a leather-bound journal filled with ancient ciphers, sacred geometry, and one repeating number: 108. The trail leads from a hidden cave beneath Utah’s Timpanogos Mountains to Kyoto, Japan—where Sakura Singh, a blind martial artist who hears the world in vibrations, has been feeling a mysterious hum growing stronger by the day.
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Three faith traditions. Three sacred sites. One door between worlds.
As reality itself begins to thin and a shadowy group known as the Threshold Society closes in, Samson and Sakura must decipher a code older than history—before the Mist fully opens and what was lost comes through.
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Blending mathematics, mythology, and heart-stopping adventure, The 108 Code is a high-stakes fantasy about belief, courage, and the hidden patterns that connect us across worlds.
Young Adult Fiction
At the heart of my Young Adult fiction are young people learning how to live truthfully in complicated worlds. Whether navigating fractured families, historical legacies, shifting identities, or moral crossroads, my characters discover that courage is not loud — it is steady, intentional, and sometimes defiant. These are stories about reclamation, responsibility, and the power of choosing who you will become.
Dear Miss Posie
Coming Soon! An Amish girl walks into the internet. What happens next will change everything she thought she knew about herself.
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When Rumspringa takes her to Chicago, she unexpectedly becomes the anonymous voice behind “Miss Posie,” an online advice column run by ambitious media strategist Garrett Bronson.
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What begins as an experiment quickly goes viral. Ruth’s plainspoken honesty—shaped by a life lived without the internet—cuts through the noise of modern life, and strangers everywhere begin writing to her about love, faith, identity, and belonging.
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But the internet never keeps secrets for long. As Miss Posie’s influence grows, Ruth’s two worlds collide. When her identity is exposed, drawing her family, her community, and her twin sibling’s hidden truth into the spotlight, Ruth must decide what her voice is truly meant for—and where she belongs.
Beautiful Oddities
Coming Soon! For nearly two centuries, the women in Clara Wishbone’s family have inherited the same strange legacy: a single wish. Wealth, love, the sea, a child—each wish granted, each woman losing everything in return.
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When fifteen-year-old Clara begins noticing strange signs in her quiet coastal town of Morro Bay—a watchful seal in the harbor, a moth at her window, and a hidden journal from her grandmother—she discovers the truth her family has buried for generations.
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The women in her bloodline do not simply die. Bound to the wishes that shaped their lives, they remain behind as animals, watching their daughters from the edges of the world.
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Now the choice belongs to Clara. And for the first time in nearly two hundred years, one daughter must decide not to wish—because breaking the curse means letting go of everything she loves.
Rewoven Fairytales: Hidden Histories of Women
These novels reimagine classic fairytales through the lens of erased women’s history. Set against real historical backdrops—witch trials, suppressed scholarship, forgotten resistance movements—each story reframes myth as memory. The girls once cast as villains, witches, temptresses, or footnotes step forward as thinkers, healers, rebels, and truth tellers. Lyrical yet grounded in research, these stories explore power, blame, survival, and reclamation—asking what might have happened if the “wicked” woman had been allowed to speak.
The Weaver and the Wolf
In the Scottish Borders, circa 1700, the village of Greythorn survives on thread—and on silence.
Greythorn women learn early that there are truths you do not speak aloud: who watches, who takes, who disappears. When accusations of witchcraft begin to spread through the village, silence becomes dangerous—and remembering becomes an act of defiance.
Rowan MacRae is a loom girl raised by her grandmother, Elspeth, a weaver whose hands hold more than cloth. As women are taken and erased by Church and court alike, Rowan discovers that the loom itself holds a hidden language. Patterns stitched into hems and seams carry warnings, names, escape routes, and testimonies, messages passed quietly from woman to woman when speaking could mean death. What begins as survival becomes resistance. What begins as one girl becomes a network.
Reimagining “Little Red Riding Hood” through the lens of historical persecution and collective memory, The Weaver and the Wolf is a dark, lyrical fairy tale about women who refuse to vanish quietly. It is a story of thread as witness, cloth as record, and community as protection—a reminder that while wolves may hunt alone, women survive together—and a companion to The Blame: A Hidden History of Heresy, Genius, and the Violence of Erasure, exploring what endured after accusation.
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The Name the Earth Remembered
Launching SOON! A girl too small to matter is taken from her homeland—and discovers the earth remembers her name.
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When Mina is removed from her village and sent to a rigid boarding school designed to erase her identity, she begins to shrink. Her language is forbidden. Her hair is cut. Her name is replaced with one written in ink she does not recognize.
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But beneath the school’s floors, in forgotten spaces and root-dark places, Mina discovers she is not alone. Guided by quiet signs, ancestral memory, and the land itself, she learns to carry what cannot be taken—songs, patterns, and the truth of who she is.
As resistance grows in whispers and threads, Mina must choose whether remembering is enough—or whether it is time to return home.
The Name the Earth Remembered is a lyrical reimagining of Thumbelina, rooted in the historical reality of Indigenous child removal during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a story of survival, reclamation, and the enduring power of memory and companion to the Hidden History of Women's Series Volume Women & Culture: The Americas and Beyond - Hidden Narratives of Power, Preservation, and Reclamation.​
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The Match Girl's Uprising
Launching SOON! Chicago, 1900. Ellie has always known she is replaceable.
At fifteen, she scrapes matchsticks in a factory thick with white phosphorus dust — paid by the piece, fined for mistakes, and told that illness is weakness. When her friend Mary’s jaw begins to rot from chemical exposure, the factory calls it hysteria. When wages are docked and girls are dismissed, they are told to be grateful for work at all.
But Ellie knows something the factory owners have forgotten:
The girls make the matches.
And matches make fire.
Inspired by real labor protests and the fight to end white phosphorus poisoning, The Match Girl’s Uprising reimagines the world of Cinderella and The Little Match Girl inside the industrial streets of Progressive Era Chicago.
A story of fire, factory girls, and the courage to grow old, this novel honors the young workers whose invisible labor helped ignite workplace reform.
Strike a spark. Save a girl and a companion to Women for Change: Hidden Histories of Power and Resistance, exploring women through history, who paved the way for equality and change.
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Rewoven Fairytales: Hidden Histories of War
These companion novels retell beloved fairytales within the landscapes of real wars—from home fronts to battlefields—centering the children, caretakers, laborers, and spiritual guardians history often overlooks. Myth becomes a vessel for memory as fairy motifs intertwine with archives, letters, and lived experience. These stories do not romanticize war; they illuminate the human cost, resilience, and quiet courage beneath it. Each novel stands alone as fiction while echoing the deeper historical truths explored in the Hidden Histories of War series.
Wendy's Home for Lost Boys
Launching SOON! In Edwardian London, Wendy Panning is a nurse, a wife, and a mother who believes fiercely in keeping watch. When her young son Peter vanishes through an open nursery window one winter night, the world tells Wendy what it always tells grieving mothers: that she must accept the loss, close the window, and move on. She refuses.
When Peter returns, changed by wherever he has been, Wendy learns that rescue does not end suffering. It only reshapes it.
When playwright J.M. Barrie enters their lives, Peter's story begins to transform into myth—one that the world will celebrate, misunderstand, and sanitize.
As Europe edges toward war and childhood innocence becomes another casualty, Peter enlists among thousands of underage boys who flew toward thunder and never came back. Wendy's Home for Lost Boys reframes a beloved fairy tale into a meditation on grief, motherhood, memory, and moral courage—asking what it truly means to care for the lost and whether love can be both fierce enough to hold on and brave enough to let go—a companion to Known Unto Us: A Hidden History of War's Caretakers in the Hidden History of War Series.
The Twelve Who Walked by Moonlight
Launching SOON! In war-torn Virginia during the American Civil War, the Whitaker sisters are known for one unsettling mystery: every morning their shoes are worn through to the soles, though no one has ever seen them leave the house at night.
There are twelve sisters bound by a secret oath—and a thirteenth girl, Ruth, who was never meant to be counted.
Beneath their crumbling estate lies a network of hidden tunnels once used by freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. By night, the sisters move through these passages to deliver clandestine medical care to wounded soldiers from both sides of the war, bury the forgotten dead, and keep records history would otherwise erase.
But when a wounded Union scout begins to uncover their secret, suspicion grows and mercy itself is placed on trial.
The Twelve Who Walked by Moonlight is a lyrical reimagining of The Twelve Dancing Princesses, revealing the hidden labor of women who carried compassion through the darkness of war.
Where the Poppies Grow
Launching SOON! In the shattered fields of Ypres, Belgium, in 1919, the war has ended—but the land has not yet recovered.
Fifteen-year-old Jack Ashvale stands in soil poisoned by artillery and gas, holding the last seeds his mother saved before she died. When a mysterious Trader offers beans that grow with impossible speed, Jack plants one in desperation. What rises from the wounded earth is a towering vine—beautiful, powerful, and dangerously hungry.
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High above the ruined city, Jack and his fiercely determined friend Jillian discover a forgotten wartime seed vault—proof that recovery was meant to be careful, patient work, not rapid extraction. As their village faces pressure to embrace quick profit and industrial agriculture, Jack must decide what kind of future the land deserves.
With sunflowers planted in a golden ring and the soil slowly learning how to breathe again, Jack discovers that real strength does not come from conquering giants or climbing into the sky. It comes from tending the ground beneath our feet.
Where the Poppies Took Root is a lyrical eco-myth inspired by the real rebuilding of post–World War I Ypres—a story about resilience, seed sovereignty, and the quiet courage it takes to choose roots over speed.