CHAIN OF COMMAND (Thriller/Romantic Suspense- 75,000 words)

When the President and Vice President of the United States are assassinated simultaneously on opposite sides of the country, New York Times reporter McKenzie McClendon may have discovered the unthinkable: the shootings may have been a plot to rocket the very first woman—the Speaker of the House—into the presidency.

McKenzie was at home sick the day the biggest news story in history broke, so instead of nabbing the front page cover and what would’ve been a career making story, McKenzie is demoted to writing an editorial piece about the former Navy SEAL suspected of being one of the killers.  Licking her wounds, she writes a scathing article not only trashing the suspected SEAL, but implying that his associates may also be involved in the killings.

When the accused SEAL’s partner shows up at McKenzie’s office demanding she retract the statements she made about his partner, McKenzie jumps at the chance to get the inside scoop on the suspect.  Smelling her ticket to a front page story, she promises the SEAL that if they find anything to clear his partner’s name, she’ll write about it.  If nothing else, getting to know the assassin’s partner could be a hot news story itself.

But as the SEAL and McKenzie head to California in search of the truth, they begin to uncover a shocking conspiracy: the killings were not only meant to establish the first female president of the United States, but the new President herself may be the mastermind of the scheme.

THE POWER OF FIVE (Women's fiction- 80,000 words)

Psychiatrist Kristen Barfield grew up as one of The Five, best friends who held each other together when the world threatened to tear them apart. But when Kristen was raped by a friend's father just after the girls’ high school graduation, the explosion that ensued sent each of the five friends reeling down a different path.

That is until a decade later, when those paths cross unexpectedly in the psychiatric ward.

THE QUARTER (Commercial Fiction- 80,000 words)

When five-year-old Natalie tosses a pink-painted quarter into a fountain, she’s positive she’ll recognize it when it makes its way back to her, and that will be the day her wish will come true: her parents will both be home again. 

THE COLOR OF COURAGE (Women's Fiction- 82,000 words)

Lacy Gabriel thought she was prepared for the life of a military wife, but when her husband deploys overseas, not only does Lacy never anticipate the current of fear that jolts through her veins every time she hears a knock at the door, but she also has a secret to keep. 

As the wife of a lieutenant in the Navy’s secret counterterrorism force, SEAL Team Six, not even Lacy’s immediate family can know the true nature of her husband’s work.  Even though all she wants to do is sit by the phone waiting for news, she must go on with her daily routine, because even though they are on the other side of the world, a wrong step on Lacy’s part could compromise the men.