Meryton High
YA Fiction
Status: Available on Amazon in paperback and for Kindle.
Best friends Ivy and Elle never expected change to come to Meryton High. The brink of junior year seemed to promise only the familiar juggling of classes, homework, and daily routines. But when three new students arrive in town, Ivy and Elle find themselves entangled in a drama that might take the whole year to untangle.
Told from the perspectives of two high school girls, this retelling of Pride and Prejudice brings Jane Austen’s classic story of love and friendship to life in the modern world. From first impressions and fights to love and forgiveness, Meryton High shows that lessons from two hundred years ago just might be relevant today.
I Am the North
Speculative Fiction
Status: In revision/on hold
Sitka Frost is not one to settle.
At nineteen, Sitka becomes the first Northerner to study at the prestigious academy in Sarona in over a hundred years. On an ambitious mission to reunite the land’s fractured regions while concealing her peculiar talents, Sitka’s dreams are thrust aside when she becomes a suspect in a mysterious death. Suddenly, she finds herself the subject of a scrutiny that could jeopardize not only her hidden gifts, but the future of the North.
Seventeen-year-old Tanya Kedrov wanted nothing more than to pass her senior year research class.
Fueled by an obsession with the disappearance of her sister, Tanya sets out to find a connection among Iron County’s history of disappearances. Her research leads her to a secret hidden in the deep of Minnesota’s wilderness, a secret no one else will believe. And when Tanya encounters the charismatic Sitka Frost, she finds herself caught between two worlds and in the thick web of ties that binds them together.
The Last Song of Summer
Historical Fiction
Status: Drafting
June 1936.
Maggie Forsberg is used to summers at her family’s lodge in northern Minnesota, but she’s not used to dreading them.
A hard and cold winter has wreaked havoc on her family, and the summer promises to be a dreary blend of caring for her brother’s ailing health while avoiding her father’s increasingly turbulent mood swings. But when a fight at home leads thirteen-year-old Maggie into the forest on the first day of summer, she meets Mikael, a friend who transforms not only Maggie’s summer but alters the course of her future.
The Last Song of Summer is a coming-of-age tale that explores the precarious balance of family ties, small-town superstition, and what happens when you can’t trust your own mind.
