Standalones

Persuaded - A Jane Austen Variation

May 28, 2019

Enter a modernized world of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

When Anne Elliot meets Derek Worth the summer before her Senior year of high school, it’s not quite love at first time, but almost. Until things fall apart and the young couple breaks up.

Five years later, things are still falling apart. When Walter Elliot announces that he’s bankrupt, Anne finds herself without her college fund and a place to live.

With her childhood home being rented out, Anne is faced with living with her sister, Mary, and her husband, Charles. There she comes face to face with a ghost from her past and Charles’ new history tutor – Derek Worth.

Can Anne and Derek find their way back to each other or will Charles’ sisters, Etta and Isa, throw a complication or two their way?


Persuaded combines young adult, sweet new adult, and contemporary genres in this Austen variation.

The Secrets Between Us

January 20, 2023

This is not just another Hamlet.

Mark Hamilton the Third just happens to be the heir to his father’s company. But when he learns his father was killed in a car accident, his life suddenly shifts. An express delivery makes things even more complicated when his father’s journal reveals his suspicions that he was going to be murdered.

Then his mother remarries his father’s business partner a week after the funeral.

Things begin to look up when Mark meets Ophelia Graham in his Driver’s Ed class. While falling in love, they have to deal with Mark’s mother and step-father, and what they do to control Mark’s life.

Feeling off-center and out of control, Mark has to grapple with his grief, the possibility that he’s being over-medicated, and his growing feelings for Ophelia. Can he regain control before everything good in his life slips away? Will he be able to escape his controlling mother?