Fiction

When three young couples decide it’s time to move forward in their relationships— from “special friends” to newlyweds—they’re faced with a rather bureaucratic process of petitions, directives, and communal obligations. There’s a chance the committee of church elders may vote against the marriage request, or that the mandated Period of Separation might result in someone losing interest and boarding the train for the Outside World. For one bride’s father, however, the process is even more complicated than any of them know. As an appointed elder and businessman, he’s forced to consider the complications and consequences of adhering to “the old ways” while maintaining the sanctity of tradition. Together with his fellow elders, he must answer the multitude of questions growing louder among this quiet cluster of villages in rural Iowa—questions that will force the Inspirationist community to see that change doesn’t just mean letting go and moving on... ...it also means surviving.

For centuries, the gods have chosen a king from the order of priests who dedicate their lives to serving them. So when the gods choose Ethyr to be king, a peasant farmer from the farthest edge of the kingdom, it upends his life without warning and thrusts him into a world that is the opposite of everything he’s ever known: spoiled with luxury and riches beyond his wildest imaginings, but trapped in a gilded cage of obligation. As Ethyr does his best to please the gods and understand the society he’s been forced into, he begins to realize there is more to the gods’ choice than hedonistic preference. Now he must navigate the treachery and deception of slippery palace politics, all while trying to unravel the enigmatic motives of the gods who made him king.

Exiled fae lord Lancelot never thought he would make it back to the Mist Lands and his ancestral home. Now that the magical realm of Avalon has ended his exile, he’s not losing out on the chance to win his throne back from his power-hungry brother, Aberlin. He just needs to convince his former ally, King Arthur, that backing Lance’s power play is the right decision. But King Arthur and his knights are not enamored with the idea of another fae war. Despite Lancelot helping them defeat the fae tyrant Mordred, Arthur refuses to provide military support. With the help of his police partner, Gwen, Lance convinces Arthur to send an armed force to fight Aberlin. Progress is made to push back enemy forces until tragedy strikes. Aberlin kidnaps Gwen. Knowing his brother’s twisted nature, Lance has only a small window in which to save the woman he secretly loves. But with the other two fae courts looking for weaknesses to exploit and his alliance with King Arthur crumbling, Lance isn’t sure who he can turn to or trust. Now Lance is on a mission to rescue Gwen and prove to the other fae courts that he is a worthy ruler and powerful enough to rebuff their invasion. Between a harrowing rescue mission and then an epic quest, Lance must decide if he will also fight for a relationship with Gwen after her romance with the human knight Orin falls apart. If Lance cannot ascend to the throne and convince the other fae courts of his power, then the Mist Lands will devolve into a full civil war. Mortals and fae alike will bleed. Lance must stop the looming conflict; otherwise, his people will be destroyed, and he will lose any chance to love the woman he so desperately wants.

Aliens invade Earth in November 2051. A war sparks in every major city across the globe. The real story starts two years later; a peace accord has been signed, and the aliens all but announce that they are here to stay. We Are Earth: Still Standing follows the Appage family and their community in Crete, a small American town that symbolizes human resistance. Twelve-year-old prodigy Zen Appage is uprooted from her home, her family, her friends and sent to Elystra, the Altiad command center on Earth. Thousands of miles away, her father, Neil runs a rebellion while her brother, seventeen-year-old Charlie navigates caves and builds an underground base for the resistance. The Altiad envoy Shea says Zen is gifted. That humanity has promise. That together they can build something better. Maybe they can even find a lasting peace. Zen knows her father is out there, and he's coming for the Altiad eventually. What she doesn't know is whether she'll still be the daughter he lost, or something the occupation made that he won't recognize. More importantly, when the war between them finally explodes, will she know which side she's on?

A romantic road trip with my best friend? Braxton I’ve always been the designated friend to Hadley Dawson, and I’d do myself good to remember that. Heck, I’m only on this road trip because she broke up with her boyfriend. But can I confess something? I’m in love with my best friend, and I have been for twenty years. This romantic road trip to her friend’s destination wedding is the perfect opportunity to make her see me as more than her loyal Labrador and more like the type of lover she swoons over in those romantic suspense books she reads. Hadley I thought I’d found the one, then he cheated. So now I’m stuck going to a southern wedding ALONE, which is taboo in my culture. Unless… I ask my best friend, whom I’m very much attracted to but definitely do not deserve, to tag along with me. I mean, he’s never said no to being my stand-in date before. The problem? I planned this road trip to Virginia for a couple, which means one-bedroom hotels, romantic cabins, and don’t even get me started on the activities. Oh heavens, I’m toast. The Designated Friend is a best friends-to-lovers road trip Christian romance filled with faith, humor, and swoon.

When NSA quantum genius Finn Miller goes on the run after stealing proof of a global government surveillance conspiracy, he collides with Elara, a priestess from another dimension who has been magically enslaved to deliver the world's most powerful technomancer to a chaos mage intent on merging technology with ancient magic to control all realms. Though Elara fears her growing feelings for Finn are manufactured by the curse, the two forge a genuine partnership — she teaching him that magic and quantum mechanics are the same force, he helping her resist the spell's compulsion — while simultaneously exposing corruption on Earth and navigating the dimensional politics of Elysia. When the geas finally drags them both to the Realm of Shadows, Finn and Elara confront Malachi directly: Elara facing the mage who enslaved and violated her while Finn turns the chaos sea's own quantum energy against him. Elara's act of facing her tormentor breaks the curse at last, Malachi is cast through an unstable portal to Earth's Indian Ocean, and Finn and Elara return to the Moon Goddess temple — fugitive and priestess now partners in both worlds — as the government conspiracy begins to unravel and a dangerous sorcerer starts adapting his powers to a new world. If The Magicians and Snowden fell through a portal together, they'd land here: a fugitive NSA genius and a magically enslaved priestess discovering that quantum physics and ancient magic are two names for the same truth — and that the most dangerous enemy isn't the chaos mage trying to rule every dimension. It's the question neither of them can answer: Can you love freely when your soul belongs to someone else?

Rose Britton has spent years hiding in plain sight. By day, she is a technical researcher at GenExt, a powerful genetics corporation with too many locked files, black-budget projects, and questions no one wants answered. By night, she is trying to understand why her empathic abilities are changing, why the headaches are getting worse, and why she feels increasingly certain someone is watching her. Then she literally runs into Jake Martino. Jake is a mutant, a hacker, and a member of Helix, the underground network GenExt calls a terrorist threat. To the people Helix rescues from raids, hides in safe-houses, and helps disappear, it is something else: a lifeline. Jake can phase through walls, stop bullets, and spot patterns other people miss. Unfortunately for Rose, he quickly notices that there is far more to her than she admits. Rose knows she should stay away from him. Contact with Helix could cost her the access she needs at GenExt, and perhaps much more. But Jake is kind, stubborn, and far harder to dismiss than he should be. As cautious friendship grows between them, Rose is drawn deeper into GenExt's hidden world. Instead of punishing her for meeting Jake, GenExt recruits her into the Genetic Registration Service, a secret operation that tracks, controls, and "neutralizes" people with mutations. Trapped inside the organization hunting people like Jake, Rose begins anonymously warning Helix about incoming raids. Every warning protects lives. Every lie tightens the trap. When a raid forces Rose to reveal what she is, the fragile life she built fractures. Helix discovers she has been working for the GRS. GenExt discovers she is more valuable than it ever suspected. And a shadowy corporation connected to Rose's past begins closing in. Rose may hold the key to a breakthrough that could save Helix's unstable mutants, or make her the most valuable research subject in the world. In Plain Sight is a character-driven science fiction thriller of corporate conspiracy, superpowered resistance, slow-build romantic tension, and found family. It is the first novel in the Helix Codex Chameleon Protocol series, where being seen can be as dangerous as being found.