My Projects

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Drowning 

Novel

Status: Complete

Genre: YA contemporary fantasy

Everyone thinks Elly’s sister drowned in that crowded harbor last summer.  Elly knows she didn’t, but who will believe her? Her only proof is the mess of strange visions swirling around in her own head. Elly would do anything to avoid her parents sending her to more psychologists. But she does want her sister back. So she sets off alone, stealing a boat to get across the frigid waters to the Maine island where it all happened. 

Desperate for answers, Elly enlists the dubious help of Finn, the mysterious new boy on the island, who she soon discovers has more to do with the disappearance than he initially let on.

With a murderous gang of supernatural bounty hunters on her tail, she falls through into another world in the midst of a war. There, she is greeted by the resistance fighters as their rightful heir. Now she must confront her past, her power, and her relationship with her family. But will it be enough to fix this war-torn world and save her sister? And what if her sister doesn’t even want to be saved?

Drowning can stand alone, but has series potential. Outlines are available for books 2 and 3 of the trilogy (Burning and Falling), as well as a prequel.

The Time Between (Working Title)

Novel

Status: First Draft ~50% complete

Genre: YA SciFi (space opera)

In a galaxy far from the Milky Way, Renna's city-ship, The Zinnia, orbits the Maker station along with all of the other residential ships. The Maker is is more than just a station, it is an ancient AI who came to this galaxy in the first migration. It is the giver and sustainer of life, where all ships are repaired, all medicines synthesized, and all tech created. After generations of surviving this way, humans have become completely dependent on the Maker for survival. 

Renna's family is elevated to a higher status on the Zinnia when rumours fly that the first born son of The Cardinal's captain wants to marry her. Though excited -- they've been friends forever -- Renna's begins to feel she's just being used as a pawn to forge a political alliance with the most powerful ship in the Gal.

Her newfound popularity comes with costs, though. After attending a heavily publicized party at the Cardinal, Renna is kidnapped by the ROAM, a people who she had previously thought were only legend -- witch tales to tell kids to make them behave. After existing on the edges of society for 100 generations, they have returned and think Renna will fulfil the prophecy put forth by the one they call The Scientist. But Renna is just a normal girl...

After making a daring escape and falling in with a pack of fringe vigilantes who seem to repair their own ship, Renna begins to realize that things in the Gal might not be exactly as she had always been told. So she embarks on a series of decisions that will change the galaxy and humanity forever.

The Time Between is slated for completion Summer 2021.

Star Crossed (Working Title)

Short Story

Status: First Draft 50% complete

Genre: YA SciFi 

Cray and East live on feuding merchant ships, perpetually circling The Black, a black hole whose gravitational force is exploited to help propel the merches to their picks and drops at near-lightspeed. 

When they meet by chance at Verona Refuel and Trade, a moving station and market bazaar, they fall in love, forcing them to question their loyalties to their own family's ships. After a few chance meet-ups, they decide to leave their ships and finally be together. However, when East is confronted by a member of Cray's ship, she's forced to do something that might damage their relationship forever.

This retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet brings new adventure to an old tale.

Star Crossed is slated for completion in December 2020.