EVERYTHING TURNS TO GOLD
young adult // coming-of-age, family-drama
76,000+ words (unpublished)
After her mother dies in a tragic car accident, seventeen-year-old Joni is uprooted and sent to live in a small lakeside town with her estranged other mother. Navigating grief, fractured family ties, and the intoxicating but dangerous pull of a charismatic girl named Callie, Joni must confront the pain she’s been running from—and learn to forgive others and herself to begin healing.
HOME, I SHOULD THINK
new adult // contemporary, family-drama
90,000+ words (unpublished)
At twenty-three, Elliott Arroyo is already burnt out, balancing full-time work, uninsured mental health care, and the constant weight of raising her two younger sisters. But when Theo steps into her self-defense class, Elliott’s carefully guarded world begins to crack open—forcing her to question what it means to build a life that’s hers, not just theirs.
STAND BY WITHOUT FLINCHING
young adult // post-apocalyptic
94,000+ words (unpublished)
When the government chooses mass extermination over a cure, seventeen-year-old Mattie must cross 2,000 miles of bombed cities and infected monsters to reach her foster mother in a hidden quarantine zone. But survival comes with a cost, and getting to safety will mean risking the people who’ve become her only reason to keep going.
THE RIP
young adult // sports-drama, coming-of-age
72,000+ words (unpublished)
After an impulsive reaction gets her expelled, fifteen-year-old Antonia and her twin brother, Mateo, are sent to a boarding school in another state under the condition that they join the swim team. As the suppressed trauma of their late-grandfather’s abusive coaching begins to bubble to the surface, Antonia finds unexpected refuge—and first love—with her roommate Mari, discovering light and hope in the most unexpected currents.
WYLIE'S DRAW
adult fiction // western, historical
87,000+ words (unpublished)
After surviving her family’s massacre, Willa Talbot sheds her past and assumes a new identity as Wylie, a gunslinger fighting to outrun a forced marriage and reclaim her freedom in the coastal town of Golden, Texas. As she rises through deadly duels and forms an unexpected bond with her employer’s daughter, Wylie must face the cost of freedom and the truths she’s long buried.