Leigh Enderi thought she would be safe behind Dogton’s gates. . . but her fight for survival has only begun. The Bloom is over and Dogton is left buried by the monstrous storm that swept across the Shy’war-Anquai desert. With Neiro Preciaus presumed dead and the legendary scout, Kaitar Besh, missing, the town totters on […]

Special Agent Rae Hatting has been sent to a small town in Colorado to investigate the disappearance of young girls from several surrounding states. What she finds is not at all what she expected. Initially submitted to the “Bloody Scotland” crime short story contest in 2014.

Illumination Book Awards Winner Her family’s voyage from South Carolina turns ugly when the ship’s captain maroons Lilyan and her family on an island along North Carolina’s Outer Banks. There, the family is captured by pirates and taken to a secret island hideout where they witness a mock trial and a hanging. Forced to rebuff […]

“In 1981, I became the proud possessor of my first farm, comprising eighty-four acres (‘more or less’) in Loudoun County, Virginia. Besides the property, the transaction included an array of tractors and specialized equipment for making hay and harvesting corn, as well as a small starter herd of Hereford cows. … It would be a […]