Fiction

Works-In-Progress

Holding My Breath, Web Fiction || Editing Chapter 5
A teenage girl falls in love with an beautiful and older man, but could he ever be interested in her? (see below for a full synopsis)

Heart for a Heart, 2nd Novel & NaNoWriMo 2010 || Draft 2 Revisions
Avery refuses to acknowledge her husband is having an affair until her coworker sees him with another woman when everything she believes about her life, herself and her marriage slips through her fingers. Too afraid to live with his infidelity yet too afraid to live without him, she tries to go on as if nothing has changed but as Cooper’s lies become more unconvincing and Avery begins to take comfort in the advances of a spirited younger man, she discovers how easy it can be to be unfaithful. Over one long, stormy summer, the fortress of Avery’s marriage crumbles around her and she finds herself walking a dangerous line between a wife and a woman.

Online Fiction

Holding my Breath || Currently Posting

Alexis is finishing her Senior year of high school but her sights are already set on college and her acceptance into the journalism program at Berkeley. That is, until her dad hires a new marketing manager at his vineyard–Sam…the most gorgeous man she’s ever seen. Over the summer, Alexis accompanies her dad and Sam as they spend their weekends sampling wine, horseback riding and talking business into the early hours of the night. Sam is seven years older than Alexis but that doesn’t matter because Alexis knows she could never catch the eye of someone so utterly breathtaking. Except that their conversations turn to more than business when her father isn’t around.

The Stretch Mark Club || Completed
Three women, four babies, one week apart. Shea, married just a few months, is still learning about life as a wife when Zoe is born, and hopes that her husband didn’t marry her just because of the two pink lines. Riley’s ex-boyfriend left her as soon as he found out she was pregnant, leaving Riley to raise Alexis on her own. Jasmine, the mother of twins, Xavier and Andrea, has been married to Hector for years but despite his initial excitement to have a baby, he refuses to change a single diaper. Follow Shea, Riley and Jasmine as they navigate the world of new motherhood and try to salvage some semblance of their womanhood.