Mightier Than Magic
In a world ruled by magic, eighteen-year-old Katie is a princess who has none.
Katie is so shy that her mother, the queen, mockingly calls her ‘Mouse.’ Her only real talent is getting around her mother’s castle unnoticed.
Alone and unloved, she befriends Alaric, the foreign mage-king who is her mother’s enemy and prisoner. Cleaved from his magic and hoping to negotiate for his release and for a way to end the long, brutal war between the two kingdoms, Alaric negotiates a settlement with the queen: He must marry one of her daughters with magical abilities. Not magicless Katie. The agreement is sworn on an oathstone. To be forsworn is to die.
When Alaric teases the tiniest bit of magic from Katie and announces that he will marry only her, the queen is livid. In mortal danger, Katie and Alaric flee for their lives.
Can Katie’s blossoming magical ability bring an end to the war—or will it destroy Alaric and all she loves?
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Sons of Aran series
Alien Son
When his ship leaves Aran, Mikel, an impetuous young scientist, stays behind to learn more about the planet of his father’s birth. Here he meets the lovely and mysterious time-traveling historian Aiana, and falls in love with her. Aiana dares not reciprocate; she knows Mikel’s future has no place for her. Instead, she must convince Mikel to return to Earth in order to save Aran. But she cannot reveal the role he will play in the events that shape Earth itself—a role that compromises his integrity and his love.
Time travel on both a large and a personal scale twists through Alien Son as Mikel and Aiana struggle to find a future in which they can realize both their destinies together.
Alien Son won second place in the 2018 Joyce Henderson contest and third place in the 2020 Orange Rose contest.
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Saving Aran
Avatar meets Shadow and Bone in this fantastic tale of lovers torn asunder amid a planet’s growing danger.
Winner of the coveted Editors’ Choice award at the 2023 BooksShelf Writing Contest!
When his best friend Dilia is abducted, slum-raised Cort is thrown into conflict with the starmen from Earth who control his planet and are pillaging its primeval forests. Armed only with his determination and his father’s bone knife, Cort will stop at nothing to rescue Dilia and save his planet–even if he has to destroy the Earthers’ base to do it.
Saving Aran has it all: action and adventure; a love story; a cold-hearted villain; personable animals; and even an amiable alien.
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An Eden novella:
A Warrior of Eden
All fourteen-year-old Karoline wants is a chance to join Eden’s resistance and help the planet like her famous father did, but her stepfather insists on treating her like a child. Now, a cohort of the army serving Eden’s oppressor is heading toward Karoline’s village. Her stepfather is off to investigate—or so he says.
Karoline heads out on her own to see what he’s up to. She never expected to find murder and treason awaiting, with only the narrowest chance of escape.
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Ascent of Eden series
Freeing Eden
He wants to save planet Eden. She just wants to save him.
All trader Zara wanted was to help Kell, a clone, retrieve his maker’s memories, and discover who he really is. The conflict-torn planet Eden was supposed to be just a stop en route, but Kell is recognized as Swifthammer—Eden’s now-deceased resistance leader.
As the great man’s memories return to him, Kell assumes Swifthammer’s role, opposing the planet’s foreign warlord Reuel. But Reuel’s schemes take a dangerous turn when Kell begins to experience Reuel’s memories, and is haunted by the idea that the warlord is not as evil as the resistance believes.
As Kell struggles between the two destinies he was created for, Zara needs him to find the path that is his own. For only then can they bring peace to Eden and build a lasting future together.
Freeing Eden is a 2018 finalist for the prestigious Golden Heart® award from the Romance Writers of America. Read Freeing Eden on Kindle Unlimited or get Freeing Eden on paperback at Amazon.com.
The Last Lord of Eden
Nominal warlord of the wealthy planet Eden, Kell wants a family of his own. With his adoption he has a chance of making this dream come true. But his uncle, head of that family, will stop at nothing to destroy Kell and claim the hegemony of Eden for himself and his sons. Only Zara stands between Kell and the ugly demise his uncle has in mind.
Kell is determine to free Eden of the conflict that generations of outside warlords have inflicted on it. But it’s the only source of a mind-enhancing and wildly addictive drug used by influential leaders of government and business. Eden can preserve its fragile independence only by continuing to meet the ever-increasing demand for this drug. When the powerful leader of the Senate’s drug-regulating Negotiations Management Committee joins forces with Kell’s uncle, Eden’s future and Kell’s are thrown into jeopardy.
Ultimately, Kell is forced to choose between the family he longs for, the planet he calls home, and the woman he loves. Even Zara may not be able to save him now!
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Non-Fiction
Mission and Place: Strengthening Learning and Community through Campus Design
With two subject-matter-experts, I am coauthor of this groundbreaking nonfiction book.
Having worked for over sixty colleges and universities and visited hundreds more in careers as institutional planners and designers, the authors have found that in most cases, the physical campus mirrors the issues an institution faces. Mission and Place shows how institutions of higher education can address important strategic issues through campus design and planning and how at the same time they can create an enduring legacy. It presents a visionary mission-based framework that the trustees, presidents, and senior administrators of today’s colleges and universities, and their design and planning consultants, can use in overall campus planning and design decisions
Published by the American Council on Education and available through this link at amazon.com. ISBN: 0-275-98123-1.