Novels

Down East Blues - 2024

Music was Jonathan Briscoe’s life until his best friend and sax player overdosed. When Alvin died, the music died with him. Briscoe walked away from it all.

     But the music wouldn’t let him go.

     Now he’s trying to put the band together again. First, he must settle an old score with his mercenary record label and sort out a complex romance involving two sisters. It won’t be easy, but he’ll pay any price to find his way back to the music.

Healing River - 2012

    It all began innocently with a dying man grasping at faith, hoping to steady himself for whatever came after death. What happened next was beyond anyone's imagination.

    At the age of fifty-seven, Luther was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given only a few months to live. Family members say he took the news as though it was a message he had been expecting for a long time. 

   Perhaps it was too late to make amends for the life he had led, but maybe it was not too late to seek God's mercy.

Home to the Mountains - 2015

     Rafford Brown is empty, alone, and haunted by the death of his four-year-old daughter. He seeks refuge in the Adirondack Mountains where he meets a remarkable widow and her family. To his surprise, he finds a second chance at life--a life he was certain had passed him by.

     In the wonder of an Adirondack winter, with the help of a rare winter fawn, he discovers what it means to come home to the mountains. 

I Once Was Lost - 2016

     Jesse Tobias has a gift - he knows things about dogs. As a child, other children teased him and called him "dog boy". As an adult, he is one of the top search and rescue dog handlers and trainers in the country. 

     Ironically, in searching for others who are lost, Jesse finds himself - the truth about his life, about how he came to be abandoned at birth, about his family. Most of all, he finds hope for his future.

If I Should Rise - 2022

    Life in the Adirondack Mountains of 1901 is not easy for Noahjohn Russell. The woman he loves suffers from consumption. His closest friends, the son of a slave and a native Akwesasne family are targeted by a corrupt and bigoted lawman. And now the family of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt depend on him to protect them from assassins.

   It’s more than any one man can do. His only hope is to rely on his friends just as they rely on him.  

The Mayor of 

Pudding Hill - 2022

    Albie Albertson, known as the Mayor of Pudding Hill, has lived 100 years in his beloved Nova Scotia. He’s fished and lobstered, crewed aboard the iconic Bluenose, rescued miners in Springhill, weathered Hurricane Ginny, spotted the Shag Harbor UFO and comforted family members of Swissair 111. 

     If that’s not enough, his “girlfriend” claims to be a survivor of the Titanic! His life is a living history of Nova Scotia in the 20th century.

One Day More - 2019

     "One day more…"

     Three words intoned by a mysterious voice.

    Three words  heard by nine people in a hospital emergency room where a young man's life hangs in the balance.

     They all hear it.

     They all question what it means.

   They all wonder. "Is it speaking to me?"

  And, one by one, they are all changed…

  "One day more"– if you heard it, what would you do?

Relative Proof - 2023

A A simple DNA test—his daughter’s gift for his 50th birthday—leads Harrison Harper down a rabbit hole of epic proportions. Cold case criminal charges, shocking family history revelations and a child he never knew he had—who would have thought so much trouble could come from an innocent search for your family roots?

Remember Who 

You Are - 2021

3 generations, 2 families, 

1 terrible truth

Suki Hayashida's family had their home, their business and their property stolen when they were interned along with 120,000 other Japanese American citizens during WWII. Now, 75 years later, if Suki can survive gboth legal and personal attaches, she will have the opportunity to right that wrong for her family and hundreds of others. 

Seven Lives of 

Lazarus Jones - 2023

     Is a man blessed or cursed if he faces death six times and survives? Alvin "Lazarus" Jones does not know the answer to that question, he only knows life is not easy. 

     He was abandoned at birth, kidnapped as a child and stalked as an adult by followers who think he knows some secret to life. When he faces the final test of his mortality, will he risk his life again, or turn away?

Shelter from the Storm - 2020

   Lucas Barrett has it all—family, friends, success. Then one by one he loses everything. Success is taken away, friends betray him, and he is left alone. A massive storm sends his ship to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and leaves him half-dead on the Cuban shoreline. Before he can find his way home, he must decide if life is still worth living.

Truth Lies & Consequences - 2018

    Journalist Conor Jamison uncovers the biggest story of his career while sitting at the bedside of his dying grandfather. Gleaned from his grandfather’s often incoherent ramblings and augmented by his own research, Conor pieces together an incredible story – a story so unlikely, it must be true.

    His grandfather's story and the mystery it reveals leave no doubt that both truth and lies have consequences.