Literary Suspense | 86,000 words

Comparable Titles: THE FAVORITES · THE GLASS HOTEL · AFTER STORY

Once a rising star, Raven Alberti has left behind her Hollywood career to raise her children in her husband’s small hometown on the Arkansas-Oklahoma border. Craving a quiet life, she struggles to find her role in a town that identifies her with the fantasy seductress she played in a long-running HBO series. When a kindred spirit emerges from the chorus—twenty-one-year-old Jesse Gatlin, the town’s golden boy, a former Olympic hopeful grieving the loss of his dream—Raven’s search for authenticity evolves into a roleplaying therapy that mourns the normal childhood they never had and lands them an intense friendship.

One morning, amid a rash of local burglaries and while Raven’s husband, Wolfe, is out of town, an intruder breaks into their home. Terrified and unaware of the intruder’s identity, Raven fires Wolfe’s Glock, only to discover Jesse bleeding on the floor of her daughter’s bedroom. The fallout is devastating: for Jesse, who is now in a coma; for Raven, who is unable to remember pulling the trigger; for her two daughters, who were present during the tragedy; and for Wolfe, who must battle feelings both of suspicion and guilt.

As law enforcement, lawyers, and locals rush in to determine culpability, secrets bleed all around—a decades-old rivalry between two families, Jesse’s hidden prescription opioid addiction, Wolfe’s simmering resentments, and a dangerously blurred relationship built on roleplaying, grief, and obsession. With her family fracturing and her public image in freefall, Raven must decide how far she’ll go and who she’ll pretend to be to reassemble her life, or even protect what’s left.

(89,000 words)

A speculative retelling of Great Expectations, set in a world thirsting for truth but obsessed with image.

With a blend of magic realism and a literary voice, UNMET follows an aspiring journalist whose supernatural pact with a shadowy fugitive collides with her love for the daughter of a billionaire whose buried secrets could cost her everything. 

In a future recovering from climate collapse and the downfall of AI, Suri Phillips wants to help society rebuild around the concept of absolute Truth by becoming a journalist. At thirteen, Suri secretly saves the life of a mysterious fugitive who offers her a challenge: become a bestselling author by twenty-five and gain a supernatural form of immortality—the revival of her consciousness every time someone reads her work. To prove he’s real, he gives her the ability to hear readers’ thoughts while they engage with her writing. An ocean of primary sources could be hers if she harnesses the power of language and builds a massive readership.

As Suri comes of age, her ambition draws her into the orbit of billionaire powerbroker Hatshepsut Avis, who is in the process of shaping her adopted daughter, Elle, into the next political icon. A staged romance between Suri and Elle ignites a media frenzy, while a private love quietly blooms beneath it.

But the more Suri leans into her gift, the more she uncovers: the fugitive’s link between their lives, Elle’s shocking origins, and the terrifying price of the legacy she’s being groomed to uphold. When everything collapses, Suri faces the ultimate choice: protect her future, save the woman she loves, or risk the immortality she’s fought for.

Literary Fiction | 99,000 words

Comparable Titles: THE PAPER PALACE · LOST AND WANTED

When two strangers lose their partners in the same metro crash, grief intertwines their

lives—forcing them to choose between holding on to the past and daring to begin again.

Told in alternating perspectives, Cora and Justin meet while waiting at the scene of a D.C.

metro crash that kills twelve people—including Cora’s husband and Justin’s girlfriend. In a

year of grief and healing, they dig into the mysteries of the tragedy, take a road trip through

two family sagas, and navigate a love no one understands but them. However, grief pulls

them in different directions: Cora’s quest takes her to a crash survivor in the slums of

Baltimore and a collaborative project that sets their world on fire, and Justin’s past leads him

to his estranged mother on the shores of Lake Michigan. When old demons and new dangers

surface, Justin wants to find a way back to normal life with Cora, and she must choose

between two men—one dead, whose memory she still clings to, and one alive, who offers a

chance to move on. Inspired by my experience losing my uncle, a World Champion Aerobatic

Pilot who fatally crashed during an airshow, this novel explores how sudden loss violently

divides our lives into the then and the now—and how love survives in the aftermath.