Works in Progress
VICTORY STUMBLES
Grief-stricken, twelve-year-old Sarah must abandon her dog to obey her alcoholic father, but she leaves the dog with the grandfather-like neighbor Dad blames for Mom’s death.
ZERO’S HERO
Lonely, thirteen-year-old Patrick—blamed for his parents’ divorce and abandoned by his grandparents—feels powerless to protect his unloving mom from her new security officer boyfriend.
YOU NEVER KNOW
THE LAST TIME
Fourteen-year-old Evelyn learns to pilot hot air balloons with her grandfather and discovers in the air that he has undiagnosed Alzheimer’s Disease.
SCRAPS
Sixteen-year-old Evelyn finds her biological father to fulfill her grandfather’s dying wish, but Dad’s life is too full for one more kid, especially the one he ignored.
LEAVE ME A NOTE
Emotionally-gutted sixteen-year-old Smudge feels responsible for her sister’s disappearance, but the only cold-case clues are piano notes Smudge must untangle to find her sister’s killer.
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