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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