Exiled
YOUNG ADULT/ Ages 11-16 / 178 pages / Romance / LGBTQ / Speculative Adventure Fiction
EXILED tells the story of a love affair between two teenage boys who search tirelessly for each other after being ripped apart by a maniacal father
Just out of the closet, Taku falls head over heels for Connor. However, his heart is crushed when his authoritarian father forces him to live in a secret underground biodome against his will. But Taku escapes, and while searching for a route to the surface, he discovers a deeper path that leads him to a fantastical civilization of advanced Neanderthals. They welcome him, but Taku becomes desperate to see Connor, fearing that he’ll never see him again. Meanwhile, Connor turns heaven and earth upside down to find Taku.
Amid rising nuclear tensions worldwide, Taku’s father seals the biodome, only for it to be breached by a rogue militia. Taku appeals to his Neanderthal friends to defend the dome he hates. Aboveground, Connor embarks on a sleuthing tour de force. But events in the dome collide in a chaotic mix of armed conflict and destruction. The Neanderthals defeat the militia, and Connor finds the cavern that houses the dome, but it might be too late.
Carter Chrysler and The Time Knot
MIDDLE GRADE / Ages 8-11 / 160 pages / Sci-Fi / Adventure
CARTER CHRYSLER’S bully always makes him faint. So when a junk store owner insists that Carter, age 12, travel through time to save his father, Carter reacts with typical self-doubt. He can’t imagine himself, an anxiety-ridden boy from a small, cloistered town, venturing out into a supernatural world.
Evidence of a time knot comes from photos that Mikey finds, showing an alternate version of past events. His mom, at age sixteen, is at the local firemen’s fair accompanied by a strange, suspicious boy. Carter learns that the boy in this alternate version of time murders boy murders his dad/
Carter has no choice but to time travel and save him. According to his muse, he is the only one who can do it. Ensconced in the year 1990, Carter pilots a vintage biplane carrying his unconscious father when the engines die midair. It’s a lot to expect of a wimp from a small town in Pennsylvania, but he must succeed. If he fails, he and his family will cease to exist during the next galaxy interaction. Giving it all he’s got, everything goes according to plan—until it doesn’t. Mikey will have to improvise.
Carter Chrysler and the Ancient Roman Defixiones
MIDDLE GRADE / Ages 8-11 / 210 pages / Sci-fi / Adventure / 1st Draft Completed
Cray n’ Max
MIDDLE GRADE / Ages 9-12 / 190 pages / Mystery / Work in Progress
Two twelve-year-old boys in a small town try to solve the mystery of a stolen Native American Artifact.