The Yellow House Post, a novel
STATUS: Querying
For readers who enjoy:
emotionally intimate, character-driven fiction about grief, sisterhood, and the formative choices of early adulthood
readers who enjoy fast-paced, coming-of-age, college-setting stories with witty banter and strong female leads
Struggling to overcome the death of her mother and tiptoeing around a fragile relationship with her sister, twenty-year-old Amelia enrolls in art school and finds in an all-consuming friendship that forces her to confront the ways her unprocessed grief is derailing her new beginning.
For 18 months, Amelia Allen has refused to unlock her mother’s old bedroom, let alone clean it out like she promised her sister. With her deferred enrollment at the local college about to expire, she commits to reclaiming life after loss, and finally registers for classes. But moving on is hard when she is still living in her childhood home and the people she used to share it with are gone.
As Amelia is swept into the lives of two fellow art students, her grief-filled home transforms into a hub of creativity, and she finds herself falling for the two very different men. After an explosive fight with her sister leaves them estranged, her friendships tighten into an unstable co-dependence. When passionate decisions threaten to leave her isolated again, Amelia is forced to confront the consequences of her unresolved grief.
Pauline In-Between, a novel
STATUS: Post Beta Reader Revisions and Rewrites
For readers who enjoy:
character-driven fiction about mental illness and sibling bonds
fast-paced speculative fiction with humor and surprising plot twists
light portal fantasy
cult-adjacent belief systems grounded in science and a little magic
After years of being labeled as bipolar and delusional for believing her sister disappeared into a parallel universe, thirty-year-old Pauline Cooper is recruited by an unusual woman to join a secret club of people who actually believe her. This group of empathic misfits is convinced that Pauline can sense connections between the worlds. They believe that with their abilities and a little string theory, they can open a portal to another dimension.
Dragging her brother into the mix, they both get tangled in a club that blurs the line between science and magic. The group gets more than they bargained for when their abilities become more than a theory, and the other dimensions weren’t what anyone expected.
Soon, darker motivations emerge within the club, and another person she loves goes missing. Paulie begins to question her reality and must get a handle on her own mind if she wants to get back to her loved ones.
THE CHOSEN ONES NEXT DOOR, a novel
STATUS: In Progress
MY APARTMENT IS FULL OF PETTY GHOSTS, a novel
STATUS: In Progress
