Writing Projects
At the moment, I'm gearing up to jump into the query trenches with ANYWHEN. While I'm on that journey, I'll be writing THE FOUNDING DAUGHTERS, my column, and various short stories.
Check out both YA novel descriptions below.
ANYWHEN
YA, Speculative Fiction
If family means the world, what would you do to save it?
On the worst night of her life, 17-year-old Skye Redmond is arrested, expelled, and handed a copy of her obituary
in under 60 minutes. Even better, the delusional stranger responsible for that photoshopped newspaper ridiculousness is convinced her on-stage hallucinations—about the 1903 theater inferno and the man she shot—actually happened.
But when Agent Chase Barton’s laughable explanations come true hours later, everything changes.
Forced to join the Time Protection Agency’s training academy, or die, Skye is whisked into a reality where protecting history’s known timeline is a job, her fellow trainees are from different decades, and fear from her former life may threaten her success in this one.
And if facing those fears and controlling her new time-traveling abilities aren’t enough, she’s also being hunted by the same man from 1903. As the mysteries unravel and her training progresses, Skye will have to use everything she’s learned to stop him from manipulating time, and killing the new friends who’ve become her cherished family.
THE FOUNDING DAUGHTERS
Young Adult, Historical
In June of 1668, a murderer, two orphans, and a sister with a secret sail to New France where three will choose a pioneer or soldier as their husband.
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Eighteen-year-old Jeanne must escape France before she’s charged with the murder of her husband. The dying wish of sixteen-year-old Elizabeth’s father is for her to be a bride in New France, avoiding a life of prostitution. Fifteen-year-old Anne’s parents are dead, and her half-brother, the heir to the family title and fortune, banishes her from the family estate. Thrown into one of the most notorious 17th century hospital prisons for loving another woman, eighteen-year-old Perrine is rescued by wives of the hospital staff.
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These four teens will meet on a ship bound for Canada, their lives forever entwined as Filles du roi—king’s daughters—in a program financed by the crown to populate the French colonies. Three will find husbands, all four will find love, and together, with their partners, they will start a new nation.
Who were they?
"The Filles du roi (or roy) were part of King Louis XIV's program to promote the settlement of his colony in Canada. Some 737 of these women married and the resultant population explosion gave rise to the success of the colony. Most of the millions of people of French Canadian descent today, both in Quebec and the rest of Canada and the USA (and beyond!), are descendants of one or more of these courageous women of the 17th century."