New Adult Books

The Stories Stars Tell

Ever felt like the sum total of your choices have fixed your story in the stars?

For Emma Matthews, she feels like all of her choices are rooted in the fear of letting down

               … her parents...

                              God…

                                  of never being good enough.

For Tanner James, he’s wearing an identity he has created with his friends and their pact—Bro Code—fixed in sex, alcohol and bad choices.

Both are longing for a new story.

Follow Emma and Tanner as they rewrite stories they thought had already been written into something new together.  To discover sometimes painful truths about love and identity.  About the ways that love can help us lose ourselves or find ourselves. How love can break us or heal us.

In the Echo of this Ghost Town

After getting in a fight with his best friends from high school—his bros—shortly after graduation, Griffin Nichols is faced with a reality he’d never imagined. He’s alone. In his version of manhood, he figures he needs to stash his feelings, packing them away among the ruins like dusty remnants. His job is to keep solitary watch, keep trudging through the dust, and keep protecting his jailed heart. Then he meets Maxwell Wallace, and she challenges everything he’s ever believed about what it means to be a man, flinging the jail door wide open. But is Griffin ready to face those feelings when they are too heavy to carry alone, and he thinks it’s his job to do so?

When the Echo Answers

Maxwell Wallace has spent most of her vagabond life moving from fixer-upper to fixer-upper with her dad, Cal, and though she loves her dad, she’s ready to move onto the next thing—college—to find her own version of home without him. Given that her whole life has been transient and temporary, when she meets Griffin Nichols, she figures it will be another relationship that shifts like the tumbleweeds on a breeze, here one moment and gone the next. Except, even as she leaves for college and the next phase of her life, she can’t shake her feelings for Griffin and what she’s leaving behind. Max begins to question everything she believes about herself as someone who stays, and what the idea of home really means.

The Messy Truth About Love

HANNAH

A fresh start is exactly what Hannah Fleming needs after getting dumped by her cheating ex-boyfriend. While getting rejected was awful, nine weeks removed she’s recognizing the benefits, seeing that relationship for what it was: unhealthy. Then, Hannah bumps into her high school crush, Seth Peters, and is offered a second chance to see if what was in the past can once again be magical in the present. But when her past threatens her second chance, she must determine how hard she’s willing to fight for her future.

SETH

A fresh start is exactly what Seth Peters needs. New place. New people. New opportunities. Except, he runs straight into one of the greatest unresolved moments of his past, Hannah Fleming. Suddenly life is offering a second chance with her, but can he hold onto all he’s learned over the last few years to make a future with Hannah work? Or will he backslide into old ways of being to hide the truth of his darker past?

The Trials of Imogene Sol

(The Sol Conspiracy, book 1)

As the daughter of the galaxy’s most infamous terrorists, Imogene Sol has trained her entire life to earn a place in the Federation despite her notorious name. Her drive is all she’s got in the shadow of her parents, who were responsible for one of the deadliest attacks in galactic history. While her name makes her a target at the elite Ring Academy on Serta, excellence has kept her alive. Ranked in the top ten of her class, she’s ready for her final tests and a chance to prove them all wrong: she belongs.

The Ring Academy’s Year Seven Trials are her last chance to earn a reputation that’s all her own. But when she’s framed for a crime that could not only end her career before it begins, it could also end her life. Forced to investigate in secret, Imogene finds an unlikely ally in her greatest rival, Timaeus Kade. Brilliant, ruthless, and impossible to read, he may be the only person capable of helping her survive the Trials. But as sabotage turns lethal, Imogene realizes the competition isn’t the real threat.

Someone wants her eliminated.

Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Red Rising, and Fourth Wing, this new adult space opera delivers high-stakes trials, elite academy rivalries, and slow-burn tension in a dangerous galactic future.

Book one in a four-book new adult, space opera series, The Sol Conspiracy.

The Cipher of Tolo (The Sol Conspiracy, book 2)

Surviving the trials was only the beginning.

With her placement secure, Imogene Sol decides it’s time to clear her name. As her friends scatter across the Federation, she remains at the Ring Academy seeking answers. Her decision comes at a cost: isolation and a past she can’t shake. But running isn’t what she wants; she stayed for the truth. Only, the more she digs, the more she discovers the details surrounding her parents’ crime aren’t adding up. 

When coded messages from an old enemy who tried to kill her arrive followed by the strike of the shadow of death, Imogene realizes her digging might have roused something far more dangerous than she realized. More determined to find the truth, Imogene disappears into the Bellenium Galaxy, hunted. Relying on her training and the help of friends, old and new, Imogene is in a race to unravel the code. Except The Cipher of Tolo is a secret that could rewrite the federation and the truth might carry a cost far greater than she ever wanted to pay.

Book two in a four-book, new adult space opera series features galactic intrigue, found family, yearning, and a heroine discovering that the truth always comes at a cost.