Frozen: A Prodigal Story

FROZEN is a follow-up story to PRODIGAL, set in the same world of demons and blood pacts, but with a fresh set of characters.  The novella is available from Musa Publishing, or you can buy from Amazon.

At fifteen, Lee Mitchell and Roman Carmichael are sure their fledgling relationship can survive any heartache or hardship--until a spring canoeing trip ends with Lee in the hospital and Roman missing. With his memories of that final, tragic trip gone, Lee spends the next ten years building a life around the river where he lost Roman, existing on the hope that one day he'll find a clue as the fate of his first love.

During a late March snowstorm, Lee finds a stranger wandering the road and offers him a ride. Lee's shock and confusion at discovering this stranger is Roman, older and confused by his long absence, is fast tempered by relief and joy. But Roman isn't back to stay, and as they work to repair the fractured pieces of their past, the emerging truth of the night Roman disappeared may be the one thing that their enduring love cannot overcome.

PRODIGAL

My debut novella, PRODIGAL, is now available at Musa Publishing. You can also purchase from Amazon.

When the bizarre murder of an old  classmate reunites ex-lovers Ethan and Jesse, a shared childhood secret draws them back together as an otherworldly killer tries to tear them apart for good.

After escaping its mysterious grasp twelve years ago, Ethan Wilde never thought he'd return to Kingston, North Carolina—until the murder of an old schoolmate draws him back to the hometown he fears and the love he left behind.  Rooted to Kingston by a force he can't explain, Jesse couldn't leave with Ethan when he asked, and it's a choice he's always regretted.  A choice based on a terrible secret they share with four others.  When they were nine years old, the six of them were taken into the woods, and no one is exactly sure what happened to them.  Only that they came out changed.  Marked.  Twenty years later, the evil that hunted them is back and it's collected two souls already.  Ethan and Jesse's love defeated the monster once, but are old feelings strong enough to save the survivors a second time?

Edited: March 5, 2012