Short Stories
- Grownup [Every Day Fiction]
- The Truth Waits [Every Day Fiction]
- The House and the Sea [Sixfold Magazine]
Articles
- The Gift of Time: Five Practical Tips for New Moms [Risen Motherhood]
- Not as the World: Finding Peace in Motherhood [Risen Motherhood]
- Freedom from Regret [Christian Parenting]
- The Contours of Compassion [Fathom Magazine]
The Novel
Below you’ll find a synopsis from my mystery/suspense novel, The Honest Lies. You can order your copy here. Happy reading!
Goodreads Reviews:
“The quality of writing is fantastic. This thriller was hard to put down; I finished it in a day. The storyline is engaging and compelling, and the protagonists are thoughtfully characterized and believable. Five solid stars.” – Meg
“The whole second half of this book is pure adrenaline! Might have to read it a second time because I read it mostly in one sitting. At times the writing is almost poetic, adding a nice balance to the fast pace of the story. The romance is not overdone, and the action kept me guessing until the end. Highly recommend!” – Leah
“[The ending] was a spectacular adrenaline rush that I read in one setting, unable to put it down! The characters are real, flawed humans who not only develop over the book but illuminate qualities in the reader themselves. I highly recommend!” – Katy
Synopsis
Jack Murphy’s past died with his parents. Since then, he’s crafted a lonely but successful life operating the family’s drug wholesale business in a place miles and years away from Detroit. He’s even falling for his next-door neighbor Megan, a young woman grieving the recent death of her husband.
But when twenty million dollars’ worth of drugs disappear from one of Jack’s warehouses, he grapples to connect past mistakes with a new, as yet invisible enemy. Someone remembers. Someone is settling the score.
Megan loved her husband, enough to move a thousand miles before asking questions about his past. With nothing but their memories left to protect, she struggles to reconcile the documents she finds in his closet – evidence tying him to a robbery committed months after his death.
It isn’t until Megan is kidnapped that she grasps how deeply her husband’s sins were intertwined with Jack’s past. Only then can she begin to unravel the complex relationship between truth and love – and lies told with the best of intentions.