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Desert Mountains

Cozy & Courageous Stories

FOR the YOUNG and OLD at HEART

White WIld Flowers

Welcome,
fellow Earth-Treader
& Dreamer

I'm so glad you stopped by!

Here you'll find all you need to know about my books: Unearth the TidesEndlewood, The Earth-Treader, From the Mountains to the Valley, The Wishing Seed, Aliferous, and On the Edge of the Forgotten Sea (Book 1 in The Chronicles of Chaera).

I love stories, especially the kinds that carry deep themes and are reminiscent of simpler times. Of hope and courage and good overcoming evil. Light always outshines the darkness, and let us never forget that truth, lest our hearts grow weary.

Be of good courage,

I hope you'll stick around!

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A Sun Fading, A Songbird Broken

Coming this fall!

Two princesses set to ruins
One violinist far from home
And a man on the run

Suntower Palace is more than a home. It's a tomb.

Ever since Windkeep’s decree to send all the maidens away from Chaera, Suntower’s twin Princesses Liora and Lark Sulmaane’s lives have never been the same. They’ve returned changed: one deathly ill and the other harboring a deadly secret. Liora, locked away in a remote tower and too weak to stand most days, wants nothing more than to leave the room that binds her. And fleeing into the palace’s dark places is Lark, who seeks to outrun the beast that haunts her every night.

But when Lark overhears a piece of information that could grant freedom to everyone she loves, she follows the spark of hope on a perilous quest to Croastan, leaving her sister behind. Though she doesn't anticipate Gaellen Fitz-Pault, the runaway, climbing through Liora's window in her absence.

Berin Koppeter, a burgeoning violinist from Bremen, Germany, has been given the opportunity of a lifetime. But when one shipwreck in the North Sea leaves him stranded in Croastan, a land of magicked song and never-ending trees, he’s desperate to get back home.

Liora and Lark soon find their hearts entangled. One on the verge of death, the other on the verge of becoming a monster…neither anticipated falling in love nor the sacrifice that would come with it.

In this YA portal fantasy where Beauty and the Beast and Rapunzel meet the winter wilds inspired by Russian and Irish folklore, Liora, Lark, Gaellen, and Berin must decide what is worth fighting for—before it’s too late for them all.

Book 3 coming soon!!

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Cloudy Mountain

Endorsements & Reviews

"This unique reimagining of The Little Mermaid explores themes of love and forgiveness and owning up to the choices—both good and bad—that we make. Gentle, lyrical, fierce."

—  𝐉𝐎𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐀 𝐑𝐔𝐓𝐇 𝐌𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐑, author of winning author of Into the Heartless Wood and While the Dark Remains

Trees and Mountains

“But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”

- Samwise Gamgee

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