Spring Melt

(A historical courtroom drama)

As a doctor’s wife in a thriving Adirondack Mountain village in the mid-1920s, Ella Devine seems to have an ideal life. Her husband grew rich catering to ill New York City socialites who wanted to hide their TB diagnosis from their friends. Their marriage is devoid of emotion, but so is she. Raped at nine years old and rejected by her mother, she had learned to quietly accept whatever life offered. All that changes when three men, best friends of her deceased father, are charged with the nineteen-year-old murder of the man who raped her.

SPRING MELT draws on the rich and fascinating history of the Adirondacks, where hikers who see only low hills and lush vegetation fail to perceive the hidden dangers and lose their lives by stepping two feet off the trail. Since the late 1800s, the wilderness that is the Adirondacks has been both a frontier to be conquered only by the hardiest of humans and a play land for the wealthy. When these two worlds collide, the resulting explosion can be fatal.

No Stranger Here

(A thriller)

Marilyn Dekker has no roots. Her parents moved constantly throughout her childhood, sometimes tearing her from bed in the middle of the night, and her husband’s work forced her own family to move with their children every few years. So, when the opportunity comes to settle permanently among the lush hills, freshwater creeks, and quiet ponds of Northern Pennsylvania, she readily agrees. But when two strangers on ATVS nearly kill her, Marilyn learns she is no stranger in these parts.

With her arrival, she has unknowingly awakened dangerous family secrets that people will kill to protect. Marilyn has a choice: She can escape, like her parents did, and raise her children on the run; or she can unravel the mystery of her parents’ past, risking her own life and lives of her husband and children to end the cycle of fear.

Early 2026

Early 2027