Me

Who am I?

I grew up in New York's Hudson Valley and the neighboring Berkshire and Catskill mountains, areas rich with local legends. My goal as a novelist is to create contemporary legends and place them in real locations that readers can visit, and to entertain readers with atmospheric and cinematic stories that ride the hills and valleys of life. My novels feature reluctant heroes who embody the best (and sometimes worst) of us. Always grounded in reality, my stories are peppered with the unreal. Although they can be dark at times, they never lose sight of the light of hope. I sincerely hope you enjoy them.

Pond

Fear of Dark Water

Jimmie Knight was a freaky child. He received visions of people in danger, but he didn't have the power to save them. The premonitions ended on his twelfth birthday after he failed to rescue a drowning girl. Now a senior in high school, Jimmie must fight through the guilt and embrace the forceful return of his unwanted gift, else stand aside while a pond-dwelling demon draws the people he loves into an army of darkness, including his crush, Ember Grace. When she proves to possess powers of her own, it's game on for this pair as they call for a showdown with the demon. But victory comes at a cost. Are they willing to pay it?

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Mountain Road

Overmorrow

In Jimmie Knight's final semester of college, his long-dormant and unwelcome clairvoyance roars back to life. This time he learns how to bend fate to help the people he foresees in peril. Under intense pressure to graduate and devote more time to his struggling rock band, he receives a vision of a horrifying car crash, but he doesn't know when or where it will happen or who will be killed. Tensions boil over with his band, his professors, and his girlfriend Ember as he questions the motive of the mystics who call upon him. Perhaps it isn't the sacred call of duty he always thought it was. But when he finally discovers who will die, he might be unable to turn away. And when he finds out what it will cost him, he might have to.

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Hell

Sydney's Song

Sydney Saffro dies at homecoming and wakes up in the vestibule of Hell. Months ago, she sold her soul to a demon who lives at the bottom of a pond where her crush -- Jimmie Knight -- once tried to rescue a child who drowned. That child now offers to guide Sydney through the nine circles of Hell to earn redemption. It will be a hard journey, during which she'll face her darkest fears and deepest regrets... and maybe some payback from her best friend Ember, who she harmed in life. Or maybe... the guide's offer is the demon's sinister ploy to draw her into deeper suffering. There's only one way to find out, and get out, if she can figure out who to trust and how to work the underworld system. But her biggest obstacle is her own past.

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