AL
Al has a good job. The hours are unpredictable, but the benefits are excellent.
He has a penthouse in Los Angeles, expensive clothes, a woman he loves, and a career with remarkable job security.
Al is a Grim Reaper.
Most of the dead leave quietly. Some need a little encouragement. And some absolutely refuse to go—which is where Al comes in. He extracts reluctant souls, points them in the right direction, and occasionally helps himself to a few earthly possessions their former owners won't be needing anymore.
It's not stealing. It's a perk.
Then there's Gloria.
Gloria knows Al disappears at strange hours. She knows his explanations don't always add up. And she knows there's something about the man she loves that he isn't telling her.
What she doesn't know is that death has an administration. It has meetings. It has mileage complaints. It has coworkers, management, and even labor problems.
And Al is about to discover that keeping his professional life separate from the woman he loves may be considerably harder than dealing with the dead.
Funny, irreverent, and unexpectedly tender, AL is a story about love, mortality, and the strange business of helping people move on.
Seamstress for the Band
How far would you go for someone you love when keeping them alive becomes its own kind of cruelty?
Dr. Sandra Lee has spent her career healing people. When her wife Cynthia is catastrophically injured in an accident and left with no meaningful hope of recovery, Sandra finds herself trapped between what medicine can do and what love requires. Her decision—made with clinical precision and complete moral clarity—changes everything. In the eyes of the law she is a murderer. In the eyes of her oath she is the truest physician she has ever been. She holds both of these things and does not resolve the contradiction because the contradiction is not resolvable.
Detective Ed Klein has spent nineteen years driving to a Palmdale memory care facility every week to sit with his wife because he cannot be the person who stops going. When a series of deaths brings Sandra into his investigation he expects to find a criminal. Instead he finds someone who operates on the same moral frequency he does—who follows the why to the end of every situation and acts on what the following produces regardless of cost.
What develops between them is not a romance and not a pursuit. It is something rarer—the specific form of friendship between two people who have each made the hardest choices available to them and who recognize in each other the cost of having made them.
Seamstress for the Band is a novel about grief and moral courage and the specific question that medicine and love both eventually ask—when there are no good choices left, who gets to decide what love demands?
Og
A hundred thousand years ago, a man disappeared into the ice. Now he's awake.
Dr. Willoughby Sherman has spent his career studying the Pleistocene. He knows its animals, its climate, its tools, and the traces left behind by the people who survived it.
Then one of those people turns up alive.
The man Will comes to call Og is not the primitive curiosity everyone expects. He is intelligent, observant, stubborn, funny, and entirely capable of deciding for himself what he thinks of the modern world. As Will teaches Og how to live in a time that should never have been his, Og begins teaching Will something considerably harder: how much of what we call civilization has anything to do with being human.
What begins as a scientific impossibility becomes an extraordinary friendship—and a journey toward something neither man expected to find.
Funny, poignant, and deeply human, OG is a novel about friendship, belonging, and the meaning of home.
The October Men: The Empty Chair
Every October, five retired cops gather at a cabin in the Sierra Nevada. This year, one chair is empty.
Marcus Latrobe has never missed the gathering. When his four oldest friends discover he secretly flew to Houston weeks earlier, they follow — and find every parent's nightmare. Marcus's sixteen-year-old daughter, Lindsey, has been kidnapped and pulled into a cartel human-trafficking operation. He didn't call the police. He didn't call his friends. He went after her alone.
Now the October Men are going after him.
Two old friends. Two false identities. One mistake could expose them both — and somewhere inside the operation, dozens of women are waiting to disappear. Including Lindsey.
The Soldier
In the future, they didn't build better soldiers. They kept what made them human.
Master Sergeant Stone has spent twenty years in the Marine Corps, and war has taken pieces of him along the way — replaced by military tech that makes him stronger, faster, harder to kill. But with every replacement, there's a little less of the man who enlisted.
Then PFC James Reyes arrives: a fully cybernetic Marine built to do everything a human soldier can, and more. He follows orders. He completes the mission. He doesn't hesitate — and he doesn't understand why a Marine would risk the mission to save another Marine.
As the war grinds on, Stone must confront a question no manual can answer: how much of a man can be replaced before the man himself is gone?