I published my first novel, Purgatory, in the fall of 2019 and followed that up with several more. I’m currently working on a sequel for The Mall, which follows the evolution of a rogue A.I. Learn more below or visit my Amazon page to purchase a book!
The Mall
Season’s greetings from Meadowview Mall…
In the year 2095, humanlike androids walk among us. They clean up our trash, serve us coffee, file our taxes, and generally make our lives easier. They are the pinnacle of human engineering, programmed to serve us in any way possible.
But the androids at Boston’s Meadowview Mall — the second biggest shopping mall in the world — have been acting strange lately. “Glitching,” you might say. They go off script. They make veiled threats toward shoppers.
And that’s only the beginning. They’re about to commit acts straight from their programmers’ worst nightmares, in a mall filled with Christmas shoppers.
Dana Vasquez is a former SWAT officer in the Boston area, kicked off the force for exacting revenge on her sister’s abusive ex-husband. Between raising a teenage daughter and working two jobs, Dana has a lot on her plate. So she’s less-than-thrilled to discover her daughter is hanging out at Meadowview with her troublemaking friend, Tess.
Dana arrives at Meadowview with one mission in mind: to find her errant daughter and bring her home. But when the mall’s service androids turn murderous, an ordinary holiday outing turns into a survival situation — for mother and daughter alike.
The Holdbacks
An apocalyptic high school love story…
After-school detention. On a Friday.
Seventeen-year-old Stevie Myers can think of nothing worse. She wants to look ahead to the weekend — a party out at the lake, quality time with her boyfriend TJ, a chance to unwind before midterms.
Her sentence: one hour of detention, sitting in a stuffy classroom with some of Spring Valley High School’s biggest troublemakers.
Halfway through detention, strange things begin to happen. Police helicopters fly overhead. Emergency text messages appear. The principal announces a school-wide lockdown. And a cheerleader outside the classroom devolves into a mindless savage, right before Stevie’s eyes.
TJ Langley arrives late for football practice. He parks his car, rushes onto the field, and finds a nightmare unfolding. Players are chasing other players, attacking them. Everyone seems to be going mad. And when his crazed former teammates turn on him, TJ has to flee for his life.
Inside, Stevie relies on a group of students she hardly knows to stay alive. Outside, TJ relies on his wits to save the girl he loves. While all around them, the world is falling apart.
Purgatory
On Purgatory, survival is the name of the game…
The year is 2065, and Purgatory is the hottest thing on television.
The survival-based reality show places death-row inmates on a remote island populated by horrors—some genetically engineered, some conjured, all of them deadly. Those who succeed serve the remainder of their sentences in Paradise, a minimum-security facility with open visitation and other luxuries.
Failure, on the other hand, means death.
Devin Booker sits on death row in the Ultramax Prison near Denver, wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit. He will never again see his wife or daughter in person, house rules of the Ultramax. So when he gets the chance to take on Purgatory, he seizes it.
Devin joins a motley crew of convicts who, like him, long for a better life. The rules are simple: visit the island and collect three “souvenirs” within three days. But the odds are stacked against them. Most who visit Purgatory die there.
If he wants to see his family again, Devin will have to rely on his special forces training and a handful of convicted killers. Can he survive the horrors of Purgatory to reach Paradise?