General Fiction

I've published five novels in the general fiction category. Sweet Song is the only historical fiction of the five, all others are contemporary. Each book was originally published by a small, independent publisher. All of them are now available through Booktrope Editions. 

Set against the turmoil of post Civil War America, Sweet Song tells a tender, raw and provocative story of Leon, the mixed race son of a white landowner and a black house servant.  Leon, who is raised black but an outcast from both cultures, finds himself suddenly on his own—and passing for white.

Nominated as the Fiction Book of the Year by ForeWord magazine, and winner of the POW Book of the year Award, Wolf's Rite tells the story of an advertising executive, led to spiritual awakening by mystical Native Americans, who discovers love and violence at the edges of sanity. 

A lyrical and insightful meditation on mortality and spiritual life, Giver of Gifts tells the story of a schoolteacher who has lost his daughter and becomes estranged from his family and his life. Now, facing untreatable cancer, he needs to rediscover how to give of himself. 

A troubled, brilliant artist's story, told in the voice of a magnificent tree that becomes his inspiration and guardian. This exceptional novel explores the connections between creativity, love, madness, beauty, and man's relation to nature. Its unusual narrator tells a gripping story with an understanding that is beyond human, yet linked deeply to the artist's vision.

Secrets from the past overtake a man who never knew his father. Billy Maynard, raised by his mother and grandparents, comes home from college for the summer and meets Jack, an ex-con. When Billy's mother forbids him to speak with Jack, Billy wants to know why. The answers he unravels lead from deception to deception leading back to a terrible incident at the creek bend one spring night long ago.