Learning the ropes · 2015
Salt of a Sailor
No sailing experience. Plenty of determination. The funny, not-so-dainty beginnings of a sailor discovering what it really takes to make a boat—and a new life—her own.
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don’t let go.
Messy families. Big leaps. A few questionable decisions. From tangled roots to open water, find your next read.
The debut literary novel · 2025
Clovis
You can leave home.
But does home ever leave you?
In a small New Mexico town, Callie Potts grows up in a family where love and damage are tangled together. Coming of age means reckoning with the silence, grief, and secrets she inherited—and deciding what comes next.
Family / Resilience / Coming of age
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A little salt. A lot of story.
Big dreams, steep learning curves, and the adventures that happen when you untie the lines.
Changing course · 2015
Keys to the Kingdom
A young lawyer questions the life she worked so hard to build. An honest leap from the familiar toward freedom, uncertainty, and a very different kind of success.
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The boat-buying adventure · 2016
None Such Like It
Buying the boat is only the beginning. Join a new boat owner’s voyage through the nine stages of boat-buying grief, where the dream meets repairs, reality, and plenty of laughs.
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Women’s fiction · 2015
A Civil Affair
Ambition. Desire. Dangerous company.
For young attorney Addie Gray, wanting more is familiar territory. But when a pivotal case draws her into a world of power and temptation, her professional ambitions and personal desires begin to collide.
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