Notes from my desk: novels in draft, revision, or early outline.
Some are only beginning. Some have already grown far beyond their first imaginings.
Aphelion
Aphelion is an epistolary love story about distance, memory, and the quiet pull between two lives long separated.
When a message arrives from the farthest edge of her past, Yael begins a correspondence that blurs longing, fate, and choice.
Revising
55,372 words
If Not Heaven
Rural Germany, 1908. A priest and a woman marked by family history find themselves drawn into an intimacy that threatens the careful lives both have built.
Drafting
63,184 words
A Study in Stillness
Zürich, 1926.
In the quiet aftermath of the Great War, a painter searching for light and a young translator living under a borrowed name move through the same city. When their paths cross, a fragile understanding begins to take shape in the silence between them.
A quiet novel about art, longing, and the slow work of learning to live again.
Drafting
11,998 words
The Light Between
Sometimes the most broken people find unexpected grace.
Iris studies the stars and spends her days analyzing radio signals from distant galaxies. She believes in patterns, in mathematics, and in the idea that some things are worth waiting for.
When she meets Titus, a repairman who fixes radios but cannot seem to repair his own life, an unlikely connection begins to form between faith and doubt, science and longing.
Drafting
11,454 words
A Name Once Divine
1923, Egypt. A weary archaeologist uncovers a veiled statue buried beneath the sands of a forgotten temple. When the stone fractures, a woman awakens with no memory of who she is.
As he hides her from those who would claim her, wonder deepens into devotion. But each memory she regains stirs older forces beneath the desert.
A mythic romance of memory, devotion, and what it means to be human.
Drafting
5,063 words
So I Am Not Only a Signal
A quiet post-collapse story set between the deserts of the American Southwest and low Earth orbit.
Leo lives underground as a listening post operator, surviving through routine and distance. Then he intercepts transmissions that should not exist: recorded messages from a young woman alone in orbit, speaking into what she believes is empty sky.
Across silence and years, a connection begins to form between two people who were never meant to hear each other.
Drafting
2,188 words
A Silent Order of Things
After their father’s death, Edward Mercer leaves Miami for Havana to secure the family’s fortune. His sister Clara stays behind, keeping the house intact through silence and routine.
When he returns, solvent and altered, the order that once held them begins to fail.
A Silent Order of Things is a southern gothic novella about inheritance, devotion, and the quiet systems built to justify what cannot be admitted.
Outlining
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