Velvet Skies

Beneath the Velvet Skies is the touching story of four children who are coming of age in a small Mississippi town in the 1970s. As if adolescence isn't tough enough, a gruesome murder scene is unearthed at the McCormick house. Old man McCormick is arrested and charged with murdering his wife and infant son. His teenage daughter Twila is placed temporarily with a foster family as officials sort out the details. Her nightmares ultimately reveal her father as the potential murderer.
He escapes justice by faking his own death but later resurfaces with only one thing on his mind—revenge. This book was originally released under the title Velvet Sky but then rewritten, re-titled and re-released in 2006.

Covenant

Revealing the Covenant is a fast paced medical thriller dealing with embryonic stem cells. Haunted by an encounter with a drunk driver that left his younger brother paralyzed, Dr. Michael Preston agrees to join a southern research lab called The Club in their quest to bring embryonic stem cells to the final stage of clinical trials. Michael knowingly puts his career and his life on the line for his brother Matt.

From the Gold Coast of South Carolina to the lazy streets of Savannah, Georgia, Dr. Michael Preston and Dr. Kayla Kilmer elude the HMOs mercenaries until a final confrontation on Tico Island in The Tropic of Cancer.

Newton Ave.

Newton Ave. is a collection of over 50 stories first published in the Madison County Herald. The stories are a heartfelt look back at life in the 1970s within a small Mississippi town. They are reflective, somber accounts of childhood with an uplifting message. For many years my family lived with my Mam-ma and Granddad in a slightly dilapidated antebellum house on the edge of Newton Avenue and Deere Street. These stories were born during my time there in that wonderful place beneath the old oaks. Finding fragments of your own life in these pages will be easy. Most of my upbringing was as typical as it gets until a freak high school football accident in 1975 paralyzed me from the neck down. Six months later my father committed suicide. For a time Newton Ave was our Yellow Brick Road to the magical land of Oz but life takes its toll on all of us eventually. If you will, please join me in a place now long gone, but not soon forgotten--a place of Hula Hoops, banana bikes and endless carefree days where barefooted children lived out their dreams on a daily basis

Lightning Tree

Lightning Tree is the story of Nathan Harris, a troubled, self-involved nineteen-year-old farm boy who comes of age and shares a passionate affair with a twenty-six year old black woman. The two bond together on a rural farm outside of Clay, Mississippi in 1951. Striving to escape the margins of poverty and establish meaningful lives, they turn to each other for refuge. The forbidden relationship yields Nathan an unexpected son. This revelation is realized eight years later and threatens his marriage - ultimately pitting him against his bigoted uncle in a life or death struggle.