Books

Southern Dons, Book 1

Southern Dons

A Novel

Blackstone Publishing

Thirty-five-year-old Ivy Armistead has just been named the next CEO of Atlantic Southern, the powerful Virginia shipping conglomerate that her family has controlled for more than a century. The first female president in company history, she’s ready to make her mark as she inherits the job from her father, the legendary Peyton Armistead. But the night Ivy takes over, she makes a horrific discovery. This is no ordinary family business. It’s a front for a generations-old crime syndicate—one that began with colonial plantation owners and has continued to the present day through an intricate web of smuggling, extortion, and murder. And the syndicate’s kingpin, whose influence stretches from the Norfolk docks to the Virginia capitol, is Peyton. Who now demands his daughter’s unquestioning loyalty. Confronted with a reality she never thought possible, Ivy is determined to defy her father and chart her own path forward. But her resistance reawakens a bitter feud between rival American dynasties, embroiling Ivy in a scramble for power that will test her belief in herself, those she loves, and the future she once imagined.

Currently in development for television with Universal

The Bellirolt Chronicles, Book 1

The Tercentennial Baron

A Novel

self-published under the imprint 'Odyssean Studios'

A vengeful, wild-eyed warrior, he's the most sinister figure in Scottish legend. For three centuries, the Tercentennial Baron has fought his way through famous battles, then vanished without a trace. Now he's reappeared in the quiet town of Bonnybield, where he's about to be discovered by thirteen-year-old Percival Dunbar... Armed with a secret stash of books on the supernatural, Percival is the only one to recognize the ghostly signs emerging around his town. When he tries to decipher them, he’s terrified to suddenly find himself face to face with the murderous Tercentennial Baron. However, the Baron reveals he’s come not to attack Bonnybield, but to save it from an ancient, demonic evil. Through an epic journey from the battlefields of 17th-century Scotland to the underworld of Victorian London and beyond, Percival races to uncover the truth of the Baron's past—and what it means for his own destiny.