The Space Case Chronicles
Apollo Dreams
Nine-year-old Billy McBride is the “Space Case,” teased for loving NASA, Star Trek, and anything bound for the stars. At home, his older brother Sean is drifting toward rock bands, long hair, and teenage cool. But Billy still has April 11, 1970: his birthday and the launch of Apollo 13. Inside the family clothes dryer, he becomes Captain Apollo, hero of the Galactic Fleet, until real life teaches him that courage is not just for astronauts. But when the world outside becomes harder to understand, even the greatest adventures require more than imagination.
Shore Leave
At the Jersey Shore in 1975, fourteen-year-old Billy McBride expects pinball, Slurpees, and another summer as Captain Billy Apollo. Instead, his girlfriend is moving away, his brother is leaving for college, and childhood is slipping from his grasp. Reunited with Frankie, his closest summer friend, and Jason, a boy who looks up to him, Billy learns that real courage means standing beside someone when everyone else walks away. Shore Leave is a story about friendship, first heartbreak, and the summer that changes everything.
City of Dreamers
Nineteen-year-old Billy McBride has traded childhood adventures for a Greenwich Village loft, creative writing classes, punk clubs, and dreams of becoming an author. But in the fall of 1980, his mother’s illness pulls him back toward home just as John Lennon’s death shakes the world around him. As old friends return and Captain Apollo takes on new meaning, Billy must learn that growing up is not about leaving the past behind. Sometimes, it means carrying what really matters into the future.
Coming in 2027
The Hellshine Lounge
The Fence
by the Hellshine Lounge
Saul Miller has a problem. He keeps dreaming about a fence, a patch of disturbed earth, and a woman named Shanina he cannot remember. As the dreams become more vivid, Saul begins to question whether they are nightmares, hallucinations, memories, or something much, much worse.
Drawn into the shadows surrounding the Hellshine Lounge, Saul must uncover the truth behind the fence before it reveals the darkest secrets of his own mind.
But some things buried beneath the earth were never meant to be found. Because beyond that fence waits a mystery that refuses to stay hidden.
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See You Next Tuesday
at the Hellshine Lounge
Step inside a place where killers, addicts, broken dreamers, monsters, and the occasional innocent all cross paths beneath the same flickering neon sign. Each story peels back another layer of the Lounge, revealing a world where dark humor walks hand in hand with horror, where the bizarre feels disturbingly ordinary, and where every patron carries secrets that may not survive the night.
Funny, unsettling, shocking, and unexpectedly poignant, See You Next Tuesday at the Hellshine Lounge is a collection of interconnected tales that invite you to linger just a little longer… even when every instinct tells you to leave.
The Echo of My Desire
Dorian has always known there is something different about him. He can sense things others cannot and see echoes of a world hidden just beyond ordinary sight. When a mysterious vial falls into his hands, he discovers there are forces willing to kill for what he possesses.
With a desperate woman named Julia at his side, Dorian is pulled into a deadly race against criminals, occult powers, and a man determined to unleash something that should never be summoned.
In the Hellshine Lounge, where every desire has a price, Dorian must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice.
Coming in 2027
In The Pipeline
Like Lions Purring
Steeped in jazz, regret, addiction, faith, violence, and urban decay, Like Lions Purring follows damaged lives moving through the forgotten corners of an unforgiving American city. Its characters carry old wounds, buried guilt, broken loyalties, and the stubborn hope that something human might survive beneath all the ruin.
Raw, lyrical, and unflinching, this literary noir explores the people society leaves behind and the choices that keep echoing long after the moment has passed. It is a story about the lost, the used, and the fragile scraps of grace that remain when almost everything else has burned away.
The God Squad
At Our Lady of Hope, a small-town convent and orphanage, acts of charity have a curious habit of leading to suspicious legends, buried secrets, and mysteries no one intended to investigate.
With a spirited young orphan, a temperamental woody wagon, and a mismatched group of nuns whose detective skills are mostly accidental, The God Squad blends cozy mystery, warm humor, and heartfelt adventure. Every strange haunting, miracle, or local curse has a human explanation hiding underneath, though uncovering it usually requires equal parts faith, persistence, and glorious confusion.
Skateboards & Rainbows
Fifteen-year-old Ricky Rodriguez is used to standing out — Mexican-American, openly gay, and stubborn enough to keep wearing his rainbow bracelet even when the world tells him to hide it.
Popular skateboarder Ethan White seems to belong everywhere Ricky does not, but after crashing into him, the two become inseparable in private — even as Ethan keeps his distance at school, afraid of what people will think.
For Ricky, being someone’s secret begins to hurt more than being alone.
Planned Future Projects
Smart Alex
Thirteen-year-old Alex Takashi can solve equations, spot patterns, and dismantle a bad argument before most people finish making it. Understanding ordinary human beings, however, remains a work in progress.
Alongside his lifelong best friend Noah Ramírez and sharp-eyed Jasmine Johnson, Alex investigates the mysteries lurking around Crestwood Middle School and the neighboring university.
The truth is rarely as simple as it first appears.
PSI Wars
Sixteen-year-old Bartholomew Goodwin has spent his life being dragged from planet to planet by his ambassador father. But on Pentrassis, diplomacy is little more than a polished mask hiding slavery, persecution, and a brutal war against those born with psychic abilities.
When Bartholomew meets Lassiri, a mysterious young telepath connected to the underground resistance, he is pulled into a rebellion that challenges everything he believes about his father, his loyalties, and himself.
A Haunting at Castle Rock
Fourteen-year-old Josh Jones expects his move from sunny California to rural Wyoming to be the worst thing that has ever happened to him. Then he discovers the cave.
Hidden beneath the rugged landscape is an ancient black tomahawk, a forgotten mystery, and a restless presence. Josh soon learns the terrible price of disturbing secrets that were never meant to be found.
March of the Elephants
When Riley and Toby Foster discover an old circus trunk in their attic, they uncover a hidden truth: their mother was a trapeze artist, their father was a clown, and their family once belonged to the big top.
Determined to feel closer to the mother they barely remember, the brothers run away to see the legendary elephant march in New York City — unaware that a vengeful former trainer is watching, ready to turn their dream into disaster.