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Stories begin long before they arrive on a bookstore shelf.

If you'd like to follow along as new books are written, edited, illustrated, and occasionally wrestled into existence with caffeine and stubbornness, you're in the right place.

Monthly Book Joy is my reader newsletter where I share:

📚 Upcoming releases and cover reveals

✨ Sneak peeks and first looks at works in progress

🖤 Character spotlights and behind-the-scenes notes

📖 Free chapters and exclusive reader content

🎵 Playlists, inspiration, and worldbuilding extras

🐾 Occasional appearances by my cats, who believe they are part of the publishing team

Whether you're here for paranormal romance, supernatural mysteries, middle-grade adventures, or whatever strange story wanders into my notebook next, I'd love to have you along for the journey.

Coming Soon

July 7, 2026
The Sixth Street Seekers: The Shadow in the Theater

A spooky middle-grade mystery set in Blackthorne Falls, where abandoned theaters, old secrets, and restless stories refuse to stay buried.

July 21, 2026
The Price of Vengeance
Book Two of The Romanov Legacy

The fight against the Collectors escalates as Mara discovers the cost of the promises she's made and the power growing inside her.

MEET THE CHARACTERS MARA — The Price of Vengeance She was never supposed to be able to feel him. A connection that runs deeper than blood, deeper than wolf, ties Mara to Dmitri Romanov across miles and machines designed to break it. When the Collectors come for the people she loves, she becomes the one weapon in the fight they never planned for — even as the entity inside her grows harder and harder to contain. "I'm still here."

MARA, "I'm still here."

BENJI The Shadow in the Theater New kid. New town. New sketchbook full of drawings he doesn't remember making. Benji's been in Blackthorne Falls less than a week, and already his pencil keeps finding its way back to the same building — the old Rialto Theater on Ashford Street, closed for decades. He doesn't know why he can feel it. He just knows it's waiting for someone to listen.

BENJI "I don't remember drawing this."

Benji Harper
New kid in town.
Draws mysteries before they happen.

ALEKSEI -The Price of Vengeance His brother is dying inside a facility no one has ever walked out of — and Aleksei will burn the whole program down to get him back. Desperate, dangerous, and out of options, he shows up at Mara's door because she's the only one who can reach what's left of Dmitri. Loyalty runs through Aleksei like a second pulse. So does the fear that this time, it won't be enough.

ALEKSEI "I'll burn it all down before I lose him."

MIA The Shadow in the Theater Mia doesn't believe in coincidences — she believes in evidence. As the one who pulls the Sixth Street Seekers together to investigate the Rialto, Mia's equal parts fearless and methodical, the kind of kid who brings a flashlight and a notebook to every mystery. When Benji's sketches start lining up with the theater's fifty-year-old secret, she's the first to say what everyone's thinking: they need to go inside.

Mia Carter
Founder of the Sixth Street Seekers.
Runs toward mysteries.

MIA "We're not leaving until we know the truth."