Juniper Sawfeather is choosing which college to attend after graduation from West Olympia High School next year. She wants to go to San Diego to be far away from her environmental activist parents. They expect her to think the way they do, but having to be constantly fighting causes makes it difficult to be an average seventeen-year-old high school student. Why do her parents have to be so "out there?"Her feelings on the subject are changed when she and her father rush to the beach...

Mermaids are real.When seventeen-year-old Juniper Sawfeather rescues three mermaids from an oil spill she thinks sharing her discovery will convince people to fight against oil pollution.But she's wrong.Things quickly spiral out of control. How can she prevent the mermaids from being exploited by the media? Or murdered by the oil company?~Cry of the Sea has won two literary awards.* 2nd place in the 2016 Purple Dragonfly Children's Book Awards...

From the author of ‘Cry of the Sea’A 2015 Green Book Festival for environmental themed books award winner.Juniper Sawfeather seems to have a talent for finding mythological creatures. Or maybe the creatures are finding her.The mermaids she saved from the oil spill are long gone. There’s no evidence of them, and she’s been branded as a liar and a fake in the media and at school. Her environmental activist parents have moved on to a protest to save Old Growth trees fro...

Romance blossoms between two aspiring Country music songwriters at an evening of creativity, friendship, and rivalry in this feel-good, sweet romantic comedy novella.Lyle is working on lyrics at a coffee house in Nashville when he hears humming from a gorgeous girl across the room. He works up the courage to introduce himself and finds out that Trish is a songwriter too and is new in town. Lyle invites her to his songwriting critique group with hopes of getting to ...

Mark has finally gotten the attention of the girl of his dreams. Only, his lame attempts at romance through texts and emails seem to be turning her off. When he gets put in the back of the room in an over-full class at school, he begins to discover old notes giving advice about how to write a great love letter. At first he thinks he's stumbled on some long-forgotten notes passed in class ages ago, but every time he reads them they seem directed specifically to him. They also appear at the ...

Grace Fuller is a fifty-year-old amateur ballet dancer in Hollywood, California. She’s okay with that. Most of the time. Unless a new, young student questions why she still takes ballet classes at her age. Then all her insecurities rise to the surface. Grace once had dreams of being a Broadway star, but she gave up on them long ago. She only started dancing as a way to lose weight.Now, Grace is a realtor selling houses to actors instead of being one. One afternoon, one of those han...

An award winning children's novel about Autism Awareness and School Bullying. Perfect for 4th-7th grade readers!Heidi's brother, Donald, is 16 and Autistic. She has always loved playing with him, but now she's 11 and her life is changing. She's embarrassed to have her brother around and doesn't want her friends to know about him. High school boys bully him. When the kids at her school find out about him, she gets bullied too. It's not fair. No one seems to understand. But Heidi nee...

Emotions run high and jealousy reigns when the members of songwriter group night enter a talent competition against each other.It's been a couple months since Trish attended her first songwriter night and started her relationship with Lyle. Things have been going nicely for them but haven't been quite as smooth for Odetta and Neil. These new relationships are put to the test when all four of them enter a big songwriting competition where the finalists will perform ...

Romance blossoms between two aspiring Country music songwriters at an evening of creativity, friendship, and rivalry in this feel-good, sweet romantic comedy novella.Lyle is working on lyrics at a coffee house in Nashville when he hears humming from a gorgeous girl across the room. He works up the courage to introduce himself and finds out that Trish is a songwriter too and is new in town. Lyle invites her to his songwriting critique group with hopes of getting to ...

Forced to leave the California beach behind to spend the summer with her grandma in rural Tennessee, Dannie is certain this will be the most boring summer of her life. Things start looking up when a group of local kids, mistaking her short hair and boyish figure, invite her on their ‘no girls allowed’ overnight kayaking trip. Obviously, her grandma refuses to let her go. But Dannie suspects the real reason is that the woman is afraid of the lake, only she won't tell Dannie why.Long...

Who says love doesn’t come around again?Seven stories of single parents finding love for the second timeThe Ticket to her Heart by D. G. DriverDalton Jones is a traffic cop who feels guilty about giving a speeding ticket to a beautiful single mom. With his teenage daughter’s help, he finds a way to meet the woman again, and they fall for each other. Only, he’s neglected to tell her who he really is.The Perfect Beginning by Nancy PennickTracy DeMarco has...

Eric Long’s dad is a champion surfer. His mom is an artist, obsessed with Chinese dragons. On his 15th birthday, both of his parents’ interests collide and change everything he knows about the world.When he goes on a surfing vacation with his father up near Santa Cruz, California, Eric begins having visions of a woman from Imperial China who had the ability to control a dragon and the emperor who wanted to exploit her talent to fight a war. One foggy morning, Eric and a new surfing...