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THE BOOKS
Stories of love, resilience, and the courage to begin again.
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A Heart Unbound
ISBN-978-1-7362168-0-4
In 1587, more than a hundred English colonists settled on Roanoke Island. Three years later, they were gone. They left behind an enduring mystery—and a single haunting word: CROATOAN.
But what if some of them didn't vanish at all?
When the shattered remnants of Roanoke seek refuge among their Croatan neighbors, Elizabeth Cooke glimpses the possibility of something she has never truly possessed—a life of her own choosing. Widowed after years in a brutal marriage, the young mother wants neither another husband nor another man deciding the course of her life.
Croatan warrior Ompeu has no desire to welcome the English. Their mistaken attack on his people cost him his wife and child, leaving behind a grief hardened into anger. But when his council charges him with teaching Elizabeth's eight-year-old son the ways of the Croatan, avoiding the newcomers—and the boy's mother—becomes impossible.
As Elizabeth discovers freedom and belonging in an unfamiliar world, she begins to see the man beneath the quiet warrior's guarded exterior. In turn, Ompeu comes to admire the curious, compassionate woman claiming the right to shape her own life.
Neither is searching for love. Both have learned what it can cost.
But in a place where survival demands a new way of living, they may discover that love isn't something they are given. It's something they choose.
To Catch the Wind
ISBN 978-1-7362168-4-2
In 1980 Marie Rossi is an awkward transfer student, who longs for independence from her overbearing mother. Marie wants to be her own woman, prove herself in the rodeo arena, and earn her English degree. It all adds up to one thing: freedom. She has no time for the likes of handsome and self-assured rodeo champ, Santiago Rivera, her college rodeo teammate. Despite their differences, they discover that they share the same passions, hopes, and dreams for the future.
Their promises of forever are shattered when they are torn apart by deception, coercion, prejudice, and war.
Forced to leave the woman he loves, a week before graduation Santiago enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps, finding himself in Beirut, Lebanon just before the bombing of the Marine barracks in 1983. Wounded in the blast, he's unaware that Marie has given birth to his child.
When they meet again, they are changed people with old secrets and new wounds, who must overcome inner strife and rediscover each other in order to become a family.