Novels

Cardboard-wrapped, forty-pound bales of marijuana called square grouper are flooding Florida's Gulf Coast. Undercover State Trooper Rusty McMillan is sent into the backwater fishing village of Crescent Beach to bust a key operator and stem the area's rampant smuggling. Expecting to deal with trailer trash, Rusty instead discovers a hardworking community from an earlier era when life was simple and straightforward. He becomes immersed in the everyday life of shrimping, crabbing, and fishing, while at night he drinks beer, arm wrestles, and plays poker with the locals who become his friends.
Rusty gets the evidence he needs, but can he make the arrest? Either way he's a traitor: to his job or to the community. But before he can decide, the town is slammed by unexpected hurricane force winds and a lethal twelve-foot tidal surge. Rusty joins the men, women, and children in the life and death struggle with a ferocious storm that plays no favorites.

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Five years ago as an undercover State Trooper, Rusty McMillan fell in love with the peaceful backwater fishing village of Crescent Beach. When he retires, he moves there permanently. But, he soon learns that things have changed. The sports fishermen now outnumber the commercial fishermen two to one and they’re at each other’s throats. The sexy bar owner’s ex has gotten out of prison and has come looking for her. Scallop shucking determines a Festival Queen while a modern day Tortoise & Hare race captivates the town. A body is discovered and a Colombian drug cartel seeks vengeance. Add Rusty’s attraction to his best friend’s wife into the mix, and Rusty’s peaceful little town is anything but.
A sequel to the novel Crescent Beach, many of the same characters return and some whacky new ones appear. If you enjoyed Crescent Beach, you’ll love Raw Dawgin’.

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Tom Young wants to make a difference in the world. He joins the Peace Corps and is sent to an impoverished farm community in remote southern Chile where a reforestation project is the campesinos'  only hope for a better future.
Tom finds himself in a breathtakingly beautiful land from a bygone era. Horses and oxen provide transportation, light
is from kerosene lamps, and water is fetched with bucket from springs. He is drawn to the closeness of Chilean family life, and desperately wants to fit in as he struggles with the language and customs. Fighting depression and loneliness, he slowly adapts, but is shocked when brutal acts of violence rock the community.
Tom's bonds are truly forged with this forgotten world when he embarks on the seemingly impossible task of building a new road into the campo.  What he doesn't anticipate is the relationship that develops with a beautiful young woman, a relationship that will providethe key to Tom's heartwarming -- and heartbreaking -- acceptance into the community.

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When The Whistling Stopped is a sequel to One For The Road. It is an "eco-thriller," based on a real event where the largest population of black-necked swans in South America was decimated through the toxins systematically and intentionally dumped by a pulp mill. The novel is about a young couple's quest to expose and bring down the amoral mill owner, but when he retaliates, not only their lives, but also those of their friends, are soon threatened with surprising and devastating results. The twists and turns of this fast-paced story make it hard to put the book down.

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