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WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITNEY AWARDS FOR BEST YA SPECULATIVE FICTION AND BEST DEBUT NOVEL

WINNER OF 2025 FIREBIRD AWARD FOR YA FICTION

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Rosie's ability to steal memories might stop a serial killer—if she's willing to betray the boy she loves. 

 

For Rosie, stealing memories from Alzheimer's patients is a necessary evil, a desperate measure to prolong her father's fading life. He needs the time stored within the memories to keep his illness at bay, and they're already slipping from the Alzheimer’s patients' minds. Even the return of Noah Banks, the boy who broke Rosie's heart, can't distract her from saving her father.

 

When a string of brutal murders shocks Rosie’s small Minnesota town, she realizes there’s a connection between the current rash of killings and a long-ago memory she stole of a woman's harrowing escape from a dangerous killer. The answer to the current deaths might lie in her most recent victim’s head, where any day it could be lost to Alzheimer's disease. There’s just one problem: the woman is Noah’s grandmother. As Rosie and Noah's rekindled friendship deepens into something more, the weight of her secrets threatens to collapse the fragile trust they’re building. And as more bodies surface, Rosie’s search for the truth might lead her right into the killer’s path. 

DARK AND BRIGHT: ROSIE CANTO MYSTERIES BOOK ONE
 

DARK AND DEEP: ROSIE CANTO MYSTERIES BOOK TWO

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FINALIST FOR THE 2026 WHITNEY AWARD FOR BEST YA SPECULATIVE FICTION 

 

Rosie has finally found a way to use her memory-stealing powers for good, extracting traumatic moments from the minds of veterans suffering with PTSD. But the turbulent memories keep clawing their way out of her subconscious: Night after night, she’s been tormented by visions of a red-lipped woman in sunglasses murdering her in a series of brutal scenarios. Just nightmares, she tells herself, phantoms born from the horrors her soldiers witnessed.

 

But the moment she sees the woman in the real world, arm-in-arm with young army vet Kyle Lockwaite, everything changes. 

 

When Kyle plummets off a cliff to his death just minutes later, the police are eager to declare it a suicide. After all, the last thing Sugarwood needs is another murderer. But Rosie knows the woman in sunglasses is responsible. She delves into Kyle's most traumatic memories for clues, finding plenty of people who might want him dead—but the mysterious woman is nowhere to be found. As Rosie and her boyfriend Noah chase the murderous phantom into the web of lies that led to Kyle's death, they find themselves tangling with crooked CEOs, devious ex-girlfriends, and missing memories, all woven together by a shadowy contractor known only as the Raven. Each step they take towards learning what happened to Kyle puts them further in the Raven's crosshairs. With their own lives hanging in the balance, they must decipher the truth before it's too late.

THE REAL LIFE OF GREY MONROE

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WINNER OF THE 2025 MN AUTHOR PROJECT AWARD FOR BEST INDIE YA NOVEL

FINALIST FOR THE 2026 WHITNEY AWARD FOR BEST YA GENERAL FICTION

 

Pretty Little Liars meets The Truman Show in this story about the most famous girl in the world—who has no idea she's a star.​​​

Grey Monroe has spent her entire life as the unwitting star of the world’s favorite reality TV show. The show’s producers cram as much tragedy into her life as they can each season, ramping up the drama for fans. But to Grey, it’s all real: her brother’s disappearance, her best friend’s coma, even her secret boyfriend’s murder. 

 

When Grey starts receiving texts from her dead boyfriend LeMarc's phone, at first she thinks it's some sort of cruel prank. But the sender of the texts seems to know what happened the night LeMarc died, a night Grey can't remember—and that person is convinced Grey is the killer. Desperate for answers, Grey enlists the gorgeous new guy at school and her ex-best friend to chase down the culprit and find the truth. However, a nighttime visit from the boy she once loved—a boy whose blood might stain her own hands—will throw everything she knows into question.

 

With no way of telling reality from fiction, Grey is torn between two paths: face the mystery villain casting shadows on her familiar world, or follow the ghost of the boy she loves into the darkness.

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DARK AND DREARY: ROSIE CANTO MYSTERIES BOOK THREE

In the thrilling finale of the Rosie Canto Mysteries, Rosie faces a heart-pounding race against time to unmask a ruthless kidnapper and unravel the secret behind her family's murders—before it's too late. 

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This is not how Rosie Canto was hoping to spend her senior year. 

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Rosie’s all but abandoned her ability to sing away others’ memories and steal the time stored within them, guilt-ridden over crossing the line to save herself and protect her boyfriend, Noah. But when her long-lost uncle Ramon reappears, claiming he was falsely accused in the massacre that killed most of their family, she’s thrust back into a whirlwind of stolen memories and family secrets. Ramon enlists Rosie to help uncover the true villain behind the brutal murders, but his thirst for vengeance could swallow them both.

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Just as Rosie begins to grapple with her uncle’s return, another crisis unfolds: the brutal kidnapping of her boyfriend Noah’s basketball coach and his wife. As Rosie races to find the kidnapped couple, she realizes the threads she’s following might connect the coach and his wife’s disappearance to her own family’s dark history. But each step closer to the answer risks reopening old wounds, drawing the attention of the very forces that shattered her family long ago. In a gripping tale of danger, secrets, and revenge, Rosie must confront the shadows of her past before they consume her future.

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DISCIPLE OF WRATH: DISCIPLES TRILOGY BOOK ONE

No one under Lucetto’s red roofs and marble domes is surprised when Madalena DiStefano is selected as the new disciple of Wrath. She's the perfect choice to represent the most terrifying of the fourteen gods of virtue and vice. After all, she plunged a dagger through her own father’s heart at just sixteen.

What Lena can’t reveal is that her father’s death was self-defense, and she has no idea how to be the rage-filled monster everyone expects. If the power-hungry nobles of the signoria find out how ill-suited she is for her new role on the High Court, she’ll return to prison for good, and Dante Rossi—brooding, rich, and utterly compelling—might be well on his way to finding her out. When someone starts murdering the other disciples one by one and one of Lena's old friends is accused, she’ll have to make impossible choices to keep her new-found freedom from going up in flames.  

 

As Lena steps further into the glittering, dangerous world of the signoria, discovering who to trust may be a matter of life or death.

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