Novels

I write novels as another way of paying attention.

My fiction is rooted in and around Boaz, Alabama — not as a brand or backdrop, but as a moral landscape where ordinary lives intersect with inherited stories, family pressure, religious certainty, buried secrets, and long-delayed truth.

These novels grow out of the same concerns that shape much of my work: belief and doubt, moral tension, loss, loyalty, grief, memory, justice, and the quiet ways people change over time.

The stories are not arguments. They do not resolve questions so much as live inside them. Fiction allows complexity to remain intact in a way explanation often cannot.

Some of the novels are mysteries. Some are family stories. Some are stories of escape, reckoning, or late discovery. Many involve lawyers, investigators, small-town churches, old wounds, and people who begin to see that the story they inherited may not be the truth.

Each novel stands on its own. Together, they form a body of narrative work shaped by the same commitment to honesty, restraint, and lived experience.

Where to Begin

If you are new to my fiction, here are three possible starting places.

Selected Novels

Meghan’s Son

A novel about faith, power, family pressure, and the cost of telling the truth when silence is expected.

Begin here if you are drawn to stories about inherited belief, moral courage, and a young life shaped by secrets adults tried to control.

The Boaz Stranger

A late-life mystery involving memory, justice, grief, and the pull of unfinished love.

Begin here if you like stories where the past returns quietly, old relationships still matter, and the truth has waited a long time to be named.

Millie’s Daughter

A story of escape, resilience, and the long shadow of violence across generations.

Begin here if you are interested in survival, family wounds, and the strength it takes to step outside the story others tried to write for you.

Explore the Full List

These are only selected novels. You can find the full list of my published fiction here:

Find all novels here.

The novels are separate stories, but they often return to the same question: what happens when buried truth finally begins to speak?

For Readers of the Boaz World

Many of my stories return to the same emotional and moral territory: small-town Alabama, inherited certainty, church-shaped culture, family silence, old crimes, and the question of what happens when someone finally tells the truth.

If that world interests you, you may also want to visit The Tanner Files, an ongoing fictional publication written in the voice of Micaden Tanner, the Boaz attorney at the center of The Boaz Scorekeeper.