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There is an adage that everyone has at least one novel inside them.
I have several. Many, in fact.
Below you’ll find summaries of my constant works in progress along with links to resources and updates.
Going Crazy (working title)
Genre: Women’s fiction / contemporary romance
Summary: Alex Montgomery is a 40-something virtual assistant who lives in nowhere, Michigan, and may possibly be in love with her best friend, Seth. They’ve had their sexual tension moments, and Alex needs to decide if she wants to admit the truth, she loves him, or lose him forever. She’s also struggling with her mental illness and her fading dream of becoming a printmaker. Alex has a lot going on, and she really needs to fight for herself. The question is: can she do it?
Tropes: Older heroine (mid-40s), mental health, plus size love, friends to lovers, everyone else can see it, boy next door, fear of intimacy, sworn off relationships, small town love
Ruby Hart Takes a Photograph (working title)
Genre: Historical mystery (possible series)
Summary: It’s 1911, London, and Ruby Hart is an aging stage actress. Instead of going in to movies, she decides to retire and pick up photography. One day, while taking photos of the locals, she accidentally photographs a murder and now she is determined to find out who the killer is before she’s next.
Live and Let Lola (badly titled working title)
Genre: 1920s noir mystery (possible series)
Summary: Lola ? (haven’t figured out last name yet) is a female detective in an unnamed big city in the 1920s. Her right-hand woman is accused of murdering her husband, while Lola’s ex-lover, now nemesis, has disappeared and is wanted by the local mob. As Lola puts together the puzzles, she realizes both instances are connected. Can she solve them before she finds herself at the bottom of the river?
Maeve Fletcher Rights a Wrong (working title)
Genre: contemporary romance (possible series)
Summary: Maeve Fletcher met Jamie Abbot a week before her wedding at a small bar in her hometown of Pembrook, MI. While Maeve’s fiancé has given her permission (and she thinks so he can go have sex with someone else) to have fun before the big day, Maeve knows if she and Jamie get together, her whole life will be upended.
Ten years later, Maeve finds out Dylan, her husband, has been cheating on her for years, so she goes home to Pembrook to lick her wounds. Her best friend, Charly, convinces Maeve to have a one-night stand. Maeve hesitantly agrees, and the first person she swipes right on? Jamie.
Tropes: He falls first, age gap (she’s older), small town romance, fish out of water (she’s city; he’s country), return to hometown, wounded heroine, plus size love, slow burn
Unamed Paranormal (no title yet)
Genre: paranormal cozy mystery (possible series)
Summary: Currently, I’m working on the world and its synopsis. What I do know is that she’s a 40-something who lives in a small town in MI and becomes an accidental PI. Paranormal elements will be incorporated in some way.
Stella Matthews Makes a Decision (working title)
Genre: Women’s fiction
Summary: Stella Matthews is burned out. After working in Silicon Valley for nearly 20 years, she decides she can’t take it anymore. When her boss at Let’s Get Metaphysical pushes Stella one step too far, she quits on the spot. Shortly after, Stella finds out her favorite aunt has died. Taking this as a sign to get the hell out of California, Stella closes up her apartment and drives to N. Michigan, where she confronts her past and her present.
Ladies of the Round Table (working title)
Genre: Historical romance (series of at least four books)
Summary: Set in Edwardian England (1900-1914), four best friends each take on the establishment in their own way. One lady is a lawyer, one is a suffergete, another is a writer, and I haven’t thought of what the fourth lady will be.
Tropes: Age gap (she’s older), he falls first, cinnamon roll, the one who got away, body diversity, feuding families, reformed rake, heroine is gender fluid, rescue hero in distress, family friend, mental health, divided loyalties, and forbidden love.