There’s Somethin’ About Love: A Novel
Sometimes the things we run from, are the very things we need the most.
Dexter Williams has big dreams. Born to a working-class family from West Philadelphia, Dexter has never forgotten the sacrifices his parents made. Caught in the crossfire of their hopes for him, and his own destiny, he reluctantly follows the path they’d set for him.
Six years after becoming the first in his family to graduate from college, Dexter is scraping by in a dead-end corporate accounting job. While frustrated with life and flirting with failure, Dexter meets Makena Washington, a young vivacious queen whose confidence, optimism, and charismatic nature is hard to ignore.
Their friendship blossoms at a time when Dexter questions if love is really worth a second chance. Fearing love would only get in the way of his complicated life, he finds himself in a tug o' war of the heart. After a sudden string of troubling circumstances, Dexter is on the verge of giving up on himself and his dreams.
Freedom Park: A Novel
What do you do if you’re accused of something so heinous, that the mere accusation alone threatens to destroy everything you’ve built?
Darnell Scott is no stranger to adversity. Becoming the first Black mayor of Mountain Ridge, Utah—a city with a bitter history of racial tension and oppression—has required sacrifice, tolerance, and steely determination. Once a budding basketball star from Atlanta, Darnell could have followed the glamorous destiny of a professional athlete, but chose instead to bring hope and change to the people in his community.
Thankfully, it worked. Darnell’s leadership is slowly transforming Mountain Ridge into a thriving place for all people, and when a new political window opens the young mayor is suddenly presented with the opportunity to catapult his message to a national level. But for all his visionary promise, Darnell has been living with a dark and dangerous secret. In the midst of an intense senate race, his past threatens to catch up with him and devastate everything he’s worked so hard for.
If he’s to clear his name and salvage his dream of equality, Darnell will need to face his past and the forces of envy and prejudice determined to destroy him.
Digging Deep Within: A Story of Courage and Liberation
Corey Brookshire is a young Black man from Washington, D.C. who arrives at cross road in his life after the untimely death of his mother Dorothea. From the outside looking in, he appears to have it all but nobody knows the internal struggle that plagues his mind nearly every day.
Struggling to make sense of his new reality, Corey tries to use his career and accomplishments as a way to avoid dealing with the uncomfortable truths of his past. Little by little his growing unhappiness and unwillingness to get help begins to affect his life in ways he never imagined.
Corey soon finds himself navigating through the uncharted territory of an unfulfilling but promising career, new marriage and a barrage of buried unresolved pain. He unintentionally embarks on a journey of self-discovery where he must confront the toils of brokenness, mental anguish and the male stigma of seeking help if he is to find the freedom he so earnestly desires.