Books

Stories Across the Tides of Time

Welcome to my literary garden — where each book is a seed sown in the soil of memory, history, and longing. Here, the past whispers through every page, and the ache of human connection finds its voice. Whether you’re drawn to the quiet resilience of love, the reckoning of old wounds, or the fragile hope of second chances, may you find something here that echoes within you.

Featured Works

The Hand That Sows the Stars

HISTORICAL FICTION / ROMANTIC DRAMA

Status: In Progress — A novel of memory, war, and the grace of finding one’s way home.

In the summer of 1947, Henry McRae boards the RMS Queen Elizabeth, leaving behind the salt-rubbed shores of Cape Breton and a family still healing from the war’s deep lacerations. He carries with him an old book of poetry, a wartime journal he can’t yet bear to read, and a longing that refuses to fade.

His destination: England. His purpose: to find Mary, the woman who once offered him a glimpse of peace in the trenches and then disappeared like a dream at dawn.

Woven with flashbacks from the war, the restless postwar years, and the fragile thread of a love neither time nor pain could sever, The Hand That Sows the Stars is a story of resilience, healing, and what remains when all else has fallen away.

A novel for readers who believe in the redemptive power of love, poetry, and the unbreakable pull of the heart’s true home.

“We are all sowers, Henry,” Mary once said. “Even in the dark, the stars remember where to bloom.”

Early Inspiration Behind the Novel

NOTE: While my father — a World War II veteran — was the spark that lit the first flame of inspiration for
The Hand That Sows the Stars, this is not his story. Far from it. The characters and events within these pages are entirely fictional, shaped by imagination, historical research, and the echo of questions I never got to ask. It is a tribute, not a biography. A way of reaching back through time to better understand the human cost of war, the quiet aftermath, and the enduring hope of those who lived through it.

FIRST DRAFT: A Typical Day

I wrote the first draft in longhand and typed it up later to help me stay in the flow and out of my editor mind in.

RESEARCH

I have tons of research, but I need to set up a system to keep track of what I have and what I need.

MORE RESEARCH

This was a box I found in my father’s things after he passed. I’ve added notes to his memorability and while it wasn't a lot to go on, I managed to find regimental war diaries to help me track his movements.

In Early Development

The Inheritance

HISTORICAL FICTION / FAMILY SAGA

Quinlan County, Ontario. Early 1970s

When Evie Sutton, a quietly sensitive woman, inherits her estranged grandmother’s country estate, bypassing the mother who never learned to love her well, she returns to a place she barely remembers and a legacy she never expected.

What was meant to be a simple task, gather the valuables, ready the house for sale, becomes something deeper. The house holds stories. The land holds echoes. And the silence between generations begins to stir.

Blending a touch of romance with the raw threads of family, memory, and hidden truth,

The Inheritance explores what we carry, what we bury, and what it means to finally lay claim to one’s own belonging.