My overarching desire in what I write is to shed more light upon issues affecting women in our world—issues that don’t get nearly the attention they deserve or require in our daily news cycles or media feeds. I feel that fiction is a good vehicle for doing that. Fiction allows writer and reader both to explore and consider the humanity of a given situation. It brings perspective. It offers us more than numbers and statistics. It goes deeper than that—it touches us on an emotional level.

 

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

If, through my stories, I can inspire dialogue or inspire empathy for the hardships many among us may suffer, or if I can help even a single individual feel less alone in their circumstance, then I will have succeeded in what I hoped to achieve.

Backshadow

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SOME WOMEN KEEP SECRETS—
SOME ARE KEPT BY THEIR SECRETS

Pinned in India, Japan, and America,
Backshadow is the story of three women from three very different worlds—three whose secrets keep them silent, haunted captives.

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Blessed Be

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SOMETIMES, THE WHOLE OF A
HUMAN BEING IS LESS VALUABLE
THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS

A female doctor volunteering with an
international maternal health NGO in northern India becomes fixated on the mysterious links between the postpartum death of a teen and the secretive practices of a nearby orphanage.

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Meat for the Boneyard

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SOCIETY’S MARGINS ARE
HOSPITABLE TO CRIMINAL
INTERESTS—BUT THEY ARE
EQUALLY HOSPITABLE TO THOSE
WHO WOULD CHALLENGE THEM

Together with a uniquely skilled team of
professionals, a young woman works to track the human trafficking mastermind responsible for the death of her mother.

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Illegal organ trade is more sophisticated than one might think – who’s behind it and how it could be controlled

Less than half of 1 percent of human trafficking victims are identified. That needs to change.

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