Novels of second chances, unexpected adventures, and lives rebuilt.
Contemporary fiction · Book One
New Orleans was supposed to be his fresh start. Nobody mentioned the dinner rush.
Cal arrives with a neglected trumpet and a barely used knife roll. Between Miss Jo’s kitchen, jazz gigs, and June—who sees through his charm—he starts building a life he actually wants. Then someone auctions off his cooking without asking.
Explore the bookScience fiction · Space adventure
The salvage job was supposed to be dead. Then it answered.
Rafe Braun returns to a ruined orbital resort and finds an intelligence that remembers him. Saving her will take more than repairs—and someone else wants the wreck for scrap.
Explore the bookRick has thirty days to cross America, starting with absolutely nothing. Then he meets Felicia, and an outrageous challenge becomes a life neither of them saw coming.
Explore the bookContemporary romance · Island escape
He knows how to build almost anything. A life he wants to live is another matter.
Luke trades a successful construction business for a neglected island resort. Restoring Crescent Cay with Amara and Lucia changes much more than the buildings.
Explore the bookNonfiction · Practical self-development
Nobody handed you a manual for adulthood. Start here.
A direct, practical field manual for getting your habits, health, money and responsibilities under control—and following through when motivation wears off.
Explore the bookBegin with Second Line Chef. Continue in the published reading order.
Cal arrives with a neglected trumpet and a barely used knife roll. Between Miss Jo’s kitchen, jazz gigs, and June—who sees through his charm—he starts building a life he actually wants. Then someone auctions off his cooking without asking.
As Jazz Fest approaches, Cal’s new life grows louder and more public. June, Marisol and an offer from his old world force him to decide where he belongs.
Cal, June and Marisol take on a worn-out French Quarter hotel. Renovation is only the beginning when the city starts bringing its problems to their door.
A return to California brings Cal’s carefully controlled former life into view—and reveals the man he was before New Orleans.
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