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Books
Releases October 2024
Dream By Proxy
Taylorville, an Appalachian town with a raw way of life, is the only world seventeen-year-old EMMA CONNER has ever known, yet a world she and her friend JOLENE want to escape. Jolene’s ticket out of town is a scholarship to Florida State to pursue her dream, marine biology. She enrolls in an academic program on board an old-fashioned sailing ship, The SeaQuest. The tragedy arising from a family's dark secrets shatters Jolene’s dream.
For Emma, witnessing her friend's life and goals ripped away is more than she can bear. She assumes Jolene’s identity and soon is on her way to The Seaquest to live out her friend’s dream.
Emma's seafaring journey opens her eyes to human and natural perils. Through each challenge, Emma practices the teachings of her wise old grandma and discovers new strengths within herself.
"Silence and tragedy know one another well" in this emotive story of loss, privilege, and opportunity." Publishers Weekly
Shame by proxy
Wade Malone has returned to the harsh poverty of his Indiana home of Taylorville to hide out from his recent past deeds, and within one day he places his daughter, Mattie, on display in a most humiliating, public way. This is not the first abuse seventeen-year-old Emma Connor has witnessed, and this violence triggers her and her best friend Jolene to seek revenge on Wade.
Fortunately, for Emma, she lives under the care of Grandma Rose who teaches her the ways of a healer––things that Grandma learned from a Mayan shaman years ago. Grandma recognizes that Emma is to come into her own understanding and greater wisdom with their town’s dark forces of violence and power.
Along their way to retribution, Emma and Jolene suffer the difficult and deadly consequences of karmic law, where fighting violence with violence only produces more violence. It is only when Emma engages her extraordinary healing practices that she is able to discover the unexpected depths in herself, what it means to have compassion for another, and what it takes to break the cycle of violence.
