My Work

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When Desirae Wadsworth’s dear friend’s son dies on a Boy Scout camping trip that Desirae and her son attended, their lives crumble. Their family is forced to move to another town to escape speculation about their culpability in the boy’s death. Another blow is dealt when Bill Wadsworth has an affair with a woman whose children attend the same school as his son. Jumping from scandal to scandal while navigating grief, guilt, accusations and new realities, the Wadsworths involuntarily embark on a journey they never wanted and with outcomes that shock them all. 

When Honey, seven, and Joey, ten, watch their psychologist father nearly strangle their mother before ditching them, they lose more than their father—they lose their entire world. The bank forecloses on their Tudor home, and they land in Mom’s old neighborhood where the gangsters now rule. 

Joey, self-proclaimed chickenshit, is responsible for Honey, who he may have blinded in one eye. To toughen up, Joey befriends Billy D, the most dangerous kid at school. In the shadow of the Vietnam War, their friendship flourishes—until Joey inadvertently crosses Billy D., kicking off a vicious spiral of revenge that tears the siblings apart and tests everything they ever believed about themselves in a world of love and war.

Three women friends in their late thirties feel the pressure of time. They have been married and divorced and enjoy successful careers but can’t seem to get the “happily ever after” right. After making marriage and babies a priority, they embark on a search for potential husbands but what they find dramatically alters their lives.  Father John, a pivotal character  states, “The second hardest thing life offers us is to be in relationship…the first hardest is to be alone.”  This novel is about self-discovery, the bond of friendship and the transformative power of forgiveness.