My Work

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Can siblings, Honey and Joey, recover from the worst thing to happen to them?

In 1959, when siblings Honey and Joey are abandoned by their father, a renowned professor of behavioral psychology, they fall from affluence to poverty. The children and their neglectful mother land in a gritty mob-run neighborhood of Adam, Massachusetts. Wanting to toughen up, Joey befriends the ballsy Billy D. They grow so close, they share family secrets during a blood brother ritual. These secrets will be their undoing. 

Honey loves Billy D because he's beautiful and unaffected by the eyepatch she wears to cover her disfigured eye. When Billy D falls on hard times and is sent away to live, he grows angry that Joey isn't doing enough to stay in touch with him, though Honey writes him letters. 

Upon his return three years later, Billy D is intent on getting reparations from Joey. Joey tries to make amends but Billy D can't be satisfied. He pulls Honey into his dangerous orbit and continues to take from Joey until he takes something so dear to all of them, their lives are destroyed. 

Posing questions of moral injury, mothering, and forgiveness, The Kids From Adam traverses through the brutality of the Vietnam war and the cruel research of separating infant primates from their mothers to learn how humans love. It’s also a story about deception, secrets, forgiveness and the unshakable bonds of love.

What happens when three friends realize they’re running out of time to fulfill their dreams of successful marriages and motherhood?

Samantha, Desiree and Bernadette meet at UC Berkeley in 1978. Just before graduating at age twenty-one, Sam loses her mother. Overwhelmed, she marries her boyfriend of six months. Less than a year later, her marriage is over. Sam is smart, strong-willed and has built a successful corporate training company. She believes she hasn’t met the kind of guy who can handle her strength. She's unaware she seeks men she can leave. 

Desiree, a stockbroker turned yoga instructor, is addicted to adventure and excitement. When she marries for the third time, she thinks she’s finally got it right. When her husband dies suddenly, she feels unmoored for the first time in her life.

Bernie, a petite, twinkly-eyed veterinarian, attracts strays from all species. Married once to a man who left her, she has always wanted a gaggle of kids but would settle for one. If Mr. Right isn’t out there, she’d be content with Mr. Okay.

The friends make a concerted effort to begin dating again and life gets complicated quickly. Through various trials and tribulations, they find they may not get what they want, but they can get what they need.