The Coinfinder
A Novel
An action-thriller that ranges from the labyrinthine streets of Old Jerusalem to an underwater discovery in the Mediterranean. Peter Carr, a freelance journalist trying to put his career back on track, embarks on a path of discovery that centers around the cryptic Book of Revelation and the Latter Days. Hired by a pastor to track down coins from the Second Temple, Pete finds that the church is not the only entity looking for the artifacts, and the other groups are far more determined to get to them first. Early in the journey, Pete is joined by Leah, a beautiful young woman from the church who hired him, but she insists that her church mustn’t know about her presence. In the end, Pete’s world is turned upside down, and he is left with a message to deliver to the entire Christian world.
Update February 2025: The Coinfinder is complete! The book is currently in the hands of beta readers for suggestions and edits.
Spice
A Novel of the Sea
At the dawn of the 17th century, the people of London are dying from the plague at alarming rates and Jane’s mother, an herb collector and healer, dies when she contracts the disease herself. Jane never forgets the divine smell of the cloves tucked inside the tending physician’s mask—the smell of the spices she believes could have saved her mother. Without her mother or any benefactor, the boyish young woman is thrown into a life of despair along the wharves where sailors prowl. At her point of utmost desperation, Jane determines to disguise herself as a boy and enlist with the newly formed East India Company on a journey to the Spice Islands. Maintaining her disguise, Jane develops into a healer as she strives to understand the diseases that wrack the lives of so many around her. Across a journey of peril, desperation, wonders and revelation, Jane clings to the promise of the islands for which the whole world is clamoring.