Books
The Woodsman (2021)
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-68533-365-2
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-68533-370-6
Jackson Clay is a recluse living off the grid in the Virginia mountains. His child: disappeared. His marriage: collateral damage. His only salvation: finding the lost.
When Sara Beth Parker, a quiet, girl-next-door teenager, disappears in the middle of the night, Detective Angela Cole is assigned the case. A black woman in a department of white men, she’s gotten to where she has by working harder and being better than her peers.
But as leads begin to dry up, Detective Cole feels herself becoming desperate. And when a colleague introduces her to Jackson, she will break her own rules and place her and her case’s hopes in his hands.
Determined to breathe life into a case that has quickly gone cold, Jackson begins to unravel a tangled web of secrets and lies that quickly put him in the crosshairs of a sociopathic killer and his heavily armed cult. With the help of a charismatic boor named Bear, Jackson learns that the cult may be responsible for a sinister plot much larger than just Sara Beth. Outmanned and outgunned, Jackson and Bear will take the fight to the group, prepared to sacrifice everything, including themselves.
It was supposed to be a quiet night for Bobbie Casto and his friends in their small town of Rion, West Virginia. But when two Sheriff’s Deputies with ulterior motives harass Bobbie and his friends, things quickly spiral out of control. When the smoke settles, Bobbie Casto finds himself on the run, wanted for the attempted murder of a police officer.
So when Bear Beauchamp finds his business partner, Raymond Byrd, abetting the young man, he calls the one person he knows will help: Jackson Clay.
Together, the four try to piece together what really happened that night, but prying eyes aren’t welcome in this part of the Mountain State, and devils prowl this “Almost Heaven.” But unexpected enemies can lead to unexpected allies.
Now, banded together with a pair of likeable, tough-as-nails doomsday preppers living off the grid, Jackson, Bear, Ray, and Bobbie are in a race against time to prove his innocence and bring the guilty parties to justice--before they’re silenced for good.
Country Roads (2022)
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-68533-361-4
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-68533-367-6
Chasing Devils (2023)
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-68533-362-1
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-68533-366-9
Jackson Clay has been many things to law enforcement in his time helping those who have fallen through society’s cracks: Witness. Ally. Asset. But there's one thing he's never been: the prime suspect. Until now.
When his ex-wife, Nathalie, is brutally killed along a lonely stretch of highway outside Washington, DC, all evidence points to Jackson. To clear his name and grieve the only woman he’s ever truly loved, Jackson thrusts himself head-first into the investigation. But what he learns may be even more heartbreaking than Nathalie's death.
In the weeks leading up to her death, Nathalie received a phone call. The caller? Dale Jeffers—the man in prison for the death of Nathalie and Jackson's late son. His message? He didn't kill him.
Now, Jackson must solve not one but two mysteries. Who killed Nathalie? And who is really to blame for his son’s death some fifteen years ago? The search for these and other truths will rip open old wounds and force Jackson to grapple again with a darkness he'd thought he'd put behind him.
But that same darkness is where the ultimate evil lurks. And it's waiting, ready to strike should Jackson Clay get too close.
Tucked away in the Appalachian Mountains on Virginia’s western border is a mysterious, reclusive retreat. The locals and outsiders call it ‘Happyland’ for the pastel- and polo-strewn blue bloods seen being ferried to and from its grounds. Quiet and unassuming, everyone pays it little mind, but behind its pristine walls hide its dark secrets.
Jackson Clay is slowly picking up the pieces of the life he was willing to throw away. It’s been two years since he was led away in handcuffs, nearly killing the man that took his ex-wife and young son from him, when Virginia State Police Special Agent Jen Bailey comes to him with a proposition. She has been assigned to a new interagency task force organized to combat human trafficking in western Virginia and she wants to coax Clay – and by extension, Bear – out of exile and put him to work doing what he does best: uncovering the truth.
Meanwhile, across the country, Ainsley Jensen is counting down the days until she graduates high school when her old troubled home life catches up with her. She decides to cut and run early and a friend plans on following their sister to work out East. It all promises her a fresh start, but as she descends into a world that preys on the naively hopeful, she begins to face nightmares she never imagined.
Everyone’s paths will collide on the grounds of the secretive resort the locals call Happyland. As Jackson and Bear work to infiltrate the group behind it, Ainsley is desperate to escape the darkness she’s unknowingly waded into. But there is real money and power at work, and those who have it will do anything to keep it.
Happyland (2025)
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-68533-432-1
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-68533-433-8
