Childrens and Middle Grade

Taking only what they can quickly pack, 11-year-old Mardella Houston and her mom secretly move away from her abusive, drug-dealing father to start a fresh life in the one-stoplight town of Haven, Minnesota. But Mardella’s sure she’s to blame—if only she hadn’t dialed 911, none of this would be happening....

After his older brother is arrested, James is sent away from Chicago to rural Wisconsin to live with a grandmother he barely remembers-a reclusive old lady who keeps bees, studies the marsh, and fills her cabin with skulls, plants, and scientific equipment. With no friends, no phone signal, and no...

Two best friends. One strange blue light. A secret world waiting just beyond the woods. When best friends Ogden "Og" Carter and Iggy Lumaban head down to the creek one afternoon, they expect mud, turtles, and maybe a little trouble. What they find instead is something impossible-a floating blue light...

Book #1 in The Botanic Hill Detectives Mystery Series:

World-famous Egyptologist Dr. Winston Thornsley died suddenly two months ago in disgrace. His widow, Ida Thornsley, knows her husband was falsely accused of stealing an ancient burial urn he discovered in Egypt last summer, but local and federal law enforcement officers...

Book #2 of The Botanic Hill Detectives Mystery Series:

In 1945, Isabela de Cordoba’s great-grandfather, silent movie actor Lorenzo de Cordoba, mysteriously hid a legendary, multimillion-dollar emerald somewhere on the family’s sprawling estate. Nicknamed the “Green Curse,” the emerald is blamed for the family’s numerous, untimely deaths. Enter, the Botanic...

A Tahitian black pearl necklace, missing for over eighty years, takes the thirteen-year-old Botanic Hill detectives—Lanny, Lexi, Moki, and Rani—from California to Oʿahu in one of the squad’s most baffling cases yet!

The teens’ famous elderly neighbor Mr. Itsuki Yamada hires them to find his family’s valuable heirloom necklace. Soon,...

Lenore Valentine Kirby’s cryptic gravestone in a derelict cemetery beckons across centuries.

The four Botanic Hill Detectives—Lanny, Lexi, Moki, and Rani—stumble upon a mystery revealed by the deceased woman’s descendant, Mr. Nigel Kirby. Can the teens decipher Lenore Kirby's gravestone image and messages? Their unusual, present-day case, incorporating the life...

Botanic Hill series book #6.

A fearless quartet of teen sleuths, the Botanic Hill detectives, travel to Llanfair, a fictitious Welsh village in present-day California, to solve the mystery of the Shocking Specter. The green-glowing apparition reportedly roams the countryside, setting fire to buildings and meadows during the new moon....

Book #7 of The Botanic Hill Detectives Mysteries Series.

The detectives travel to England, hoping to find the notorious pirate One-Eyed Jack’s 1720s captain’s logbook at Crow's Nest Grange, the former manor house of the extinct earls of Stowesbury. The unexpected awaits: pirate tales, the cellar's chilling discoveries, missing treasures,...

The Wild West Californio days have returned with a vengeance in this confounding, present-day mystery!

Our teen detectives return home to Las Palmitas, California, from solving a mystery abroad. Their neighbor, Señor Antonio Del Castillo, owner of one of the original Spanish land grant

Book #3 of The Botanic Hill Detectives Mystery Series:

Objects of value have been disappearing from the Mayfield family’s rural California horse ranch. The Botanic Hill Detectives—Moki Kalani, Rani Kumar, and twins Lanny and Lexi Wyatt—are hired to come for a week to investigate.

Legend has it somewhere on the...