BUMMIN IT
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After a lifetime in the foster system, seventeen-year-old Elijah Briscoe knows how to survive—but he has no idea how to belong.
He wants what everyone else seems to have so easily: a place that feels like home, friends who don’t disappear, and a girl who looks at him like she sees more than a case file. So when summer hits and real jobs feel like a dead end, Eli and his best friends cook up a harmless way to make quick cash—street-corner panhandling with funny cardboard signs and zero consequences.
Until there are consequences.
What starts as a joke lands Eli in the crosshairs of a professional panhandling ring that doesn’t tolerate competition. When his money is stolen and his life threatened, Eli’s world collides with Blue—a street-smart, fiercely guarded girl whose father is tangled deep in the city’s criminal underbelly. Together, they’re pulled into a race against time to find him before the wrong people do.
As Eli is forced into the hidden spaces of the city—abandoned warehouses, shadow economies, and people who’ve fallen through every crack—he must decide what kind of man he’s becoming. One who runs. One who fights. Or one who finally stands still long enough to care.
Bummin It is a sharp, darkly funny coming-of-age novel about survival, first love, and the dangerous line between pretending to be lost and actually becoming it.
EYES LIKE GODS
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On an island where stone watches, fire whispers, and gods demand obedience, belief is the most dangerous force of all.
After the ruling clans slaughter his family, Akolo rises from grief into legend—the youngest leader of a forbidden uprising determined to tear down the Birdman and the divine order that protects him. Akolo does not fear the gods. He believes they are inventions of power, myths carved into stone to keep the weak obedient. If the island is to be free, the gods must bleed first.
But the gods do not stay silent.
Across the island, Keoni, son of the Ariki, witnesses signs no story ever prepared him for: smoke rising from the fire mountain, sacred waters that swallow the living, statues that awaken with indigo eyes. Sickened by ritual sacrifice and rule by terror, Keoni tries to flee the machinery of power—but as the signs intensify, he is drawn inexorably into the heart of it, forced to decide whether the gods are real, mad, or merely reflections of human cruelty.
As rebellion spreads and omens multiply, Akolo and Keoni move toward a collision neither can escape. One would destroy the gods. The other fears what will rise once faith is shattered. Between them stands an island on the brink—where myth becomes weapon, belief becomes law, and even stone may choose a side.
Eyes Like Gods is a myth-infused historical fantasy of rebellion, power, and moral reckoning—where ancient belief shapes living reality, and the line between gods and men erodes with every act of violence.
NORMAL FOR ONCE
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Abe Prince has never had trouble being seen.
He’s loud, reckless, impossible to ignore—the kind of guy teachers warn about and friends orbit. The class clown. The chaos instigator. The one who turns humiliation into a performance and attention into armor. For years, that role has worked. Until it doesn’t.
When a stunt meant to keep things light spirals into real damage, Abe is forced to confront the truth he’s spent years dodging: that being unforgettable doesn’t mean being trustworthy, and being funny doesn’t mean being harmless. As consequences ripple outward—through friendships, romances, and a brutal betrayal that can’t be laughed off—Abe begins to see how much of himself has been built on distraction instead of responsibility.
Told through shifting perspectives, Normal for Once is a darkly funny, emotionally charged coming-of-age novel about masculinity, loyalty, and the cost of always playing the part. It’s about what happens when the joke stops working—and the terrifying quiet that follows when no one’s laughing anymore.
I’LL SHOW YOU EVERYTHING
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Take his eighth-grade brother out of the picture, and sixth grader Nolan Trimble is a middle-school nobody.
For a year, the back seat of his brother Michael’s Colson Imperial Flyer tandem bike has been the best seat at school—access to better friends, better afternoons, and the kind of borrowed confidence Nolan doesn’t yet know how to build on his own. But summer is coming, and Michael is moving on to high school without him.
Left behind is a boy who carries bookmarks of his favorite authors in his back pocket for secret advice. Who’s never really kissed a girl. Who’s never stood up to the bully who knows exactly where to hit him. And who is about to learn that admiration doesn’t transfer, courage can’t be borrowed, and childhood doesn’t end cleanly.
Set over the final days of middle school, I’ll Show You Everything is an emotionally intimate coming-of-age novel about masculinity, first desire, family silence, and the moment a boy realizes no one is coming to save him—least of all himself.
RUNES OF EVENIGHT
pitch: The dark side of PERCY JACKSON
status: 20% completed, shelved until the right time
length: 120,000 words
The biggest problem with fate is you can’t change it. Odin and the rest of the Norse pantheon realize their futures are sealed, but only The Great Wise One, Odin himself, dares to imagine how he can escape his fate. He remembers what it was like to be human. Sure, he’ll die one day, but at least he’ll get to choose his fate.
His hope lies in the life of an orphan boy who’s been adopted by a priest. If Odin can convince the youth to switch places with him, freedom will be Odin’s once again.