People always ask where story ideas come from, and honestly, sometimes they arrive as a scene, sometimes as a character, and sometimes as one question I just can't let go of.
For Unstable Bonds, it started with this:
What happens when the truth is not just hidden, but actively shaped into something else?
That idea stuck with me for a long time. The more I turned it over in my head, the more I realized I did not just want to write a thriller about secrets. I wanted to write a story about...
If you like thrillers that start quiet and then tighten their grip until you are checking your own phone like it might do something, Last Seen Online is built for you. This is a small-town winter story with modern dread at the center of it. Eden is dead, so why is her phone still texting?
Here’s the quick pitch. Last Seen Online is a YA techno-thriller set in a snow-muted Vermont town where grief does not stay neatly contained. After Eden’s death, messages start showing up from her number....
I live in northern Vermont, and winter here is not background noise. It is pressure. It presses people indoors, it presses routines into ruts, and it presses secrets tighter because nobody can outrun anything when the roads are bad and the nights come early.
That’s where Last Seen Online started for me.
Not with a missing person poster. Not with a dramatic chase scene. With something quieter and worse.
A teenager dies, and the town does what towns do. People grieve, people speculate, people...
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