The Outsider: Stories

After a failed engagement, a mutual friend introduces a young man to a special young woman. It's the best thing that's ever happened to him...

A Knox Family Story
Part of the Enfield Undrowned universe
Will you be content to drift from situation to situation, to sail the course charted for you by others, or will you take charge of your life and chart your own course? For Jeff Knox, a teenager about to start high school in Enfield, Massachusetts, choosing to take charge of his life will affect more lives than just his own.

A Knox Family Story
Part of the Enfield Undrowned universe
Terrorist rage pierces the heart of the United States in a shocking and brutal attack. The attack jolts the country from its naïveté in one, horrifying instant; Jeff Knox, his family, friends, and neighbors are shaken from their comfortable lives in that same moment. How does a nation of three hundred million respond, and how does it change one man? The sequel to “A Charmed Life.”

Cal Otis had finished his to-do list, but wasn’t ready for bed. TV wasn’t cutting it, either. He decided to wander down the street to the club near his apartment he’d never been to. It would be the best thing he ever did …

A Story in the Enfield Undrowned Universe
The woods of Northern Maine offer challenges and opportunities unlike those in cities and towns in more populated portions of the United States. Jake Chartier expected a month-long vacation there would give him the opportunity to escape the pressures of his law firm. Life, however, often interferes with our best-laid plans …

Buckle up...

A Knox Family Story
Part of the Enfield Undrowned universe
Your mother is a kick-ass black-belt karate instructor and English teacher. Your father? A combat veteran Army Airborne Ranger paramedic with a penchant for saving lives on and off-duty. So, what are you going to do with your life? Something unexpected, that’s what, and you’re not going to take any shit, either…

A Story in the Enfield Undrowned Universe
Civil engineer Todd Rook feels he has little to show for his time on the planet other than a good job and a few possessions. It will take a former friend from his past to make him understand what he has, and what he still needs.

Jeff Tovette was the low man on the totem pole in the T'Sharan's geology department, and the only man. The outlook on the decade-long survey mission in the Beta Quadrant was good, but he didn't have any friends on board the ship yet. He just had seven of the most beautiful women he'd ever seen working with him in geology. And they were all senior to him.

When the prettiest girl in the high school surprises one of the school's biggest nerds with a kiss at a random coffee shop, the world around them changes for the better.