Stories and Shorts
Some of my favorite pieces of writing never make it into a book, so I’ve collected them here. Some are full-length stories or novellas; others are snippets and scenes. Some are mysteries, and others are simply slices of Tai and Trey’s life. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.
And if you’d like to read the books and stories in narrative order (not necessarily the order I wrote them in, but according to the progression of the events in the series) you can find that list HERE.
The Seventh Rule of Swimming
I am lucky enough to have two protagonists in my series—my narrator, Tai Randolph, and her partner in both romance and crime solving, former SWAT cop Trey Seaver. Because I write the series in the first person point of view, I spend a lot of time in Tai's head's; "The Seventh Rule of Swimming" is the first time I've tried to write in Trey's POV.
It's a complicated place, Trey's head, but very interesting. For those of you meeting him for the first time, you need to know that he is still in recovery from a car accident that killed his mother and put him in a coma, leaving him with a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury). Three years later, he has trouble processing language and making peripheral connections. He has lost pieces of his memory, and his sense of identity is fractured. His recovery looks different every day, and is challenging for the people who know him, especially three people you'll see mentioned: Gabriella (his ex), Garrity (his best friend and former police partner), and of course, Tai, his romantic partner. But he has not given up. Not by a long shot.