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Gary Clemmens is dead. Only Jo Prescott knows how deeply his secret cruel streak ran.

A high school sports star and the son of a local evangelical pastor, Gary’s death while serving in Iraq sends shock waves through his hometown in Maine. The death of the town’s golden boy especially troubles the Prescott sisters, Georgie and Jo.

When Georgie tells Jo that she has discovered photos of shocking war crimes linked to Gary, Jo is faced with the choice to keep his secrets and let him be remembered as an all-around good guy, or use what she knows to get ahead.

After Jo’s journalism professor pushes her to submit the story to a national magazine, the attention it receives tests everything the sisters know of the ties that bind—and the point at which they break.

My debut novel GOOD GUYS is forthcoming from Melville House in fall 2026.  Support your favorite local bookstore with a preorder, ask your local library to get a copy, or preorder from any major retailer online.

This collection draws from sermons I've given over the last five years. Here's an excerpt:

"It is not so easy, it turns out, to be created. It is not so easy to owe one’s life to a god who is not done with you yet. It is not so easy to understand the depth of the reality that we are not our own, that God was no more with us at our first breath than at this one. It is not so easy to bear the changes that come with age, not so easy to feel exiled from the people we once were and unsure of what we will become. It is not so easy to survey the wasteland places in our lives, to feel called forward when we have not yet made peace with our past. It is not so easy to know, at bedrock of our brains, that our becoming is a process in which we play only a small part. It is not so easy to belong to a God who on the one hand can seem so very absent and on the other won’t leave us alone.  We cry, as if with the possessed men in the Gospel stories, What do you want from me?”

Forthcoming from One Subject Press in summer 2026.