Mar 7Forced FriendshipFrom Welcome to Keystone Novel 11: Pressure: Chapter 7, Scene 1 About three hours after he had enjoyed afternoon recess with his school friends, Gerard found himself trapped in the tan leather passenger seat of his mother’s orange Porsche convertible, which was now carrying him up Water Road, the steep…Friendship6 min read
Feb 14Guessing Games Gone WrongFrom Welcome to Keystone Novel 11: Pressure: Chapter 5, Scene 4 Over at the Citrus Grand Country Club, Lucifer was feeling almost as stressed as Kaitlin as he sat at one of the club’s round tables half listening as the other young men on his regatta team discussed topics such…Relationships7 min read
Jan 24Very Different From MomFrom Welcome to Keystone Novel 11: Pressure: Chapter 8, Scene 1 Downtown at the Sunset Café, Loretta was currently waiting to give Lorraine her one and only chance to make a new impression as she and her father sat in one of the restaurant’s white-and-yellow-checked booths quietly looking over their…Dating After Divorce6 min read
Jan 17All Work and No PlayFrom Welcome to Keystone Novel 11: Pressure: Chapter 1, Scene 1 Outside fourteen-year-old Kaitlin Lawrence’s bedroom window, the last strains of winter sunshine that had been filtering through the slats of her white blinds all throughout Sunday afternoon finally completely faded out, leaving the sky high above the peaks of…Welcome To Keystone5 min read
Feb 22, 2021A Heart on TrialFrom Welcome to Keystone Novel 10: Take Me To Court!: Chapter 1, Scene 4 Unbeknownst to Johnny, Delia Drake was actually much closer to relenting and agreeing to reignite their relationship than she appeared to be whenever they encountered each other during school hours. So close in fact that, just…Soap Operas7 min read
Feb 15, 2021Family PlottingFrom Welcome to Keystone Novel 10: Take Me To Court!: Chapter 2, Scene 2 While his stepmother was attempting to leave the Canon party and head home, Buzz was hoping to soon be sending another family member back to the Hadly mansion with her as he sat at his mother’s…Fiction8 min read
Feb 8, 2021The Evidence of a First ImpressionFrom Welcome to Keystone Novel 10: Take Me To Court!: Chapter 3, Scene 1 Out in the Canon foyer where she had been waiting nearly twenty minutes for her mother to track down her father, Kiki sat with Devin on the mahogany wood bench that stood just outside the entryway…Soap Operas7 min read
Feb 1, 2021Grilled By The EnemyFrom Welcome to Keystone Novel 10: Take Me To Court!: Chapter 6, Scene 3 As Jody gave her sister a grateful smile, up on the bench, Judge Miller, who had paused in order to ask a court officer to take the medical report to the copier, looked up and cleared…Soap Operas9 min read
Dec 21, 2020An Unwanted Christmas GuestFrom Welcome to Keystone Novel 5: A Traditional Keystone Christmas: Chapter 5, Scene 1 Fifteen minutes after her younger sister had unexpectedly arrived home at the Victorian-style mansion in which they had grown up, Leticia, who had traded in her concert dress for a more casual outfit that consisted of…Christmas6 min read
Dec 14, 2020Family SecretsFrom Welcome to Keystone Novel 5: A Traditional Keystone Christmas: Chapter 12, Scene 1 By the time Christmas Eve arrived a week and a day after his hometown’s annual tree-lighting ceremony, Edward still wasn’t feeling anymore joy and cheer than he had when he had first boarded the plane to…Christmas8 min read