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Empty Spaces

Cancer, miscarriage, and Abrahamic sacrifices.

Does the Savior really meet us in our empty spaces?

Young Adult Series

The first two books in my young adult coming of age series, Inspired by Faith, have been given new covers and are now available on Amazon Kindle Unlimited and in print.

I write YA novels under the pen name, J. D. Brown

  • She's been left for the summer at the last place she wants to be. Everything is falling apart back home. Could the secrets she uncovers be the answer to her problems?

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  • He's been taking care of his family and battling social anxiety. But when his mom remarries, he's not sure he can do it all anymore.

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Work In Progress

“I’d been imagining Dad like that since he left—skinny teenage boy, dark hair dripping wet from a Seattle storm, hitch hiking on an endless road to sunshine.”