[LGBTQ+ New Adult Fiction] On the evening of October 8th, violinist and college student Noel Miller is murdered in a mysterious explosion. The primary suspect? Her girlfriend and fellow music student, Riley Davis, who was the first on the scene of the crime. Additional suspects include third-year soccer star, Lucia (Lucy) Peterson, who had a heated argument with Noel on the day of her death and currently has no evidence to prove where she was at the time of the murder. These are the details that junior criminal justice major, Piper Watson, is given when assigned by her professor to look for an alibi for Lucy in order to prove her innocence. In her quest to help Lucy, Piper makes a deal with the soccer player. Piper will help Lucy prove her innocence, and in exchange, Lucy, a well-known lesbian, will give Piper advice on how to win over her roommate she's been secretly in love with for half a year. All the while, a spinning mystery unfolds as to who was truly responsible for murdering Noel Miller, and why, on that fateful October evening.
(Published: 2021)
||WATTY'S SHORTLIST 2023|| [LGBTQ+ New Adult Fiction] When Mia Cunningham leaves her hometown in coastal Maine at 11 years old after her mother's death, her best friend, Leila Sutherland, gifts Mia a seashell "so she can hear the ocean and remember her home." Over a decade later, the two young women are beginning to navigate their post-grad lives. Leila has remained in Maine, afraid to branch out of her comfort zone, and Mia, after spending her college years in New York and unsure of her future, returns to the only place she ever felt home--Kenneburk, Maine. After a fateful meeting between the young women, Leila and Mia slowly begin to rekindle the friendship that had once been long forgotten. Their friendship is immediately tested, however, as Leila begins to develops familiar feelings and Mia, unsure of where she belongs, cannot help but wonder the direction her life is calling her towards. Will their friendship survive these new trials of adulthood, or should it have ended permanently the day that Mia left 12 years prior? Find out in "Can You Hear the Ocean?"
(Published: 2021)