Literature that lingers long after the final page.

From pizza man to wanted man...

In the explosive Latin music scene of the 1990s, an ambitious young filmmaker with almost no experience, and even less Spanish, talks his way into directing music videos for major record labels and some of the biggest stars in regional Mexican music.

Before long, he becomes known as “El Gringo del Norte,” building a reputation for productions as daring and unpredictable as the people financing them. His ambition carries him from Tijuana bars and Hollywood boardrooms into a dangerous world of powerful executives, counterfeit cash, kidnappings, border crossings, wild animals, and budgets funded by men who do not accept failure.

Then comes the opportunity that could define his career: an impossibly ambitious production at a medieval castle in Spain involving a celebrated actress, a lion, and a running of the bulls. But when the project spirals violently out of control, everything he has built begins to collapse.

Alone, injured, and pursued by the Spanish police, he must summon the courage to survive, escape, and find his way home.

Darkly funny, brutally candid, and almost impossible to believe, $panish Blood is a roman à clef inspired by the author’s real experiences inside the Latin entertainment industry where anything is possible... right up until it isn’t.

Southern California, 1957. Evangeline "Sis," eight years old, and her brothers spend their days roaming a sunlit landscape of fragrant orange groves, dusty roads, irrigation ditches, and endless possibilities for mischief. But beneath the beauty of their rural paradise, something sinister is hiding.

When the children venture into a forbidden grove, they discover an isolated shack, and encounter a terrifying stranger they know they will never forget. Afraid of punishment and desperate to protect their emotionally fragile mother, they keep what they saw a secret.

Then a young girl is found murdered.

Convinced they may know the killer, Sis and her devoted older brother, Eddie, secretly write to the authorities. But their innocent attempt to do the right thing goes disastrously wrong. Their words are distorted, suspicion falls on the father of Sis's closest friend, and prejudice spreads through the community faster than the truth.

Now two frightened children must find the courage to confess what they have done before an innocent family is destroyed, and before the real monster hidden among the trees strikes again.

Told with warmth, dark humor, and the unflinching honesty of a child trying to understand an adult world, In the Groves is a gripping story about growing up, about family, friendship, guilt, and the lasting consequences of fear. Set against the beauty and tension of 1950s California, it asks a haunting question:

What happens when children tell the truth, but the adults hear only what they already believe?

Marine biologist Ife Adeyemi has spent two decades studying the world's dying reefs, building a career on a single principle: observe, record, do not get attached. But when her estranged father dies, she is pulled back to Ita-Oginin, the Niger Delta fishing village where her mother vanished when Ife was eleven, and where the water is said to keep its own ledger of the missing.

The village has changed. The creeks are silting, the fish are gone, and a foreign oil concern is buying land from families who cannot afford to refuse. But the old stories have not changed: stories of a woman who walked into the mangroves at dawn and was never seen again, of a pact the elders made with the river, of a debt that has come due.

As Ife pieces together her mother's final days from the fragments left behind, a partially finished field journal, a disputed inheritance, and a neighbor who remembers too much, she begins to understand that the sea she has spent her life studying scientifically has always been asking her a question she refused to answer.

What the Tide Remembers is a haunting, deeply felt novel about inheritance, grief, and the truths a place will keep until someone finally returns to claim them.