THE QUETZAL’S TALE

a thriller set in con­tem­po­rary Guatemala

British Crime Writ­ers Asso­ci­a­tion Debut Dag­ger Short List, Mar­lene and Writer’s League of Texas Final­ist

Ardent ide­al­ist Lucy Clai­borne believes she has found pur­pose and con­tent­ment work­ing in a clinic among the K’iche’ Maya in the wilds of high­land Guatemala. When her beloved men­tor is mur­dered, that life shat­ters, and she vows to unmask his killer. World-renowned ornithol­o­gist Rafael Critz mas­ter­minds an inter­na­tional smug­gling oper­a­tion traf­fick­ing in rare birds and will kill to pre­serve the secret Lucy is doing every­thing to unearth. In this land whose laws and cus­toms she barely under­stands, Lucy turns to ded­i­cated doc­tor Diego Izarra, the man who betrays her even as he’s mak­ing pas­sion­ate love to her.

PACKAGE DEAL, OR THE BLUE JAY’S EGG

a roman­tic dram­edy script set in Austin, Texas

Win­ner, 2010 Romanc­ing the Script

Final­ist, 2011 Sto­ryPros Awards 4tS

Log­line: A career-obsessed archi­tect who never, ever wants chil­dren fights falling for a sexy, suc­cess­ful client who is her worst nightmare—the devoted widower-father of five.

THE APOLOGY

a comic romance script set in Nashville

Log­line: When a shopa­holic music exec­u­tive apol­o­gizes to every­one he’s done wrong, he rekin­dles long-lost love and must dodge a for­mer friend bent on whup­ping his ass.