Doctor of Clinical Psychology | Fiction Author

My Gothic horror novel, A Song at Dead Man’s Cove is now available in paperback, hardcover and e-book format format!

Never turn your back on the ocean…

2023. Another person has disappeared at Dead Man’s Cove in coastal Washington. Jaded from her job at the historic Irving Hotel, Zarya wanders to the scene of the tragedy. She has heard her Russian mother’s tales of rusalki—vengeful spirits that have died unclean deaths near a body of water—and never paid them much attention. But now, on a misty headland beside an abandoned lighthouse, Zarya locks eyes with the rusalka and is chosen to be the next victim. She must unearth the siren’s tragedy before Rusalka Week, a period in early summer when water-spirits roam freely on land.

1850. Josephine has just joined her newlywed husband in Washington, in the lighthouse erected by local businessman Hurley Irving. Marriage is not quite what she expected, and her melancholia grows over the course of the winter. The medic prescribes pregnancy as the antidote. What he doesn’t realize is how far Josephine is willing to go in order to become a mother.

“A chilling, atmospheric blend of contemporary mystery and gothic folklore, wrapped in lyrical prose and deep emotional undercurrents”

—Alex Norton from Likely Story

“Haunting, engaging, and heartbreaking”

Anthony Avina

“The slow unraveling of secrets [...] keeps the tension taut and the pages turning"

—Jeyran Main from Review Tales

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Over time, I’ve built up a little collection of videos that never made it to YouTube. Some are…

  • on topics that feel too niche for the algorithm

  • reviews of books I don’t want to boost on my platform

  • more unfiltered than what I usually share publicly

  • etc.

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