Readers from across the United States voted on a topic for the author to use for National Novel Writing Month. There was one overwhelming choice. The resulting novel is The Leap. In The Leap, Rev. Adam Freeman, the minister of a large conservative church, finds that his life is in turmoil. The foundation upon which he has built his marriage, his church, in fact his whole life, is beginning to show cracks. And then a long lost love, rediscovered at a college reunion, threatens to destroy all three. The former lovers struggle with their growing feelings towards each other as they try to remain...

Jayden Allen Mindendorf is an eleven year boy with a reputation for being a bully. He enters fifth grade with a promise and a warning. He has a chance to make a new beginning, but is told that this is his last chance. Jay's life has been a mess as long as he can remember. His father being sent to jail, his mother struggling to make ends meet, his family's constant moving, and his problems at school all seem to work against him. He has been bullied his whole life until he meets up with the Foster Road Friends in fourth grade. This "gang" of bullies takes his life in a direction that he doesn't...

In this third book of the Accidental Bully series, we find that Jay is a kid who tries to see the best in other people, but tends to see only the worst in himself. As he and his friends return to Ridgeway Middle School for seventh grade, they find their lives and relationships becoming more complicated, not less. Their parents do their best to guide the kids through this difficult time; but, as Jay and his friends learn, not all adults are the same.