Before the vampire apocalypse, there was their love.
What would you say to a centuries old vampire who knew in knowing him would lead to your extraordinary death? When Melissa meets four curious strangers, who happen to know more about her than she knows about them, her presence in their lives ignites a fuse, shattering her innocence, and the comfortable existence the vampires had grown used to are forever altered.
Contains strong themes involving teens, gore, moderate violence, some sexual situations, and suicide. Not intended for readers under the age of 18.

Melissa and David had the perfect family, a perfect love. Only looks can deceive, and fortune can never be trusted. Awren finds the world unforgiving, paying for his parents decisions. Only the cost is richer than his own warm blood.
He never meant to find her, she just happened. As much as Awren tried hard to keep her from crossing that fine line, Willow pushed harder against him, blurring the line entirely. Awren and Willow find a comfortable existence in the small town of Fredericksburg, Texas. Living in the shadows of his parents, their existence appeared normal enough. Though when a...

It was bound to happen. The human attempt to exercise authority over vampires was fated to fail. Had humans learned nothing from the consequences of one race dominating another? The uprising of every breed of vampire brought governments to their knees, and left a path of destruction across every nation with cities buried under the dead. David and Melissa Grayson awake from a long slumber to the restlessness growing along their beloved picturesque English countryside. The revolt had spread to their estate nestled in the Cotswolds, the once quiet beauty rising with the smoke from the villages...

Don't Touch the Butterflies is the first in the crime thriller genre for me, and I am so proud of it. I hope it sparks a debate over the defects in our justice system, as well as ethics in media. Of course the critical dialog should be about how we regard crime in today's society. The demons that hide in the shadows don't have claws or razored teeth. They are sometimes our neighbors, our loved ones, our best friends, but thankfully it's more often an outsider we will never meet. With news available at our fingertips, our snap judgments breed evil as quick as our apathy, creating more...