Stacy Walsh

Sam wants what he believes most people want, acceptance, love, maybe even a commitment someday. When Sam meets Casey at Westside State University, he thinks he has found the perfect person to start his life with. Sam thinks he has found the woman of his dreams. Follow along with Sam through the years of his union with Casey within a world where the rules have changed. Men are no longer the more powerful gender; women have claimed that role. Explore what happens to Sam within this type of world when he chains himself to an unsafe partner. Experience how a society built on a power imbalance impacts all those that reside within it. How much can one person endure before they descend into madness? How much can one’s own self-worth be suppressed before they snap? Sam is about to find out.

Veda is damaged. When Veda was 12 years-old she and her mom left behind their hometown and the scene of an ugly divorce to move into an odd little house with a peculiar past located in the rural town of Belmore, Missouri. When Veda meets the coolest girl in school Sass (aka Sasha) on her first day at Belmore Middle School she thinks things are beginning to look up for her. However, what ensues is a twisty and tumultuous toxic friendship that grows between the two girls throughout their school years until disaster strikes in the form of an unexpected death at an innocent teenage sleepover. Now, an adult Veda attempts to unravel the trauma that occurred in her childhood home by researching the mysteries that surround the house and its former occupants. But what Veda finds isn’t the happily ever after she was hoping for. Told through multiple POV’s and back and forth timelines, Soil is a novel that explores what people can be capable of when pushed to their limits.