There's a reason the stories I tell dive deep—into trauma, into twisted relationships, into the spaces most people would rather look away from.

Part of that comes from being shaped by authors like Edgar Allan Poe, who never shied away from the shadows of the human mind.  But more than that... it comes from life.  From the kind of experiences that leave bruises beneath the skin.  From walking through my own darkness, and realizing that healing doesn't come from pretending it isn't there.

It comes from facing it.  Naming it.  And choosing, over and over, to keep going anyway.

My stories live in those gray areas—those messy, uncomfortable places that blur the line between right and wrong, good and bad, victim and villain.  Not to glorify pain.  Not to shock.  But because these things happen.  And pretending they don't—sugarcoating reality to make it more palatable—only deepens the silence around people who have already been hurt.

But that's never where my stories end.

What I want readers to find in my work isn't just darkness.  It's the possibility of something beyond it.  The idea that change is real, even if it's hard.  That healing is possible, even if it's lifelong.  That there can be light at the end of the tunnel—but not without cost, not without effort, not without scars.

Sometimes that change requires outside help.  Sometimes it takes a moment that shatters everything.  But it always, always takes work.  Work that doesn't stop at a neat little happy ending.  But because real growth is messy.  Ongoing.  And never guaranteed.

In Twisted Obsession, Damien doesn't magically "get better."  He chooses therapy.  He confronts himself.  He keeps showing up, long after the final page.  Because love doesn't fix you.  Only you can do that.  And not everyone will.  Not everyone wants to.  That's their decision to make.  Just like it was mine.

These stories are for the people still in the tunnel.  For the ones who've crawled out and don't know who they are anymore.  And, maybe, for the ones who've never had to go through it—to remind them that life is more complicated than it seems.

This is the heart of what I write: Not tragedy.  Not romance.  But consequence.  And choice.  And the strength it takes to become the person you were never given the chance to be.