Schooled

A homeschooler runaway turned schoolteacher and how she got there – Becky Proffer has her Evangelical life turned upside down when her parents separate. In the ashes of their family, she makes a new life for herself, despite a seventh-grade education, in college. In the years after, Becky looks back in an exploration of responsibility and the impact parents have over who their children become. 

A social experiment gone wrong-a Conservative Evangelical couple raised their massive brood of six children, an off-brand Brady Bunch, in the country and homeschooled them all. When the parents go through a divorce, the family was splintered but has kept doggedly limping along, the kids committed to one another despite severe dysfunction. The failure of the family and their way of life has each sibling figuring out how to begin their independent lives, with two chased off by the mother’s boyfriend. Out of that failure, the family is reborn, as the siblings become their own unit. A coming of age memoir in the Bible belt with all the associated religious and political awakenings, how these awakenings split families between those who chose the life and those who leave it, a story complicated by familial disorder but grounded in loyalty and integrity. 

Knowing is Half the Battle

Paralegal Alexis Gomez has always been unlucky in love-but it’s not for a lack of trying or foresight. Thanks to a bruja spell, Alexis can see how each potential relationship will end before it begins. What she does with that information is the journey, as the reader follows her use her abilities to try to find Mr. Right and questions-is it better to know, or not? Can knowing change everything?

If only she could use her skills to help her sister, caught in a custody battle with her alcoholic ex. In this modern take on Pride and Prejudice, with the court battle, and the slow gentrification of her city of Austin a present threat against her family’s happy home. When her abuela dies, what will home mean anymore? Alexis takes on it all, caught between a red headed lawyer who could save the day, and what her gift has shown her. Can she trust him? Can she trust anyone now?