A Novel
Seven Hills
Some places don’t let you leave. They just wait to see if you’ll come back.
Jasper, Oklahoma · Coming 2026
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The Story
Three kids. One town. The hills that watched them grow.
Grace Ryan, Percy Walker, and Clay Boyd grew up together in Jasper, Oklahoma, in the long shadow of the Seven Hills — towering chat piles left behind when the mining boom moved on.
Towns like Jasper have a way of holding on. As the three friends grow up they learn that leaving a place is complicated — and that the love you carry for the place that formed you is the hardest thing to abandon.
Seven Hills is a novel about friendship, memory, faith, and the complicated love we carry for the places that made us.
Available now in paperback and Kindle
An Excerpt
“I used to sit under this bridge after it happened—the accident. It was so quiet until someone drove across. When cars crossed, they pounded the boards. The rumble washed over me. Grit sifted onto my hair and dress. I felt like one of Grandma’s snickerdoodles, covered in sugar and cinnamon. I felt alive again, pulled back from a pit I couldn’t climb out of. Nobody knew I was there but the rabbits and squirrels. Percy watched the dark water slide beneath the bridge. Just then, a car approached and rolled across the bridge. He had never thought of noise as something that could bring a person back to life.”
Themes & Mood
The weight of place
Friendship & Memory
Three lives braided together in childhood. A novel about who we become when we leave home, return home, and realize we are still searching for home.
Faith & Courage
Sunday mornings, baseball, and small acts of bravery that shape our lives and hold a town together when the boom is long gone.
Coming 2026
Be the first through Jasper
Seven Hills arrives in October of 2026.
