Someday

Steven grew up in a small south Mississippi town, beside a boy named Austal Moorer — and across the whole long reach of his life, he never stopped loving him. Now, looking back, he sets the story down without flinching: the slough, the keeping, the distance, the cost of a love held close for sixty years. A quiet, devastating novel about memory, belonging, and the lives we carry inside us.

Common Ground

Marsh Meriwether met Sumpter Hiott across a crowded fraternity house on an Iron Bowl weekend in 1995, and spent the next thirty years building a life with him (a country veterinary practice, a horse farm raised out of a wrecked and starving place in rural Alabama, a home) against everything the law, the church, and two families had arrayed against them. A tender, plainspoken novel about the home you build when no one will deed you one.

Still Waters

Troy Hammersmith returns to his late father's house on the Florida panhandle carrying a discipline of concealment he has perfected over a career he cannot talk about. What he does not expect, in a season meant for grief, is Casey, and the slow, deliberate making of a love that has to live in code.

Book 1 | Ebb Tide series

Landfall

A year into the life Troy and Casey have built in secret, the world begins to press in, the law they serve under, a half-packed bag, a sister's unraveling marriage, the question of a child, and a mentor's unsaid years running short of time. Landfall is the story of what a made life has to weather.

Book 2 | Ebb Tide series

Slack Water

A Lieutenant Colonel on Florida's Gulf Coast has spent twenty years building a life inside Don't Ask, Don't Tell, a son, a partner at the same base, a fluency in concealment. Then the repeal arrives. The third and final Ebb Tide novel is about what men do with a freedom they spent two decades learning to live without.

Book 3 | Ebb Tide series

Brackish

In the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, where the water is neither fresh nor salt but brackish, three families share a fish camp by the month, summer after summer. Brackish is the spare, elegiac story of a man who spent his life sixty yards from what he wanted and never crossed to it, and of the long, quiet reckoning that, after many years, finally brings him to his feet.

Jubilee

On Alabama's Eastern Shore, where old families keep their seats and their silences, three inseparable friends — Theo, Win, and Gray — have spent their whole lives being groomed to carry a name forward. Told across the single day of Theo's high-school graduation, Jubilee is a warm, luminous coming-of-age about first love, the weight of legacy, and the night the water gives up what it has been holding.