Uncharted Territory

Mountains, Missteps, and Mending Bonds…

During his junior year, high school track star and mountain climber Jack embarks on a climb with his famous but demanding father on Mount Tecumseh in the Oregon Cascades.

What begins as a bonding adventure turns into a disaster, nearly costing Jack his life and threatening to destroy his family.
As Jack recovers from the traumatic experience, he must find the courage to confront his emotionally distant father and build a deeper relationship with him. This heart-wrenching yet uplifting story delves into the complexity and fragility of families, relationships, and life itself.

Follow Jack and his father as they face physical challenges with great skill and strength and learn to do the same with the people they love, including each other.

With fast-paced, engaging prose, this story pulls the reader along from one adventure to the next. It's heart-wrenching, funny, profoundly real, and unforgettable—a book that will linger long after the final page.

Uncharted Territory is a compelling coming-of-age novel perfect for young adults and anyone who loves stories of overcoming fear and adversity. It's a great read for teens and parents alike, especially when shared.

You can join me as we explore fear and power, greed and human need in my short stories and novels, articles, interviews and essays. Using family relationships and the backdrop of historical events, I write to bring focus to the themes that drive our human race. My fiction is written for adults and young adults from the perspective of youth. The characters in these stories face a confusing world of hypocrisy and courageous honesty. The humor, friendships, and caring they bring to these situations help them forge new solutions to age-old problems.