DEVIL’S CHEW TOY

The First Hayden & Friends Mystery Crooked Lane Books — Spring 2022

Gay, twenty-something school teacher and part-time blogger Hayden McCall is in trouble. The night’s date is missing, and the police think he has something to do with it. With help from new friends—Hollister, a what-you-see-is- what-you-got-a-problem? Black lesbian, and Burley, a stoner-baker giant—Hayden searches for the truth and the missing guy. But just staying alive is a tricky business when the enemy plays to kill.

Hayden & Friends Mystery Book 2

Eau du Venom

Publisher/Date — TBD

When Burley’s childhood friend, Kennedy Osaka, visits Seattle, Burley finds the A-List social influencer dead in her hotel suite and becomes the cop’s top suspect. If Hayden and Hollister are to save their friend, they must find Kennedy’s real killer. But in an online world where image is everything, not everything is as it appears, and no one, as it turns out, is to be trusted.