Carter - Stories

Andrew Highmore's world has shattered. His boyfriend is gone, a traumatized teen is hiding in his guest room, and a violent threat from his past is circling his home. To protect his makeshift family, the gentle law student must become the ruthless strategist his father once was, forging a dangerous alliance to dismantle an empire of hate—one bolt and one secret at a time.

They stole his country. Now he’s stealing their Presidency.

Three years after the US annexed Canada, the "Northern Territory" is a resource colony under martial law. Governor Will Carter knows the military war is lost, so he opens a new front. Leveraging a loophole in the annexation treaty, Will launches a hostile takeover of the White House.

Facing the tyrant who erased his homeland, Will must master the American political machine to dismantle it from the inside. But to save his people, he risks becoming the very thing he hates. Can he liberate Canada without becoming the Emperor of America?

Lydia, needs a date for her brother's wedding. Her target? Orel, the reclusive Merrick brother who catalogues graveyards and barely speaks. To get to him, she blackmails her mechanic cousin Finn into a double date with Orel's brother, the tightly-wound auditor Oliver. But Finn and Orel share a decade-old secret, a trauma orchestrated by their charming, predatory brother Tarquin. To stop Tarquin's rise, this unlikely alliance must weaponize their past against him—and in the process, reclaim the love stolen from them in a rotting barn. A story of revenge, rust, and rebuilding on broken ground.

Two broken boys, one collapsing town. Garrett was the golden-boy quarterback until his knee—and his future—shattered. Now he’s a secretary in a glass box, choking on resentment. Finn is the beautiful, feral foster kid hiding self-inflicted tattoos under mechanic’s coveralls, running from a past that won’t let go. They’re supposed to hate each other. In the greasy dark of an auto garage, hate gets confused. It’s messy, brutal, and the only thing that makes either of them feel alive. But in a place where everyone’s watching, their private war might just destroy them both.

Ahh Granny's got a plan for her little Alley Cat.

Alvin must navigate the diabolical machinations of a woman hell bent on getting him out of his rut.
The trouble is, it involves a certain gardener named Tabby, while dodging the attention of the Higgins Clan and navigating the web of twisted games that spans the entire town.

Will he survive with his bachelordom intact, or is he doomed to a happily ever after fate half baked into a Hallmark nightmare?

XX Book 3 of the ORDER Trilogy XX

The King of the North

You want the throne, you'll pay in pain,
In the North, it's he who reigns.
The price is blood, the law is steel,
A truth this frozen land makes real.
So bring your claim, a fool's crusade,
You'll learn the choice your pride has made.

XX Book 2 of the ORDER Trilogy XX

The fight is no longer political—it's personal.

The constitutional crisis that put Will Carter in the Prime Minister’s office isn't over—it’s evolving. Will must now fight a sophisticated terror network, The Order, while building a fragile new government. To survive, he relies on his husband, CSIS Director Andrew Carter, to fight the war in the shadows.

But when Andrew makes a bloody sacrifice, stepping across the line to save his family, a trap is sprung. Andrew descends into a paranoid war for his mind, forcing the ultimate question: Can the protector survive the necessary evil he wields?

*** Book Two of El Coyote ***

Brian Higgins is hiding a lie.
He must convince the boy he loves to go on a dangerous mission for the Canadian Government.
His handler knows that Alex Alvarez is the son of the elusive Grey Eminence: El Coyote
Now in a race against time to stop the Canadian Hydro Electric system from collapsing and taking down the entire US Power Grid with it, Brian must convince a boy he's lying to to do the right thing.
Meanwhile the Water Wolf stalks it's prey in the great Canadian Wilderness.

A stolen formula, high stakes in the world of GMO's and billion dollar Agri-farm industries.

Alex Alvarez has to find the son of the man who stole it.
Hidden in plain sight in the middle of a small town High School on the edge of the Capital Region.
Armed with his wits, and a plucky side kick turned pastry Chef named Brian, Alex's search begins.
However he's not the only student hunting amidst the sheep.
Play to keep, find the boy. Don't get lost.
Alex is running out of time.