The Dead of Cypress Creek

Releasing November 2025. Find it on Amazon. 

Seventeen-year-old Vivian Ports loves her unconventional home on the grounds of Cypress Creek Cemetery. Never mind the ghost stories her classmates conjure up about her home, she still finds the dead to be preferable company over the living. After a string of grave robberies and an accident that leaves her father unable to perform his duties as groundskeeper, the owners of the cemetery prepare to fire him and kick them out of the only home Vivian’s ever known. She can’t bear to lose her cemetery, and strives to save it by any means necessary. That’s when she meets Jesse Britten.

When the handsome stranger first stumbles into her life, he seems an ideal solution to Vivian’s problem—he has nowhere else to go and will fill in as groundskeeper for only room and board. But there’s something strange about Jesse that she can’t ignore for long. He doesn't understand basic things like how to work the microwave, he won’t talk about his family or where he came from, and he has what looks like a fresh bullet wound directly over his heart. When she pries further, she discovers he’s a Union soldier who died in 1863 and came back to life when his grave was disturbed. 

As the pair work together to keep the grave robber away from Cypress Creek and uncover the mystery behind Jesse’s reanimation, a romance blooms that shakes the defenses Vivian built up since her mother’s death. But Jesse’s not the only undead soldier in town. There are others, all under the influence of the grave robber, and all deluded into thinking they’re still in the middle of a war. If Vivian can’t discover what the grave robber wants with her town, and how to stop his army of the living dead, she faces losing much more than her cemetery but those she loves, even the ones already dead.