2024 Young Author Award

Where the sunrises start and the day begins is where fourteen-year-old, Azalea Stanton waits patiently, watching the beauty of the world unfold. No one fully understands her wanderlust or ache for adventure, but is it truly so horrible to want to escape the shadow of her older sister, Florence?

This book explores the cultural exodus of India over the last forty years. It is a work based on Fantasy and Historical Fiction. It took the author nearly five years to complete it due to the extensive research needed in gathering historical facts.

Woven with history and forbidden romance, The Sun of God unveils the hidden world of Ancient Rome in the reimagined past of a young, ruthless Octavius as he defies all odds and rises to absolute power as Emperor Augustus, founding the Roman Empire and changing history forever.

A misguided student of theology named Cassandra has disturbed a sleeping Titan. As the Old One’s swarm of malevolent gods now unleash upon the world, it will be left to Cassandra to wield the powers of eternity as she attempts to save those she loves.

Tyler, a disenfranchised American expat, is trying to survive his first-year teaching in the Korean Hagwon system. As his self-isolating, culture-shock induced depression gets worse, however, he will need to draw on new resources to manage his deteriorating mental condition.