My Story

The psychology techniques I used both on the street and in hostage situations better prepared me for the task of dealing with dysfunctional incarcerated and non-incarcerated students entering our 21st-century classrooms. After receiving a mandate from my supervisor, I left teaching at juvenile hall and was instrumental in forming Placer County's first military-boot camp-style school which was based on order, structure, and when necessary, discipline, to help our students prepare to return to their traditional schools. My second non-fiction book titled Hitting Rock Bottom, made Amazon's best sellers list (ebook) for 10 weeks. This is a novel where my former at-risk students (cadets) tell their stories and how the military-style bootcamp academy turned their lives around. The academy had a 94% success rate until it was terminated. 

It was at that time that I created FBI Agent Jeannie Loomis. To date there are seven novels in the series with number eight, Black Heart/Black Cell due for release in August 2022.