Mean Higher High Water

My so excited to share that my debut novel, Mean Higher High Water, will be coming out in early 2026!

In the near future, Nia is a graying and acerbic Millennial foraging through smoldering forests and combing beaches piled with plastic trash and near-forgotten technological debris. While fire and flood have become the new normal, a decades-long vendetta has led Nia to her present residency at a for-profit settlement populated by a cast of survivalist misfits and militant weirdos. Nearly any of them could be responsible for her loneliness, she just has to figure out who. But one morning, something washes up on shore that points to a deeper, maybe even metaphysical conspiracy: an oddly-familiar shoe—with the foot still inside.

Mean Higher High Water is a novel of fire, flood, loneliness, and lost love that takes the reader from a recognizable world of today to a post-collapse, post-capitalist economy forty years later. This darkly funny, yet reluctantly hopeful story predicts that humans will always find ways to survive—but no one is going to be very happy about it.

This is the epitome of “write the book you want to read” advice. I threw a lot of the things I love—complicated female characters, near future dystopias, mystery, revenge, peril, flashbacks, multi-POV, friendship, enemies to lovers, lovers to enemies, foraging, electric trucks, abandoned malls—into this book, and I just hope others will like it too.

There is still plenty to do to get it ready for publication, but it’s thrilling to be on this part of the journey.