Books
World of Shadow
World of Shadows follows The Greek, a retired smuggler, and his younger partner Irina, as they are drawn back into the criminal underworld to help a surrogate nephew search for a missing Chinese girl in Istanbul. What begins as a rescue mission becomes a deeper journey through loyalty, trauma, and redemption.
Wooing Wu
Wooing Wu is an offbeat love story set in late-20th-century New York City, where a cautious, twice-divorced poet falls for a Chinese doctoral student caught between two cultures. As romance brews, cultural clashes, misunderstandings, and moments of tenderness unfold in a mix of poetry, steamed flounder, and late-night karaoke.
Rizzo's World
Rizzo’s World follows a New York journalist whose life unravels after the murder of his best friend in Istanbul. As he investigates the crime with the unexpected help of his estranged daughter, Rizzo is forced to confront past relationships and navigate the emotional ties between New York and Turkey.
Out from the Shadows
This is Book 2 in The World of Shadows Series. It is a prequel to Book 1 (World of Shadows). After successfully completing a mission in Georgia for Ivan, the head of the Russian Gang, he is sent to an island until the trouble with the Georgian Gang is over. As a reward, Ivan sends 16 year old Irina, one of the trafficked girls in his brothel, to keep him company while he waits to be able to return to Istanbul.
Istanbul Days, Istanbul Nights
Istanbul Days, Istanbul Nights is a multicultural romantic dramedy set at a young performing arts university in Istanbul. When an ambitious bilingual production of Romeo & Juliet is greenlit, ten faculty and students—foreign and local—find their personal and romantic lives entangled in a story as dramatic as the play itself.
Night & Day
Night & Day reimagines A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 21st-century New York, where love is messy, magic is missing, and a diverse cast of characters stumble through modern romance. Amid heartbreaks and shifting desires, a theater professor’s chaotic attempt to stage Shakespeare’s play mirrors the unpredictability of love itself.
The Sometime Man
Two friends of 40 plus years since their Freshman year at college finally find themselves living in the same college town in Upstate New York: Ted, a high school English teacher who moonlights as a local celebrity singer/songwriter, and Joe, an alcoholic writer with a troubled past who is hired at the college as their writer-in-residence in their new MFA Program in Creative Writing. This dramedy follows them as they both become involved with women that will change the trajectory of their lives.
Harry
Harry Mancuso finds himself facing trouble at the college where he works when an official complaint of harassment has been filed against him, trouble with a stalled writing career, trouble with his first ex-wife and the bombshell she drops on him, and trouble with his daughter at home whose tenure at the college is jeopardized by the pending harassment complaint. All these troubles and the week has just begun.
