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Julieta and the Diamond Enigma

A cursed diamond. A thief on the run. And one very busy young detective!

Nine-year-old Julieta is finally about to put a purple pin in her family’s world traveling map! She’s off to Paris to help her art-handler dad collect pieces for a new exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Sadly, they must leave Julieta’s very pregnant mother behind, but they’re sure they’ll be back before the baby is born.

Julieta sees the best of Paris: The Eiffel Tower, the Sacré-Cœur, and plenty of great art. But things go awry when she and her Dad walk in on a thief stealing the exhibit’s most prized piece, the Regent Diamond—a priceless cursed diamond with a shady history.

As Julieta runs for help, she accidentally frees the thief instead! Now her Dad’s job is in danger and he’s become a suspect. They might not even get back to Boston in time for her brother to be born. Can Julieta determine who the thief really is before it’s too late?

Want to learn more about how this book came to be? Check out my appearance on Lee & Low Books  “Tea Time Talks” in conversation with TU Books publisher Stacy Whitman and my editor Elise McMullen-Ciotti.

Status: Sold to Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low. Out now!

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Works in Progress


Untitled Julieta Sequel

Julieta goes on more adventures around the world. More to come!

Status: Work in progress


Flying Down

Six-year-old Vero desires nothing more in the world than to become a Papantla flyer, just like her uncle Tizoc. However, on the first day of training she encounters an obstacle: she is afraid of heights. Knowing she’ll routinely have to climb a sixty-foot pole in order to perform the ritual, her fear threatens her dream. Instead of actively fighting to overcome her phobia, Vero begins to focus on other aspects of the flyer’s training, until she can no longer escape the challenge.

Status: Currently querying manuscript


Untitled YA

During the peak of drug violence in the border, sixteen-year-old Mexican-American Andie Knight finds herself caught between keeping her family together and doing what is right. Her father, a drug-cartel lieutenant in El Paso, TX, enlists her as a gun smuggler to Ciudad Juárez, immersing her in a world she despises.

Status: Work in progress