For years, Hashim has tried to drown his homosexual longings in prayers and piety while his mother plots his future marriage. Today, he turns eighteen, and on a grant from the Mosque’s scholarship fund, he will soon be heading to an Ivy League university. As Hashim attends the Friday prayers, he learns his mother has set a date for his engagement to the niece of the local Muslim strongman. Now Hashim has only twenty-four hours to find a way to call off the engagement without invoking the wrath of his mother and his intended fiancé’s family. Unable to bear the thought of entering into a doomed marriage, Hashim turns to his best friend Alex, who doesn’t know Hashim is gay. When Alex’s plan to help his friend backfires in the worst possible way, the two young men must face their deepest fears or stand to lose all they hold dear.

Catch You If You Fall is the book one of The Rise Up Trilogy about three best friends on the threshold of adulthood. Before Hashim, Alex and Maryam can find their place in this world, they must come to terms with their past and learn to confide in each other as they are confronted by intolerance and ignorance, corporate greed and governmental inaction that threaten to rob them of their future. Inspirational, harrowing, intense and deeply moving, this trilogy presents a ray of hope amidst terrible hardship, misfortune and loss.

Red is the color of blood, sacrifice, danger, and courage. It’s also associated with heat, passion, and sexuality. When two people meet unexpectedly with an inexplicable attraction that defies common understanding…it can be called RED SIN.

Julia and Van found one another in a shaken snow globe. Stranded in a blizzard, they embraced being two individuals with no last names. The plan was to walk away from each other with no regrets—until that plan changed.

Julia’s life was delivered a staggering blow the day she discovered her fiancé’s infidelity. The night she met a handsome stranger, one who showed her the possibility of a life filled with more than the fulfillment of expectations, she took a chance.

When it comes to business, Donovan Sherman is a wolf—a bloodthirsty carnivore who leaves wounded prey and victims in his wake. He learned from the best, his onetime nemesis and now-mentor, Lennox Demetri, who showed him that opportunities are only ripe for those willing to risk it all, a lesson Donovan took to heart.

With Julia McGrath, Donovan must decide if this beautiful woman who showed him the meaning of red sin will fall victim as his prey or if after experiencing the unbridled passion, there is more that he wants.