Beautiful fourteen-year-old Svata wants out of what she sees as a hopeless downward slide into impoverished motherhood, and forced marriage, typical of girls in her eastern Balkan village. Konna, her closest friend, wants only to graduate high school and attend the university in Sofia, so she can earn a steady middle-class living. But the appearance of an underworld figure, collecting a gambling debt from Konna’s father, changes Konna and Svata’s plans. Radically. A few years on, 2,200 kilometres to the NW, in Hamburg, Germany, national footballer Erik von Auxmeier, is called by his parents and told about a video featuring him as the star of a sex scene with a man and woman he swears he has never met. Unless Erik’s family want to see that footage on the 5:00 news, the blackmailers are demanding €1,000,000. Within the hour, Ariel d’Alkov (protagonist from 1st novel, Falsework), an architect and former member of an elite division of the Israeli Defense Forces, is coerced out of his beachside vacation in Eastern Ontario and flown to Hamburg to bring order to the lives of the victims entangled in this destructive and pervasive web of human trafficking.

My second novel follows a teen aged male wanna-be rocker as he navigates his way through family dysfunction, school, sex, therapy, and coming of age in 1970s Oakville, Ontario. First chapter below.

My first novel, Falsework: A Valediction, noted above, follows a family of adult children, born in France and raised in Ontario, as they navigate the fall out of the discovery of their deceased father’s remains in an ancient wine cellar in Burgundy.