Marduke Manor

Father Nick Llewellyn likes being a priest, even if his parish is dying. He likes order and routine and spending hours writing homilies that show off his background in philosophy because priests aren’t permanent so there’s no point in getting attached to anyone. But now his school principal’s out on medical leave and he doesn’t do parish...

Read the sequel to Deconstructing Kate!

Dr. Magdalen (Maggie) Hanlan is a renowned professor specializing in Catholic education. Her department chair hates her, so she’s never going to get tenure and her ex-fiancée, now a Catholic priest, has a parish school being smothered by the bingo program. When the bishop suggests Father Jake bring in...

Learn how Kate’s Family Started!

It’s 1986, senior year for Katherine (Kate) Stanley. Her boyfriend’s got sex on the brain, but she’d rather have a deep conversation. All her friends think she totally should fall for Joe, her best friend, but she’s just not interested. Or is she?

As an Autistic in an era when people would simply call a girl like...

Father Nick Llewellyn isn’t ready to leave his tiny parish with an ever-growing rural school. He’s got plans for expansion, but the bishop thinks he’s been there long enough. That would be all well and good, but does he have to send him to the parish where she is the school principal?

There are too many people rooting for him to turn his back on...

It’s the spring of 2019 and Kate’s eclectic family, well most of them at least, have settled in at Marduke Manor, formerly her old boarding school. Father Evan, the mystic priest, is convinced the end of the world is coming soon, but she’s more worried about Paul, her good friend and former priest, going to Canada to visit family friends she...

Book 5 in the Kate’s Family Chronicles!

Father Evan’s visions in Pilgrimage have become clearer as the COVID pandemic arrives at Marduke Manor and the world. While priorities shift in the wake of the virus, Dr. Kate Marduke and her brother, Bishop Matt Marduke, are still at odds about how the Catholic Church ought to proceed and...Kate is bored....