(to be publish by Adelaide Book on July 2020)
Synopsis:
Dogma, A Red Door, and A Birthday is a novel about the reunion of Leah and Adriel, a mother and daughter separated when at age fourteen, Adriel—with Leah's help—escapes home to avoid being forced into marriage by her father Richard.
The day of her eighteenth birthday, urged by a feeling of loss, Adriel decides to find her mother. Four years have changed her. She is now a blue-haired punk rocker with a girlfriend lover and a big bouncer friend who she brings along. These are characters that provide much needed humor to the story.
The same day, Richard is also eager to get home. He suspects that his wife has been speaking with an attorney behind his back, to leave him. In reality, Leah has been talking to a support group. She was a victim of forced marriage at thirteen, and has been molded for the role forced upon her. Throughout the day, the three characters expose their side of the story and their emotions, all the way until they converge at the house, and a new sinister secret is uncovered.