Hello and welcome to my author page!

I love history and storytelling so much that I left my conventional 9-5 job to become a historical fiction author. One of the best parts about writing historical fiction in exotic locations is the travel!

I’m currently in the middle of a five-book historical seafaring adventure series that begins on the Greek island of Chios under 18th century Ottoman rule. It’s a fascinating time in history, where the ports of call in the Mediterranean Sea were true melting pots of east-meets-west cultures.

My Greek teenage main character, Sebastian Krizomatis, is a mastic slave who longs for freedom, wanting only to feel the salt spray on his skin and the wind in his sails. He escapes to the port of Smyrna (modern-day Izmir), where he learns in a silk textile workshop that there is more than one kind of slavery in the world. Through a chance encounter with Scottish Dr. Andrew Turnbull, Sebastian arrives on the Balearic island of Menorca in 1767, where he is faced with a new set of colonial power dynamics in the bustling British-occupied town of Port Mahón. If Sebastian can stay alive and out of prison long enough to travel with Dr. Turnbull to East Florida, what dangers await him on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, where Britain is trying to expand its empire and the American colonies are seeking their own taste of freedom?

Below are just a few of the photos I snapped during my travels in Greece, Türkiye, and Spain to research the first three books in the Merchant Tides series. If you like historical fiction set in sunny locations, coming of age tales featuring mouthwatering Mediterranean cuisine, or seafaring adventures with political overtones that speak to modern times, you can follow Sebastian’s exploits here.