The day Martin “Kage” Kincade walked out of prison, he planned to go home quietly.

Seven years behind bars stripped him down to what remains when violence is taken away: faith, restraint, and hard-won conviction. He’s no longer the reckless young man who went in-but freedom has a way of testing what a man truly believes.

When an innocent man is arrested in a public park—his marriage proposal still echoing in the air—Kage recognizes the pattern instantly. Accusation first. Truth later. Sometimes never.

On his very first day out, Kage must choose whether to protect his fragile second chance or stand for justice when it costs him anonymity, safety, and rest. He can walk away. No one would blame him.

But some lines, once seen, cannot be ignored.

Where Men Stand is a story of redemption lived rather than claimed, faith tested under pressure, and hope that holds fast when the world shifts. It’s about men who don’t posture, don’t perform, and don’t drift-because freedom isn’t proven by where a man walks.

It’s proven by where he stands.

Thou shalt not kill.

But someone already tried.

Investigative journalist, Trina Vaughn, wakes in a hospital with a bullet wound and no memory of the attack—or why her partner has vanished without a trace. When her home is broken into and a second attempt is made on her life, she’s forced to rely on the last man she ever expected to trust.

Martin “Kage” Kincade, an ex-con turned pastor, knows about violence. He also knows redemption is hard-won and easily questioned. Especially when the woman he’s protecting doesn’t know whether to fear him—or believe in him.

As danger closes in, Trina and Kage must unravel a deadly conspiracy that stretches from a shattered memory to a small-town garden center hiding more than flowers. With a suspicious detective watching their every move, and a killer growing bolder by the day, trust becomes a lifeline neither of them can afford to cut.

In a town built on secrets, surviving means breaking silence—and confronting the truth behind The Sixth Commandment.

When waitress Georgiana Ward finds a note on her shattered windshield that reads You’re next, she knows her violent ex-husband has returned to Cedar Haven. The police can’t locate him, and anonymous calls keep coming. All Georgie wants is to protect her ten-year-old son and survive Christmas in one piece.

She doesn’t expect Jackson Brenneman, the quiet man in booth seven, to become her safest place.

Jackson came to town to oversee construction on a movie star’s mansion—not to get involved with the locals. But when Georgie’s past turns deadly, he steps in with steady hands, fierce protectiveness, and a faith he thought he’d lost.

Just when their fragile connection deepens, a Hollywood charmer swoops in and Jackson’s old scars convince him Georgie deserves a more glamorous life than he has to offer.

But grace doesn’t replace broken things—
it rebuilds them.

This Christmas, love, danger, and second chances will test them both… and lead them toward the family neither expected to find.

This is a stand-alone novel featuring cameos by characters in the True North Brotherhood series.