Joseph Snyder-Kloos

This coming-of-age story features our heroine Addie who is about to turn 30. Everything a good girl is supposed to do, she's done it. So why isn't it working? At what point is it no longer noble, but stupid, to continue doing the right thing if it's only making her miserable.

When a spunky college student drives down to LA to visit her sister and her live-in boyfriend, she inadvertently causes domestic turmoil by bringing up the elephant in the room: if they've been together for so long, why haven't they gotten engaged yet?

Six young people head up to a cabin in the woods of Northern California for a rustic Independence Day retreat, only to find themselves going through their own personal crucibles at the threshold of adulthood.

Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.