"As we speak, many are afraid of the dark. But we don't get to be. Lots of unspoken wickedness goes bump in the night. And we get the chance to stop that bump, and heck, every now and then bump right friggin' back."

--Excerpt from SMILING FACELESS WOMAN

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Alex prepares to graduate, all of his burnout and overachieving finally about to pay off. But he struggles not to get distracted when strange occurrences begin to happen in his dorm room late at night. At the same time, he reconnects with old friend and fellow mall rat, April, who helps remind him to relax, lighten up, live, laugh, love, and to enjoy each day. Together, they listen to emo music, play Nintendo DS Lite, exchange Chuck Norris jokes and appreciate bad puns. He desperately tries to course correct his life becoming a love story or a ghost story when he meets paranormal investigative team, SPIRAL, finding out the bizarre truth that he is "sensitive" and is recruited to assist with an infamous, terrifying, complex case. While he attempts to walk along this tightrope of classes, friends with benefits, now hunting unseen things that go bump in the dark, there may be an ominous and overarching reason for everything, a greater mystery unfolding, plus a dangerous and unexpected twist awaiting him...

SMILING FACELESS WOMAN is a textured, nostalgic, cerebral thriller that dissects college life versus the so-called real world, crosses blurry lines between just friends or more than friends, transports readers back to the age of Sony Ericsson and the Motorola Razr and early internet culture, and explores the possibility of an afterlife through a scientific, supernatural and spiritual lens.