Not My Brother’s Keeper

Coming July 17, 2026

Not My Brother’s Keeper is a raw, emotionally honest novel about addiction, family, guilt, and the cost of trying to save someone you love.

I didn’t set out to write a book about addiction.

I set out to write a book about what addiction does to the people standing around it.

The parents who lie awake wondering if they’ll get another phone call in the middle of the night. The siblings who don’t know whether to help, walk away, or somehow do both at the same time. The families who keep hoping things will get better, even when they aren’t sure they will.

Not My Brother’s Keeper follows Collin as he watches his brother sink deeper into addiction while the rest of the family struggles to hold itself together.

It’s a story about love, guilt, anger, grief, and the helpless feeling of watching someone you care about destroy themselves while you run out of ways to stop it.

A lot of stories focus on the person battling addiction. This one focuses on the people who love them.

The people who keep showing up.

The people who keep hoping.

The people left carrying the weight when things fall apart.

While the story itself is fiction, many of the emotions behind it come from real experiences and real life. I wanted to write something honest about the impact addiction has on families because too often their side of the story gets overlooked.

If you’ve ever loved someone who was struggling and felt powerless to help, I think you’ll recognize parts of that experience in these pages.

Get Chapter One Free and follow along as the book approaches release.