Past This Point is Nicole's debut novel, published pre-Covid just months before the virus hit the US. It has won several awards including Indies Today Best Book of the Year 2019, 1st place in the High Stakes Thriller category for Chanticleer International Book Awards, and first place in Latino Books into Movie Awards.

Synopsis: 

Karis Hylen has been through the New York City dating wringer. After years of failed relationships, she abandons her social life and whittles her days down to work and spending time with her dog, Zeke. Her self-imposed exile ends up saving her life when an untreatable virus sweeps the east coast, killing millions. 

Alone in her apartment building, Karis survives with only Zeke, phone calls to her mom, and conversations with two young girls living across the courtyard. With the city in a state of martial law, violence and the smell of rotting corpses surround her every day. But her biggest enemy is her own mind. As cabin fever sets in, vivid hallucinations make her question her sanity. In addition to her dwindling food and water stash, Karis must now struggle to keep her mind in check. 

When a mysterious man enters the scene, she hopes she can convince him to help her make it to the quarantine border. With the world crumbling around her, Karis discovers her inner strength but may find that she needs people after all.

In 2012 Nicole began writing crime thrillers with long time friend, Steph Mullin, starting with The Family Tree, which went on to win multiple awards including Best Suspense/Thriller by Suspense Magazine and 2021 Best Book in Mystery/Suspense for American Book Fest

Synopsis:

The DNA results are back. And there’s a serial killer in her family tree…

Liz Catalano is shocked when an ancestry kit reveals she’s adopted. But she could never have imagined connecting with her unknown family would plunge her into an FBI investigation of a notorious serial killer.

The Tri-State Killer has been abducting pairs of women for forty years, leaving no clues behind – only bodies.

Can Liz figure out who the killer in her new family is? And can she save his newest victims before it’s too late?

Synopsis:

On May 26, 2004, Jessie Germaine rode her bike into the forest and disappeared…into thin air.

Margo hasn’t been back to Lake Moss since her friend went missing. But as she returns, the news breaks. Her hometown’s swimming hole has been Jessie’s grave for fifteen years.

Digging out her old diary, and steeling herself to face unfriendly ghosts from her past, Margo sets out to help a documentary crew as they return to investigate the infamous case the police bungled.

In a town where everyone knows everyone, the killer is certain to be close to home. But the question is: How close?

Beat Me To It is the writing duo's 4th novel, set to publish on 2/16/27, with praise from NY Times Bestselling author, Lisa Gardner.

Synopsis:

After nearly fourteen years of a disintegrating marriage, Odette Baker decides that this is the day she will kill her husband, Beau. But when she returns to their upscale Atlanta home, Odette finds the powerful financier dead on the living room floor. Someone beat her to it.

When police and paramedics arrive, Odette loses control over what was once a foolproof plan. Her desperation is getting real. With potential evidence pointing straight at her, Odette must find out who killed her husband before she’s convicted of a crime she never committed. While her new lawyer, Vivienne DeMarco, works the legal end, Odette goes rogue to investigate the clients, friends, and mistresses in Beau’s devious life. One of them must have reason to frame her for murder.

The trail of lies and deception Odette follows runs deeper and darker than she could’ve imagined. And more dangerous too. Now Odette must put herself in a killer’s crosshairs―to save her own life.