All For One: Love, War, & Ghosts is a tale of friendship, love, and youthful decisions that drive friends apart for decades. When the ghosts of Vietnam shove their way into the present, fear, uncertainty, and death follow.

 

Selected for The Strand Magazine's Spring Reading Guide.

Managing Editor, Andrew Guilli: “I truly loved it. It’s thoughtful, layered, and emotionally intelligent in a way that really stays with you. The tension works beautifully alongside the deeper themes — it’s exactly the kind of novel our readers respond to.”

 

Publishers Weekly Reviewer thanks to The BookLife Prize: "All For One is an easy read... The temporal shifts between the decades are smooth, thanks to a steady voice, providing continuity across the years and serving as a reminder of how a person’s past will bleed into the present... McGuinn’s words carry emotional resonance in the small details that serve to highlight the trauma of war, loss, and love without overstating these feelings."

 

Now available in print, digital, and audio formats.

 

Peg's Story: Detours starts with Peg looking back:

When I started high school in 1971, my plans for the future were not clear, but they included an exciting career that would take me all over the world, far from the boring small town of my parents. Instead, a series of detours became my life... It was easy to disappear for ten years.

 

Kirkus Reviews summarized the theme nicely: “In some ways, the novel is a brutal cautionary tale, showing how one mistake can spiral into a life-changing series of events. In another, however, it is a moving coming-of-age narrative about a girl who discovers herself amid extreme circumstances. A nuanced yet plainly told novel.”​

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For mature readers.

Running Away: Maggie's Story starts in Maggie's voice: "This is my last night in this house." By the time they realize she's gone, Maggie is in another state, about to run again from new dangers. When Peg realizes her daughter is not coming back, she knows she must find her quickly or they may never see each other again. Peg's missing journal from when she ran away as a teen is the only clue to Maggie's whereabouts.

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Originally published as Running Away, this novel won an Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Awards.

Judge Commentary: “I could not put this book down.”

Running Away: Maggie's Story was revised to more closely align with Peg's Story: Detours. 

For mature readers.

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The movie Running Away has been shown in Europe and is streaming.​

This is the School Edition of Running Away. The school edition is based on the original Running Away except, at the request of school personnel, words inappropriate for use in school were replaced with **. The journal entries Maggie reads and reacts to are from the original, in which Peg's story is relatively benign. 

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By the time they realize she's gone, Maggie is in another state, about to run again from new dangers. When Peg realizes her daughter is not coming back, she knows she must find her quickly or they may never see each other again. Peg's missing journal from when she ran away as a teen is the only clue to Maggie's whereabouts.

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The Booklife Prize: McGuinn's prose is deft and her dialogue rings true, skillfully rendering the weird, wonderful, and awful parts of adolescence. She also has a gift for plunging her characters into astonishingly dangerous and unsettling situations, ratcheting up the tension page by page while leaving readers to hope that it somehow works out.

 

Digital & Paperback versions now available. Middle Grade/YA.

Tough Times: Michael's beloved step-father died a year ago. Now his mother's gone too, with an empty pill bottle and a note saying to stay together. With help from the girl he likes, Michael starts a cross-country trip with his young siblings, hoping the grandparents they've never known will at least accept them, because "they're cute little white kids." While Michael navigates responsibility, grief, prejudice, fear, and his first romantic relationship, the police label his mother's death murder. They suspect Michael, but the killer is stalking the kids.

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One of five finalists in the YA division of Kindle Book Awards 2023.

Amazon Expert Reviewer: “The writing is good…the plot is gripping”

Publisher’s Weekly: “…issues of race and identity are nicely handled”

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Middle Grade/YA

In Alice, thirteen-year-old Nina tells the story of her mother, a totally uptight, proper, responsible French teacher whose department has been eliminated. It's always been just the two of them. Then the hippie father ​Alice has never talked about drops into their lives and Nina's perfectly proper mother unravels - revealing secrets, surprises, and the fire that will make her the Rosa Parks of the Taxpayers Civil Rights Movement.

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Chosen for Indie Spotlight, Coming-of-Age novels, Publishers Weekly, July 2026.​

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Judge, 25th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards: “Overall, one of the most interesting and useful novels I’ve seen.”

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Amazon Reviewer: “I …found myself laughing, crying and getting totally sucked into the story. Yet…the ethical storyline is still sticking with me”​

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Middle Grade - Adult

For more than 200 years, The Saturday Evening Post has been publishing a Who’s Who of American authors — Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Louis L’Amour, Jack London, Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Tyler, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Sinclair Lewis, among so many others. The Post continues to support the legacy of the storyteller.

 

This anthology includes 31 stories they consider the best from their 2016 Great American Fiction Contest, including Sheri McGuinn's "Maria Angelica's Baby." ​

 

Maria's always been a good girl. Now she has secrets she must keep hidden.