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Step into a deeply interconnected literary universe where standalone stories collide and characters share a collective heartbeat. Written with the clinical authority of a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Michael C. Thompson’s Tribes of the Heart Collection wraps profound psychological healing inside fast-paced domestic drama. This raw, emotionally gripping series is a testament to Kintsugi—the art of mending what is broken with gold, letting the structure wobble, and finally choosing to be seen.
Anger's Bitch
Can one clean, bright act burn away the shadows of a violent past?
Lyndon “Gib” Gibson is trying to live a quiet life as an HVAC technician in Houston, keeping the violent "beast" of his past locked away. But when he impulsively thwarts an airport kidnapping, a viral video thrusts him into unwanted internet heroism, dragging his dark history into the digital spotlight.
Enter Yolanda Jenkins, a brilliant but guarded New York journalist writing an exposé for The Atlantic. As Yolanda digs into Gib's past, she unspools a sixty-year-old web of secrets, wrongful imprisonment, and a lost New York love that connects directly to her own world.
Anger's Bitch is a raw deconstruction of the "protective self," the clean ache of guilt versus the corrosive poison of shame, and learning how to sit with the storm rather than letting it control you.
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The Favorite Person
Available on Amazon October 2026
How long can you survive a relationship when you are walking on broken glass so gently you think you’re flying?
Sharp Houston professional counselor Brenda Collins has spent her career treating high-functioning professionals who burn their lives down because they are terrified to let go of the wheel. But Brenda’s pristine, sanitized world fractures when her twenty-four-year-old son, Andre, brings home his pregnant, highly volatile girlfriend, Kali.
Brenda recognizes the destructive pattern instantly: Andre is over-functioning to the point of exhaustion, systematically destroying his own engineering career to cushion Kali’s explosive, borderline-personality-fueled storms—running the exact same codependent survival script Brenda once ran. Andre has become Kali's "Favorite Person," the anchor she has outsourced her entire nervous system to.
To save her son from repeating the cycle, Brenda must face the limits of her own clinical armor and find the terrifying courage required to let the structure wobble.
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Unlovable
Coming Fall 2027
When the very story of where you come from is built on sand, how do you find the strength to stand firm in who you are?
In 1960, the tragic San Antonio hotel room overdose of a wealthy colonel's daughter—the high-profile scandal that wrongfully condemns a brilliant young jazz bassist—shatters Eugene and Esther’s lives. As the colonel's personal chauffeur, Eugene witnessed the exchange of the lethal dose. Knowing that a biased system will inevitably make him the perfect scapegoat, Eugene and his wife, Esther, execute a desperate midnight flight to Houston’s Ward with their young daughter, Willow.
But the fortress of silence cannot protect the next generation. Left to navigate a hostile world alone, Willow is branded "damaged goods" when she becomes pregnant at just fourteen years old. Forced into Hope House—a maternity home for unwed mothers—Willow refuses to let the toxic whisper of shame become her permanent identity. Supported by a tight-knit circle of young mothers, she fights to reclaim her authentic self, proving that finding your true "tribe of the heart" is never about fitting into a flawless script, but about the saving grace of finally choosing to be seen.
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"Shame is a liar, Lyndon." "It tells you the poison is in the man." "Guilt just tells you about the act."
Elijah - Anger's Bitch
"Boredom is the rent you pay for sanity." "It’s expensive." "But it’s cheaper than the alternative."
Chisel Face - The Favorite Person
Michael C. Thompson
We are all broken in our own ways, but it is how we are put back together that defines us.
From author and therapist Michael C. Thompson—a native Texan now living and writing in Playa del Carmen, Mexico—comes the Tribes of the Heart Collection, a series of interconnected literary fiction novels marked by profound emotional depth. The collection centers on Black life, resilience, and the delicate architecture of community. Set within an interconnected Texas landscape centered in Houston, each standalone story reveals how one life inevitably ripples into the next.
Visceral, psychologically rich, and unapologetically hopeful, this collection proves that while trauma may be generational, so is healing.
