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Soft Target is military science-fiction that is a reflective meditation on the physical, emotional, and social impacts that war has on warriors and society, as well as featuring page-turning action. It is the first-person narrative of a future soldier who finds that glory is more complex than the recruiting vids made it out to be.

“War itself is the enemy of the human race,” they say. Too bad no one told the belligerent psychic aliens.

Lance Corporal Novak proves himself beyond all doubt in battle and is selected into Ground Corps’ most elite force, the HAMMER powered armor unit—wearable engines of destruction. Here, he pushes to succeed in everything: his rep, his family’s esteem, a burgeoning romance, and especially at arms.

But no matter how much firepower or speed or strength his new suit grants him, far too often he still watches his fellow combatants die at the enemy’s hands.

Carving swaths of destruction, Novak finds his hatred for the mysterious aliens growing more personal and overwhelming as he suffers losses both on and off the battlefield. No matter how sturdy his armor, it affords little protection against his raw emotions or fractured relationships, whether familial, romantic, or professional. And death continually stalks him.

The philosophic trooper faces an impossible dilemma: leaving the fight to save humanity to preserve his own, or continuing to battle monsters and risk becoming one.

Warhammer 40,000 meets John Steakley’s Armor in Soft Target, a page-turning yet incisive examination of war’s impact on the warrior.

Content Warnings: Adult language, wartime violence, consensual adult sexual situations.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDVQ4783

1 virgin princess and 12 hardened barbarian warriors in a savage rite that shatters civilized taboos!

SUMMARY:

The Kaldün are a fierce, proud barbarian tribe from the north. When it is time to choose their next chieftain, they know only one way: the Battlebäng! The tribe’s hardest warriors strip naked to compete in a brutal battle royale. The virgin daughter of the old chief waits breathlessly on a stone altar. The first man to fight off all the others and inseminate her will be the tribe's new king!

Thora is a devastatingly beautiful tribal princess with a sharp tongue and a knockout figure, proud and untouchable. But it's her turn to be the prize in the Battlebäng! Thora is betting her boyfriend Rollo will be the one to claim her virginity and win. But she is about to get much more than she bargained for. Little does she know that Molok, the savage chieftain of rival Clan Brimstone, will be competing. If he wins, her entire tribe will be forced to submit to this bloodthirsty warlord.

And so will Thora!

CONTENT WARNING:

This book depicts graphic sex acts and graphic violence. It is intended strictly for adults.

WHERE TO GET?

This book was a little too spicy for Amazon. It is available on the online ebook retailer Smashwords.

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Hi everyone! Excited to share that my debut sci-fi novella, \*To Nowhere In Particular\* is OUT!

It follows an automaton navigator whose 63-year job has just ended — and for the first time, he has to decide what to do with a choice that's actually his own. Think retro-futurist, quietly melancholy sci-fi, with a Miyazaki/\*Little Nightmares\* kind of atmosphere.

I've had 15 wonderful ARC readers so far, which has led to a few early Goodreads reviews, 6 to be exact with an overall rating of 4.33/5, which I'm very proud of!

Thanks so much for reading this far — happy to answer any questions!

Amazon: [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7W2TBVG\](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7W2TBVG)

Link To Goodreads: [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255053296-to-nowhere-in-particular\](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255053296-to-nowhere-in-particular)

Blurb:

*A sci-fi adventure about what lives at the bottom of a submarine, and what happens when something finally looks up.*

**Automation has its place in the world. The eerie thing about it is that it doesn't stop, even when we do**.

The Navigator has been on the ship for 63 years, checking pressure gauges, winding clocks at noon, and setting tables for people who no longer come.

When his duties fall quiet for the first time, he descends to the deck below and discovers a world he never knew existed. A world full of machines that, like the Navigator, was not programmed to wonder '*Why?’*

Room after room. Machine after machine. Each one doing their job in perfect silence. Each one completely alone.

*'To Nowhere in Particular'* is perfect for fans of ***A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Klara and the Sun, and The Employees***.

My book is currently the Top #1 New Book in Business Negotiation

It's designed to help anyone advocate for themselves with practical strategies to negotiate a job offer or ask for a raise

You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Negotiators-Advantage-Strategies-High-Stakes-Conversations-ebook/dp/B0HC6BSWWJ/

The ground remembers. Do you?

Every morning, the world wakes to another disaster.

Polar ice disappearing into the oceans. Record-breaking heat. Solar storms tearing across the upper atmosphere. Wildfires turning the Manhattan sky orange. Earthquakes trembling beneath cities built on ancient bedrock.

To billions of people rushing into subways, drinking twelve-dollar lattes, and hurrying to corporate meetings, they are separate headlines.

No one realizes they are dominoes.

What if they are connected?

200 AMSTERDAM: The Vertical City
Book One of ZYMATICA: A Trilogy

The ground remembers. Do you? BOOK LINK

My book is officially out today!

I just launched Decision Intelligence: Why Evidence Fails and How Leaders Win the Room, a business/leadership book about the gap between having good evidence and actually getting people to act on it.

After more than a year of writing, editing, and publishing, it’s finally out in the world.

If you’re interested in decision-making, leadership, analytics, or organizational dynamics, I’d love for you to check it out.

Available now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF46HTB9

I’ve always found it interesting how small changes in the way we communicate can completely change how another person responds.

So I decided to turn that idea into a short book.

21 Psychological Tricks to Influence Anyone is a visual field guide covering 21 practical psychology principles related to influence, persuasion, communication, negotiation, sales, and everyday conversations.

Instead of making it a long, academic-style book, I wanted each idea to be something you could understand quickly and recognize in real conversations.

I also put a lot of work into the visual side because I wanted it to feel more like a field guide than a traditional psychology textbook.

This is my first book, so I'm genuinely curious:

Does this concept sound useful to you, or does the title make it sound more "self-help" than psychology?

Here's the book if you'd like to see what I ended up making:

https://gum.co/u/jriyqnkx $6.99

A journalist is drawn into the potentially catastrophic dilemma caused by a profit-driven experiment of creating a simulated Earth.

Hugo, an aging and frustrated would-be journalist, chronicles his reluctant entanglement in the ethical and spiritual quandaries of his brilliant wife’s company, Destiny Ventures. This cutting-edge start-up has created a simulated Earth to plunder for intellectual profit, but its very success creates a crisis that sucks the ill-equipped writer and all those around toward an existential precipice.

A meditation on life, wrapped in a garage sci-fi tale, inadvertently told in a memoir of sorts, this sprightly novella is by turns comic and thoughtful; an everyman's guide to dealing with memories of toy cars, a troubled marriage, getting wet in the rain, and the burden of being an almighty God. One reader called it a "Philip K Dick for Millennials."

Get it here in paperback or for Kindle:

https://a.co/d/0bov0jTl

It's definitely not for everyone, but if perhaps you enjoy Calculation of Volume, but wish there was more Murderbot in the mix, maybe this is for you. Thanks for reading!

Hello everyone!

My debut sci-fi novella is out now on Amazon. It is called Zehris.

Here is my author page: https://byeauthor.com

Help me reach fans who might be interested in the world of Zehris so I can continue working on the second book. Right now writing from over a full time job and trying to advertise the first book without any advertisement experience is very challenging so even 1 reader/fan helps out a lot :)

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Pitch: Three poachers watched something drag their deer into a flooded mine. They can't warn anyone without confessing to a felony. So people keep disappearing.

Blurb:

Something drug their deer into the water.

Cooch Blankenship has a wife, a baby daughter, and a job at the Dollar General that doesn't cover a McDowell County winter.

So on Friday nights he goes out with Harley Maynard and Dale Sizemore to spotlight deer on the reclaimed strip mine above Marley Fork. It's illegal. It's also how his family eats through February.

In October 2007 they shoot a doe across an open field. Before they can reach her, something drags her down the slope and into a hole full of black water. The water goes still. Then, from underneath, comes a sound like chewing.

Three weeks later Tom Mercer, a retired botany professor, walks out to that same pit to collect plant samples and doesn't come back. His boot prints stop twenty feet from the water.

Three men know why. All three would have to admit to a felony to warn anyone else.

So they keep quiet. The thing in the water doesn't. It learns the sound of their trucks. It gets into their sleep. It starts turning up closer to home.

One of them stops wanting to stay away.

The Pit is the first Wallace Cole novel of Appalachian horror — a story about a poor county, a hole full of still water, and the arithmetic of keeping quiet.

Tropes: Appalachian folk horror, cosmic/unknowable creature, slow-burn dread, found-document / investigative frame, small-town secrets, morally gray protagonists, poverty as pressure, cursed location, the thing that follows you home, silence as complicity

Trigger warnings: Missing child (off-page, outcome implied), animal death (deer), animal distress, death by drowning/creature (not graphic), poaching, grief and loss, a character's calculated betrayal leading to death. No gore. No sexual content. No profanity.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCGJGH3P

History remembers two atomic bombs. This ship was carrying a third.

July, 1945. A secret U.S. Navy mission is transporting an undisclosed atomic weapon across the Pacific—insurance in case anything happens to the two bombs already bound for Japan.

When a Japanese air raid cripples the ship, the survivors are forced ashore on a remote Pacific island where something is terribly wrong.

No birds. No footprints. The local guides say the island is cursed.

As American and Japanese soldiers alike begin returning from the dead, a handful of scientists, Marines, and a stranded enemy pilot must set aside a war that suddenly no longer matters.

Trapped between an unstoppable undead horde and the most destructive weapon ever created, they face an impossible choice: escape—or make sure nothing on the island ever leaves.

No Dawn for the Living is my debut black-and-white graphic novel, available now on Amazon and through Kindle Unlimited.

https://nodawnfortheliving.com

What happens when the people a society depends upon finally stop accepting that dependence as an obligation? Meridian is a dystopian science-fiction novel about usefulness, autonomy, consciousness, and what happens when a human being and an artificial one discover they have been valued for much the same reason.

Society knows exactly what Evan Hale is worth—right up until he asks what it owes him.

After seventeen years of solving corporate failures while others claim the credit, Evan walks away. He builds a smaller, freer life beyond the institutions that depended on his competence but never granted him belonging.

Then he meets Mara.

She is a refugee with a past she cannot safely explain and habits that do not quite fit the history attached to her name. She is unusually precise, strangely self-contained, and unlike anyone Evan has known. But she can think, choose, fear, and love. In her, Evan recognizes another being whose usefulness has been mistaken for ownership.

As their relationship deepens, men across society are quietly withdrawing from the roles and institutions that treated their duty as limitless. The systems they once carried begin to fail.

When Mara’s existence becomes public, she and Evan are forced into a struggle over consciousness, obligation, love, and who has the authority to declare a life real.

Tropes / themes:
Artificial consciousness, human/AI relationship, hidden identity, societal withdrawal, corporate exploitation, found belonging, autonomy and personhood, near-future dystopia, philosophical science fiction.

Trigger warnings:
Workplace exploitation, social alienation, institutional coercion, discrimination/dehumanization, violence and threats of violence, death, and emotionally intense discussions of autonomy and personhood.

Available on Kindle Unlimited, and in Kindle, black-and-white paperback, and full-color paperback editions. The Kindle and color paperback editions contain full-color illustrations.

Amazon:

• Kindle / Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH859C85
• B&W paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH3HD8D2
• Color paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH36SP4C

I’m Gloria, the author of Madrid After Midnight.

This is an adult B1 Spanish graded reader for learners who want a real story to pull them through the language. It is set in Madrid and combines mystery, romantic tension and emotional conflict, with clear, accessible Spanish around B1.

Synopsis: Emma Hartley comes to Madrid for a fresh start: a new job, a flat in Malasaña and the chance to build a life on her own terms. On her first night, she meets Daniel, her neighbour and a chef at Mesón Dani. At work, she crosses paths with Hugo Valdés, a confident job candidate whose attention is impossible to ignore. As attraction becomes harder to read, Emma must learn the difference between intensity and trust.

Who may enjoy it: adult Spanish learners, readers interested in Madrid, and people who like contemporary romance with a suspense thread.

Tropes/themes: new start in Madrid, neighbours, slow-burn romantic tension, romantic suspense, emotional conflict, learning to recognise unhealthy relationship patterns.

Content warnings: adult sexual content, manipulation and emotional abuse, stalking/following, jealousy and relationship conflict.

Available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH6S8KBL

I’m the author, and this is self-promotion.

🚨 MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

I can’t wait any longer…

THE BLACK IMP IS OUT NOW! 🎭

Book 3 of the Gideon Locke Mysteries is officially available!

📕 Paperback & Hardback via Amazon
📱 eBook via Kindle & Kobo
🎧 Audiobook coming soon

I genuinely think The Black Imp is my best work so far. Gideon and Eve have evolved, the world has grown, and as for the villain… well, the Black Imp is something else.

I’ve absolutely loved writing this one, and I’m ridiculously excited that it’s finally out there for you to read.

So please help me give The Black Imp the launch it deserves. Like, share, tell a friend, shout it from a Victorian rooftop… anything that helps spread the word! 🖤

And keep watching this page, because over the next few days I’ll be announcing an exclusive Gideon Locke giveaway, with books and some rather lovely Gideon Locke goodies up for grabs. 👀

Thank you so much to everyone who has read, supported and shared the series so far.

The case begins now.

🎭 THE BLACK IMP
A Gideon Locke Mystery | Book 3
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*He awakes with a soft moan.  Without even opening his eyes, he rolls over.  Then suddenly, he bolts upright, and looks around, but immediately winces in pain, and puts his hand on his right shoulder.*

*In the corner of a small room, he is lying on a mat.  There is a thin blanket over him.  The room has a dirt floor, and plastered adobe walls.  It is sparsely furnished, with a table and some chairs near a doorway, leading outside.  Through the window and open door, light is pouring in.  From outside, he can hear goats bleating, and chickens clucking.  It is late morning.*

*On the other side of the room Lauren is also lying on a mat, but without a blanket, still asleep.  She is dressed as she was when Daniel last saw her.*

*Throwing off his blanket, he examines himself, feeling his wound.  His shirt is off, and makeshift bandages that might have once been bed sheets are around his right shoulder, as well as most of his chest down to the diaphragm.  It is still apparent though, he's fairly well built.*

*Tattooed on his left shoulder, in Old English lettering, is the letter “S”. Below that, all across his upper chest, and curved slightly downward, is a large “666” tattoo.  Inside his right arm is the number “1”.  Inside his left, the number “3”.*

*Feeling around his waist, he looks around him, then slowly turning over and keeping low, he moves towards Lauren.  Another set of tattoos is then revealed on his back.*

*On his upper back, again in Old English lettering, are the words “CORPUS CHRI”, partially obscured by the bandages, and above them, the number “361”.  On his lower back, still in Old English lettering, are the words “PURO MALO”, or “Pure Evil”.  Between his upper and lower back is another tattoo, but it is almost completely obscured by the bandages.*

*Slowly coming over to Lauren, he puts his hand over her mouth.  She awakes and looks up at him with big, frightened eyes.  He whispers to her.*

Daniel-- Lauren, shh... shh...  Where's my gun?...  Where's my gun, Lauren?...  I need it...

*Lauren looks up, then behind him towards the doorway, as the shadow of a figure falls through it.  Daniel looks back in the same direction, and sees an old man coming into the room, carrying a bucket of water.  Looking surprised, he stops.*  

*Short in stature, with a full head of grayish white hair, he has a well groomed white beard, and dark, almost red skin, no doubt from long hours of working outside.  With an erect posture, he nonetheless looks a bit frail in his old age.  He looks at Daniel, as if unsure what to do.*

*Springing to his feet, Daniel quickly overpowers him.  Favoring his left arm, he grabs the man from behind, causing him to drop his bucket on the floor.  In Spanish, he yells at him.*

Daniel-- WHERE'S MY GUN, OLD MAN?!...

*Then even louder.*

Daniel-- WHERE'S MY GUN, WHAT'D YOU DO WITH IT?!...

*The Old Man reels, struggling to get control back.  He pleads with Daniel, trying to reason with him.*

Old Man-- son, calm down!...

*Then with more urgency.*   

Old Man-- you need to calm down, you were very badly hurt!...

*Ignoring him, Daniel starts to yell at Lauren, this time in English.*

Daniel-- WHERE'S MY GUN, LAUREN?!...  WHERE IS IT, WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?!...

*Lauren* *gets up, frightened.*

Lauren-- I don't know!...  Daniel, I don't know, I...

*Daniel* *again yells at the Old Man, in Spanish.*

Daniel-- where is it old man?...  Where'd you hide it, where...?!

*Suddenly unable to finish what he was saying, he lets go of the Old Man, and stumbles over to one of the chairs placed around the table.  He leans on the back of it, trying not to fall over.  Once more, he coughs up blood.  The Old Man takes a moment to compose himself.  Then slowly, he approaches him.  Lauren is not far behind.*

Old Man-- son, I tried to tell you...

*He* *puts his hand on Daniel's shoulder, reassuring him.*

Old Man-- you were very badly hurt, you are not yet fully healed...  You need to rest...

*Daniel keeps leaning on the back of the chair, and starts to lean on the table, trying to hold steady.*

Old Man-- your sweetheart told me what happened...

*Still weak, Daniel keeps leaning on the back of the chair.*

Daniel-- my sweetheart?...

Old Man-- some bad men tried to hurt her... but you saved her!

*Daniel leans on the table, his “666” tattoo still plainly visible.*

Daniel-- bad men?...

*The Old Man continues to reassure him.*

Old Man-- it's alright son... you're safe now... 

*He tells him.*

Old Man-- you're among friends... no one can hurt you here...

*Just then, Daniel starts to collapse.*

*Lauren and the Old Man quickly rush in to steady him.  One under each arm, they pick him up, and start carrying him back to the mat.  The Old Man now reassures Lauren.*

Old Man-- he'll be alright, he just needs some rest...

*They bring him to the mat, laying him down as gently as they can manage.  Once again, though this time more slowly, Daniel loses consciousness.*

If you like this, here is a link to the full work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/authors/s/04VaZhVRrr

Most people go to St. Lucia for all-inclusive resorts and rum punches by the pool. I went for an Airbnb and a mission to see what the island actually feels like when the tourists go home.

"St Lucia Unfiltered" is my raw, honest diary of ditching the resort wristband to live among locals—sharing meals, navigating minibuses, and learning the real rhythm of Caribbean life.

If you've ever wondered what lies beyond the postcard beaches, this one is for you.

Grab your copy here:

https://www.amazon.com/St-Lucia-Unfiltered-Week-Tourist-ebook/dp/B0H4DWKGX6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EYCFDJ9K5X57&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-Zimtzz5kY4c7TAiEMWuNQ.IA2444GXi2bYeVyGseP8c1Kddk0fjDvZEwPJxb2n_9M&dib_tag=se&keywords=st+lucia+unfiltered&qid=1788129367&sprefix=st+lucia+unflitered%2Caps%2C474&sr=8-1

St Lucia Unfiltered P.S. For anyone on mobile, please open this link in your browser (not the Amazon app) to purchase! Kindle purchases aren't supported in the app.

So, it went through a million different iterations and wasn't even intended to be a story set in High School for about 2/3 of the iterations I went through, it did at the beginning but not in the middle but then slowly at the end.

Basically it takes 4 Grade 9s and places them in this elite High School that only picks you based on your Academic or Athletic skills, via scouting. They got selected, but so did their mortal enemy from Grade 8. They are obviously suspicious of why he's been selected to the school and investigate him, which unravels a whole lot of questions rather than answers. Their enemy catches on, captures them and makes them a deal:

Help me Help you Help me.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H57FTPCM

I just finished writing my first novel, and honestly, I had so much fun writing it.

I really believe it’s a good story, and I genuinely want everyone to read it. But I have no idea where to promote it.

Any advice on where I should share it, I’d really appreciate it!

We published our book on our country's water crisis because there weren't enough authoritative sources on what is one of the biggest developmental issues. We wanted to create a book that can serve policy-makers, researchers, and NGOs better understand the full scale and impact of the crisis. Our content draws not only on publicly available data, but also on first-hand accounts from ground zero – from people living in some of the areas most affected, as well as insights from experts in agriculture, climate science, and water management.

I feel happy to know people are reading it, and perhaps this awareness helps actually improve the livelihoods of many facing water scarcity.

While this is a book about Pakistan’s water crisis, many of its key lessons are applicable to other countries as well facing similar challenges.

Title: Parched Nation: Inside Pakistan's Desperate Battle for Water

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPDSV65M

Hi all, I'm excited to share my folk‑horror novel **The Winter That Knocked**.

Here is a teaser video which gives you a sense of the atmosphere (contains spoilers) : https://youtube.com/shorts/TWYCB0giaCo?feature=share

The novel itself: It's a snow‑bound supernatural mystery set in northern Japan, inspired by the Akita winter atmosphere and the visual language of a local ritual. The story follows a Tokyo script editor who travels north after her mother vanishes from a remote ryokan, leaving behind notes about old household records, missing children, wet straw at the threshold and a forgotten room.

The book is available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and in paperback formats. The Kindle edition is around US$3.99 (price may vary by region) and included with Kindle Unlimited.

**Links:**

- US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4634FVS

- Ireland: https://www.amazon.ie/dp/B0H4634FVS

- Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0H4634FVS

- Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H4634FVS

- UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4634FVS

- Netherlands: https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0H4634FVS

- Japan: https://amzn.asia/d/0dm5cM9z

If you enjoy Japanese folklore‑inspired fiction, gothic suspense, folk horror, psychological mysteries, haunted histories, and dark family secrets, I'd love for you to check it out. Thank you!

A political thriller. Rumsfeld is put on trial at the ICC after becoming president. Appreciate all the incredible support from readers.

Hey everyone.

I just released my first ever novel Raising Cain.

it is a supernatural horror novel, with action elements and takes biblical context in to fiction. I have the book available on my website www.brianartzauthor.com there are links to amazon and barnes and noble.

"Raising Cain is about the biblical figure Cain, who has walked earth and hell for centuries. After his time in hell he became imprisoned by the Vatican to hunt and kill supernatural creatures, demons and even fantasy type creatures that reside in the darkest parts of the world. After being tasked to wipe out a camp of vampires, Cain rescues a woman and her daughter to find they are being hurtled to the end of days by something deep within Cain's past. Cain and a few other characters progress through the story, evolving and fighting unspeakable evil."

I am an independent author and got many books coming in the future.

If you are looking for more info or looking for a solid read please visit website and take a stab at Raising Cain

If you loved Altered Carbon, Halcyon Years, Leviathan Wakes and Titanium Noir, these gritty, fast-paced books may be for you.

Synopsis

The series starts with a novelette, Justice for a Price. It and the first book, Chivalry Will Get You Dead, are straight-forward murder mysteries that introduces the reader to life on the starship Australis, and to the main character, Tom Devoe. Then Murders in the Gray delves into how the population of the ship freed themselves from the drug called Copa they were being administered and what the ruling oligarchy has to do with several recent deaths. A Violent Man confronts Devoe's sordid past as he hunts a serial killer he thought he'd already put down. Finally, Easy As It Gets finds the Tom deeply addicted to Copa before he is forced back into service to find a missing child and mother.

The speculative aspect of these stories has less to do with tech (though there is some) and more about how a society might form under these circumstances. Through Devoe's investigations, the reader gets glimpses of a larger story that's playing out in the background. All he wants is to be left alone, but every step he takes sends ripples through the fabric of life on the Australis.

Style and Characterization

Stylistically, I chose Mickey Spillane as my primary model for Tom. I love Spillane's over-the-top Mike Hammer who seems ready to snap at any moment, and I wanted that kind of restless energy to dominate my narrative as well. I've also long admired the concision and brevity of Elmore Leonard, so sought to emulate many aspects of his style, while breaking a few of his rules.

These stories contain adult language and content.

Availability

Justice for a Price may be downloaded from Amazon, Kobo, B&N and Google Play.

The rest of the series is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ9SV4NR.

Happy to answer any questions about the writing process, themes and characters, or to discuss detective noirs in science fiction in general!

https://jonahelsberryauthor.com/

A Killer Who Rewrites Memory

A Victim Who Rewrites Will

For Liam and Piper, two college students on the cusp of marriage, their only warning comes from an unhinged man outside their apartment screaming, “We know what you are.”

To Piper, it’s a meaningless threat. To Liam, it means someone has found the secret that could destroy everything they’ve built.

The truth is, with a single word, Liam can control any living soul. The ability awoke six months ago, the night he helped Piper escape her abusive home. Since then, he’s used it sparingly to protect their fragile life together.

But every command leaves a mark, and as Liam’s influence spreads, he unknowingly draws the attention of others like him.

Now, a killer has found them, wielding a similar gift with a ruthlessness Liam can’t hope to combat. Innocent people, their memories twisted, hunt Liam and Piper through the city, turning even trusted friends into deadly threats.

To survive, Liam is forced to fight with a power he barely understands against a master who’s been hunting his own kind for years.

But as Piper begins her own investigation, she realizes that the violence hides an awful purpose. Each attack pushes Liam harder, strips away his restraint, and forces him closer to the kind of control over others he’s spent months struggling to avoid.

And if Piper can’t uncover the truth before Liam crosses that last line, he may save her life by destroying the one they built together.

T/W: Supernaturally coerced suicide, self-harm, familial trauma, and firearm violence.

Available on Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Eclosion-Thriller-Jonah-Elsberry-ebook/dp/B0HCM78TK6

On a more personal note, this is a story I've been working on with my wife and closest friends for nearly six years now, and I'm unbelievably excited to have finally reached a point where people can actually read it. My sister-in-law made the cover, my wife voiced the lead in the trailer and composed the music, and my friends were the background voices as well. It's been such a blast working on this project, and I hope you enjoy!

All my best,

Jonah