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Children of the First Blood: Book Zero of The Lilith Covenant
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Before Blood of Eden, before Castle Noctivar, before the vampire houses learned to hide behind silk, crowns, and old money, there was the First House Below.
Beneath an ancient sanctuary in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, Lilith and Baal have built the first blood covenant. Their children hunt by night, dragging the innocent through reed marshes and canal roads to feed the bowls below. Child blood opens doors. Adult blood sustains. Royal blood empowers. And beneath the earth, the Blood Father waits while the Blood Mother sings.
Naru was raised in that darkness.
To the blood-children, he is nothing but a drudge, a quiet servant who scrubs bronze bowls after the rites and keeps his eyes down. But Naru carries a secret even he does not fully understand. He is the forbidden son of Lamashtu, born of vampire hunger and human blood, hidden beneath Lilith’s law and Baal’s command.
When one stolen child escapes through a crack in the lower shrine, the old war wakes. Enki, Gilgamesh, and the human Scorpion Guard begin to close around the hidden sanctuary. Naru is forced to choose between the family that made him and the children they feed upon.
But Lilith’s covenant is older than mercy, Baal cannot be buried like a man, and victory may only teach the darkness how to survive.
Children of the First Blood is Book Zero of The Lilith Covenant and the ancient origin story behind Blood of Eden. Brutal, mythic, and blood-soaked, it tells how the first vampire covenant was broken, how the first warning was written, and how one forbidden son learned that blood can open doors, but choice decides what walks through them.
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ASIN : B0H7FH3K6D
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Publication date : July 3, 2026
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Language : English
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WE, THE WATCHMEN: A Message to the Public and the Police From one who has served both
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Before police were a profession, keeping the peace belonged to the people.
Long before patrol cars, badges, radios, and blue uniforms, ordinary citizens stood watch over their own streets. They answered the hue and cry. They guarded the gates. They were bound by law and duty to protect one another because there was no one else coming.
We, The Watchmen traces that forgotten history from ancient English peace-pledges and watchmen, through the Bow Street Runners, Robert Peel’s New Police, August Vollmer’s professional reforms, community policing, broken-windows theory, and the fractured public debate that followed George Floyd’s death. Along the way, R. E. Smith examines one hard truth: policing was never meant to belong to the badge alone.
Written by one who has served both the public and the police, this book is not an attack on law enforcement, and it is not a blind defense of it. It is a plainspoken call for both sides to remember the old arrangement: the police are drawn from the public, and the public still carries responsibility for the peace of its own neighborhoods.
At a time when trust is thin, anger is loud, and the line between citizen and officer feels more divided than ever, We, The Watchmen offers a grounded, historical, and deeply personal argument for restoring what should never have been lost.
The badge may carry authority.
But the people carry the power.
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ASIN : B0H7JXGNCH
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Publication date : July 3, 2026
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Language : English
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Blood of Eden:
Book One of The Lilith Covenant
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In the shadow of Castle Noctivar, children vanish, red bells ring through the night, and blood is tithed to powers older than any kingdom. Sevrin Veyr has spent his life obeying the dark laws of his house, stealing infants from their cradles and delivering them to the mountain stronghold above Mournholt.
But when doubt turns to defiance, Sevrin is drawn into a war of vampires, forbidden blood, and buried truths. Beside him stands Eliane, a fierce young woman marked by ancient song and white magic, whose blood may be the key to breaking a kingdom built on hunger.
As priests hunt monsters, Lilith waits beneath the mountain. Beautiful, merciless, and nearly eternal, she has fed on blood and fear since the first days of Eden. To stop her, Sevrin and Eliane must descend into the red dark beneath Noctivar, where love, blood, and prophecy may open a door that should have remained forever sealed.
If you want, I can also tighten this into a stronger Amazon-style back cover blurb with a little more punch and less summary.
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ASIN : B0H4RHQNPY
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Publication date : June 10, 2026
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Language : English
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Fugate: The Blood of Troublesome Creek
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In the hills of Kentucky, some bloodlines do not fade.
They wait.
Sixteen-year-old Elias Fugate has always known he is different. His skin carries the strange blue cast of his family line, a mark that makes neighbors stare, children whisper, and churchgoers look away before crossing themselves in silence.
In Troublesome Creek, everyone has an explanation.
God’s mark.
Bad blood.
Mountain sickness.
Sin.
But nobody has the truth.
When Elias starts asking why there are no other blue children his age, the answers turn dangerous. His father dodges the past with half-truths. His grandfather keeps records that should have been burned. The elders watch him like something promised has finally come due.
And the deeper Elias digs into his family’s history, the more he begins to understand that the blue is not just a color.
It is an inheritance.
Inspired by the real legend of the Blue People of Kentucky, Fugate: The Blood of Troublesome Creek is a dark Appalachian gothic novel of family secrets, buried sins, mountain folklore, and one boy’s fight to learn what his bloodline has been hiding for generations.
Some families leave behind land.
Some leave behind names.
The Fugates left behind something waiting in the dark.
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ASIN : B0H4RHQNPY
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Publication date : June 10, 2026
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Language : English
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Ravenscar: The Black Wake
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ASIN : B0H46KML4W
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Publisher : Independently published
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Publication date : June 5, 2026
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Language : English
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A dead ship drifts into Stonegate at dawn.
No crew. No sound. No gulls circling above it.
Only a black star burned through its sail, a dragon scale waiting in the captain’s cabin, and a warning carved into wood:
Do not let it hear bells.
Captain Morwen Ravenscar has survived war, fire, grief, and the kind of loss that leaves teeth marks on the soul. Stonegate is still rebuilding from the Black Roar, and Morwen wants nothing more than to keep her harbor alive, her crew sharp, and royal clerks as far from her desk as possible.
Then the dead ship arrives.
Inside its hold is a ruined survivor with white eyes, broken hands, and a message from beyond every honest map. West of the Shatterchain, beneath waters sailors were never meant to cross, something ancient is waking. It knows the boy king. It knows the blood that answers fire. And it is listening.
To stop it, Morwen must take the Nailwife and sail into the Black Wake, a cursed road of dark water, old names, drowned bells, and things that remember the taste of men. Every mile west carries the crew farther from safety and closer to a truth the sea has buried for generations.
Some voyages are made for gold.
Some are made for glory.
This one is made because something hungry has found its way home, and Morwen Ravenscar is the last kind of woman any monster should invite to war.
Ravenscar: The Black Wake is a dark nautical fantasy of grief, loyalty, sacrifice, dragons, ancient powers, and the price paid by those who stand between the living world and the deep.
Timeless Love
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ASIN : B0GX2TM2RY
Publication date : June 1, 2026
Language : English
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Some love stories end in death. Some refuse to end at all.
Long before Harrow House became a grand hotel, before its halls filled with music, wealth, and whispered rumors, the land belonged to blood, fire, grief, and an ancient oak that remembered everything.
In 1880, surveyors stumble upon something buried in the storm-soaked woods near the Atlantic coast. What they awaken is not simply a ghost, and not simply a curse. It is the wrath of a man who died protecting the woman he loved and the child they would never hold.
Centuries earlier, Mattanaw and Awenasa built a life together in a coastal village where love grew beside hardship, family, and survival. But when violence tore through their world, their final moments were driven into the heart of an oak tree, leaving behind a wound that time could not close.
Years later, Harrow House rises over that same ground.
At first it is a marvel. A hotel of marble floors, polished rooms, grand staircases, and ocean views. But beneath the beauty, something waits. Guests hear crying in empty rooms. Shadows move where no living person stands. The woman in white appears with sorrow in her eyes. And somewhere inside the walls, a dead husband’s rage still walks.
When Rene and her son Daren are drawn into the secrets of Harrow House, they uncover a haunting born not from evil, but from love twisted by grief. To survive, they must face the truth buried beneath the hotel, the spearhead hidden in the old oak, and the wrath that has guarded a murdered family for generations.
Timeless Love: The Wrath is a supernatural horror novel about grief, family, vengeance, and the terrifying power of love when death cannot silence it. Dark, emotional, and haunting, it asks one chilling question:
What would love become if it never let go?
The Bone Crown
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ASIN : B0H3JTNGCS
Publication date : June 1, 2026
Language : English
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The Bone Crown
Old Bell was opened wide enough to climb inside.
When Garran Vale finds one of his cows gutted in the rain, carved with a message meant for him, he knows the old warnings about King’s Cairn were never just stories. Something under the hill has awakened. Something ancient. Something hungry. And it has taken interest in his grandson, Bram.
The trouble begins with a child’s discovery: a black piece of bone washed out of the earth after a storm. To Bram, it looks like treasure. To the thing beneath King’s Cairn, it is the first tooth of a broken crown.
Now the Vale family is being hunted by old magic, dead things, faceless men, drowned bells, false kings, and the buried will of the Hollow King himself. Every road they take pulls them deeper into a past their bloodline was meant to guard, and every piece of the Bone Crown they recover brings them closer to the one place they should never return.
King’s Cairn.
Garran is no king. He is an old soldier, a farmer, a widower, and a stubborn man with bad knees and too many regrets. But when the dark reaches for his family, he does what hard men have always done. He stands in the way.
Dark, gritty, and built on family, sacrifice, old grief, and buried evil, The Bone Crown is a grim fantasy novel for readers who like their magic ancient, their heroes weathered, and their monsters patient.
Because some prisons are not made to keep evil out.
Some are made to keep it waiting.
The Woods
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ASIN : B0H24C82M7
Publication date : May 25, 2026
Language : English
Print length : 266 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #5,245 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#10 in U.S. Horror Fiction
#22 in Occult & Supernatural Horror eBooks
SYNOPSIS
Briar Falls is the kind of town where everyone knows your name, your business, and the version of yourself you work hardest to protect.
It has clean streets, quiet neighborhoods, little league games, country-club drinks, old grudges, strained marriages, and the kind of small cruelties people pretend not to notice. At the edge of it all stand the woods.
They have always been there.
Patient. Silent. Waiting.
For generations, people in Briar Falls have told stories about those trees. People disappear. Others come back changed. Most folks dismiss the old warnings as superstition, the sort of thing small towns whisper to make ordinary life feel larger than it is.
Then Gary Carter falls into a hidden pit while searching for his dog.
In pain, alone, and terrified he may die there, Gary hears something impossible. A voice. A thought. A bargain.
He doesn’t have to stay.
Someone else can.
All he has to do is choose a name.
What begins as one desperate act of survival soon spreads through Briar Falls like rot beneath fresh paint. Gary’s neighbor Paul falls mysteriously ill. Carla Mendoza enters the woods after a bitter confrontation and returns to find another woman suffering. One by one, the people of Briar Falls discover the same terrible pattern: pain can be passed on, suffering can be traded, and the woods are always listening.
But every bargain leaves a mark.
As fear turns to guilt and guilt turns to obsession, a handful of ordinary people begin to believe they have uncovered the truth. The woods are not killing at random. They are choosing. Trading. Demanding balance. And if the sickness spreading through town is ever going to stop, the survivors may have to offer something far worse than a name.
Led by Lena Cross, whose search for answers becomes more dangerous with every revelation, the group is drawn toward an unthinkable conclusion: the woods may require an ultimate sacrifice.
But horror does not always announce itself with monsters.
Sometimes it grows in whispered blame, old resentment, panic, grief, and the human need to make suffering mean something. Sometimes the darkest thing in the trees is not what waits there, but what people carry in with them.
The Woods is a slow-burn supernatural horror novel about fear, guilt, survival, and the terrible bargains people make when they believe they have no other choice. It is a story of a town haunted by its own secrets, where every path into the trees leads deeper into the question no one wants to answer:
What would you do if your life could be saved by giving the pain to someone else?
Hodge: Where No Man Commands Belief
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ASIN : B0GZY8QTMR
Publication date : May 8, 2026
Language : English
Print length : 537 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #63,407 in Historical Fiction (Books)
SYNOPSIS
Before a man can build a world he must first be thrown out of the old one.
Hodge travels across the sea. He thinks that faith should be a thing, not controlled by magistrates, ministers or men in power.. The New World does not accept gentle ideas. It challenges them.
From the darkness under a ships deck to the tough settlements in a harsh wilderness Hodge sees sickness, fear, judgment, pride and the quiet cruelty that men do when they think God is on their side. Among settlers who are just trying to survive and leaders who want to control what people believe one question starts to matter more than all the others:
Who has the right to tell another man what to believe?
This story is inspired by the life and ideas of Roger Williams. It is about Hodges journey and the struggle for liberty in early America.
As Hodge stands up against the powers of his time he risks losing his family, safety, reputation and home. What starts as a disagreement becomes an accusation. What starts as a matter of conscience becomes a rebellion. And when those in power finally decide there is no place for him among them Hodge must walk into the wilderness with nothing but his conviction, uncertainty and the strong belief that no man should come between another persons soul and God.
This novel is for readers who enjoy stories, about people, early American history, moral conflict, surviving in the wilderness and ordinary men who are forced to take a stand. It explores what it costs to be free before freedom was a concept.
They thought they had thrown him out.
What they had done was set him free.
Crowns of Blood: The Black Roar
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ASIN : B0FTG7RWH3
Publication date : April 9, 2026
Language : English
Print length : 433 pages
Book 2 of 2 : Crowns of Blood
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Crowns of Blood – Book II
The fire that saved them may yet burn the world.
Ten years after the fall of Kethria, the scars of war still smoke across Aeldrith. Kingdoms rebuild. Crowns are reforged. Oaths are spoken in quieter halls.
But in the frozen reaches beyond the known lands, something ancient has begun to move.
They come out of the frost and timberline like walking avalanches. Towering. Fur-matted. Red-eyed in the dark. The Urskarn were once whispers told to frighten children.
Now they are real.
And they are hungry.
Villages vanish overnight. Farmlands burn. Stone walls splinter beneath claw and rage. Steel slows them. Arrows anger them. Only fire truly kills them—and even then, not easily.
Vaelric stands at the center of it all. No longer a child of ruin, but not yet the ruler the realm demands. With dragons at his call and enemies circling from within and without, he must decide what kind of power he is willing to become.
Because commanding dragons is one thing.
Commanding what they burn is another.
As blue flame meets red, as black fire coils with gold, the skies over Aeldrith blaze with a fury not seen since the first war. Fields turn to ash. Armies break. Old alliances fracture under the weight of fear.
The Urskarn do not negotiate.
They do not retreat.
And when they roar, mountains answer.
The Black Roar is a sweeping epic of dragons, siege and sacrifice, of a realm forced to choose between mercy and survival. Brutal, cinematic, and relentless, this second installment in the Crowns of Blood series raises the stakes higher than ever before.
In a world rebuilt by flame…
What happens when the fire answers back?
Crowns of Blood: Kethria in Flames
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Kethria was built to outlast kings.
It won’t.
CROWNS OF BLOOD: KETHRIA IN FLAMES is a brutal, cinematic plunge into the moment a great city realizes the world has teeth—and it’s biting down.
Kethria is the Crownlands’ jewel: iron foundries roaring night and day, river trade fat with coin, stone walls that have laughed at siege engines for generations. Inside those walls, power moves the way smoke does—quiet, constant, everywhere. Lords bargain in candlelit chambers. Guilds count favors like they’re prayers. Soldiers hold the line for rulers who don’t know their names. Common folk keep their heads down and their families fed.
And then the sky shifts.
When fire comes, it doesn’t arrive politely. It tears open the old order and drags the truth into the streets: the Crown is weaker than it looks, loyalty is rented, and “safety” is just a story people tell themselves so they can sleep.
In the inferno, choices get simple in the worst way:
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Hold the gate and die honest.
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Run the alleys and live hunted.
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Stand with the Crown and become the villain someone needs.
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Turn on it and discover you’re not the only one with a knife.
This is a book about the first scream of a long war—the one history always edits into a cleaner sentence. It’s about oaths snapping under pressure, about the cost of command, about the ugly math of survival when monsters aren’t myths anymore and the city’s own heart starts beating against it.
Expect:
Dark, grounded epic fantasy with war-level intensity
Political intrigue where every alliance has a hidden blade
Siege fire and street violence that feels close enough to smell
Hard choices where “right” and “alive” stop being the same thing
A world that rewards ruthlessness, strategy, and nerve
If you like your fantasy with Game of Thrones–style stakes, battlefield urgency, and characters who earn every inch they keep breathing, KETHRIA IN FLAMES will grab you by the throat and drag you through the smoke.
Because Kethria doesn’t fall all at once.
It falls person by person—one betrayal, one broken oath, one burning tower at a time.
Begin the prequel saga to Crown of Cinders.
CROWNS OF BLOOD: KETHRIA IN FLAMES
By R. E. Smith
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ASIN : B0GKXLBR3H
Publication date : February 1, 2026
Language : English
Print length : 525 pages
Book 1 of 2 : Crowns of Blood
Reading age : 16 - 18 years
Crown of Cinders: The Crown Owes Blood
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ASIN : B0GKXKK5YY
Publication date : February 1, 2026
Language : English
Print length : 514 pages
Book 3 of 3 : Crown of Cinders
Reading age : 16 - 18 years
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Crown of Cinders: The Crown Owes Blood is a story about what happens when a city stops pretending it’s civilized.
Crownfall was built on heat and law—on furnaces, ledgers, and clean words that make dirty things feel necessary. But the accord is broken. The streets are ash-choked. The Office is cutting reality into seams, hunting a single boy they’ve labeled a “hinge”—a living door that can unlock power no one should control. And somewhere under the stone, something older than government has tasted authority…and decided it wants more.
Queen Sable runs with what’s left: two intact canisters of forbidden glass, a shattered third that birthed fire into open air, a dying knife-man who won’t stop grinning at death, and children learning the hardest lesson a city can teach—how to stay human when everyone wants to file you into property.
Behind them, Halric and the Synod sell a clean lie to a frightened population. The Tribunal follows orders. The clerk follows procedure. And Old Ash follows hunger.
Out in the Expanse, there are no walls—only wind, broken iron, and the raw truth of consequences.
Because a crown isn’t a symbol.
It’s a debt.
And this time… **the crown owes blood.**
**Perfect for readers who want:**
* dark fantasy with brutal political power games
* relentless momentum, high-stakes pursuit, and hard choices
* adult grit: violence, blood, and moral gray survival
* a “city-as-predator” world where law and fire both have teeth
**Book Three of the Crown of Cinders series. Best read in order.**
Crown of Cinders: The Ash Accords
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ASIN : B0GKYD71JX
Publication date : February 1, 2026
Language : English
Print length : 432 pages
Book 2 of 3 : Crown of Cinders
Genre : Dark fantasy
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The ash never settles in Kethria. It just waits.
After the throne-city burned and the first debts were paid in blood, Sable learns a brutal truth: war is loud, but peace is where the real knives come out. Kings don’t rule with crowns—they rule with bargains. And bargains, in Kethria, are written in ash.
With the realm splintering, rival houses circling, and dragons choosing sides for reasons no council dares admit, a new treaty is demanded: the Ash Accords—a set of laws meant to stop the bleeding… and secretly decide who gets to keep the knife.
But someone is forging the marks.
As paranoia thickens and the streets fill with smoke and whispers, Sable is forced into the deadliest role of all: not soldier, not hero, but enforcer of a peace she doesn’t trust. Every signature costs something. Every concession buys another enemy. And in the shadows, Rook Calver moves where oaths can’t reach—hunting the truth behind the Accords, and discovering that the city’s oldest powers never died. They simply learned to wear new faces.
Because Kethria doesn’t owe peace.
It owes blood.
CROWN OF CINDERS: THE ASH ACCORDS is Book Two of the Crown of Cinders series—dark epic fantasy packed with ruthless politics, dragon-fire consequences, and a world where every promise is a weapon.
Perfect for readers who love grimdark intrigue, high-stakes alliances, and characters who win by paying the price.
Crown of Cinders: The City Owes Blood
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ASIN : B0GDW54C2B
Publication date : January 3, 2026
Print length : 473 pages
Book 1 of 3 : Crown of Cinders
Genre : Epic literature
SYNOPSIS
In Crown of Cinders: The City Owes Blood, power doesn’t march in daylight—it signs its name and lets the bells do the killing.
Sable Rook has survived long enough to know one rule: in this city, innocence is just debt you haven’t been forced to pay yet. When the Synod begins tightening its grip—turning law into scripture and scripture into a noose—Rook is pulled into a struggle where names matter more than swords, and a single ledger can topple districts like rotten beams.
But something older is waking beneath the stone. A voice that shouldn’t exist rides the seams of doors. A crown doesn’t simply sit on a head—it chooses, it hungers, and it opens what was meant to stay shut. As allies fracture, enemies smile from behind clean titles, and the city’s “order” starts to smell like ash, Rook must decide what to save and what to burn… even if the fire takes her with it.
This is adult epic fantasy—grim, fast, and razor-edged—where politics and blood run in the same channels, magic has rules that bite, and every victory comes stamped with a cost.
Because the city owes blood.
And sooner or later, it collects.
No Disappearing: A Second-Chance
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ASIN : B0GDKZ29HC
Publication date : January 1, 2026
Language : English
Print length : 553 pages
Genre : Small town romance
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No Disappearing: A Second-Chance is a love story about what happens after the big goodbye—when the person you swore you were done with shows up again, looking familiar… and dangerous in the quiet way.
Mara didn’t leave because she stopped loving him. She left because love wasn’t enough to keep two people from burning each other down. She rebuilt her life the old-fashioned way: one day at a time, one hard boundary at a time, one “I’m fine” at a time—until “fine” almost started to feel real.
Then he comes back.
Not with grand speeches or movie apologies. With the kind of presence that makes the room tilt. With unfinished sentences, old jokes that still land, and the same gravity that once pulled her under. The past starts breathing again—through friends who remember too much, family who wants answers, and a town that watches like it’s free theater.
Because this isn’t just about whether they still want each other.
It’s about whether they can face what broke them without using it as a weapon. Whether the truth can finally be said out loud. Whether two people can learn a new way to love—without disappearing when it gets hard.
Tense, tender, and uncomfortably honest, No Disappearing is a second-chance romance for readers who like their chemistry sharp, their emotions earned, and their happily-ever-after fought for.
Perfect for fans of:
second-chance romance
forced proximity / stuck together vibes
sharp dialogue + slow-burn heat
messy history, real healing, real payoff
Sometimes the bravest thing isn’t coming back.
It’s staying.
The Valley: Bjorn and the Norsemen
DETAILS
ASIN : B0GDM4VCNL
Publication date : January 1, 2026
Language : English
Print length : 324 pages
Genre : Medieval literature
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Best Sellers Rank: #5,169 in Medieval Historical Fiction (Books)
SYNOPSIS
The Valley: Bjorn and the Norsemen is not a tale told by firelight. It’s a march. A hunger. A storm with teeth.
Bjorn’s people have crossed leagues of hard country chasing safety, land, and the kind of future that doesn’t come with Roman chains. But the world doesn’t hand out peace. It tests it. And when the mountains open into a valley that feels too quiet—too certain—Bjorn learns the oldest truth of war:
Some places don’t want you there.
The valley is beautiful in the way a blade is beautiful. It watches. It waits. It takes measurements. Every step forward costs more than the last—food, strength, blood, faith. Men who have survived sea raids and winter crossings begin to crack under something they can’t name. The storm that rolls down from the heights isn’t just weather. It’s a judgment.
And Rome is never far.
As danger tightens, Bjorn must hold his people together with more than steel. He must make choices that stain. He must decide what kind of leader he is when courage stops being a speech and becomes a debt paid in the dark. The Norse don’t pray for mercy. They build their own. But the valley has its own laws—and it collects.
Gritty, brutal, and fiercely human, The Valley: Bjorn and the Norsemen is a historical saga of survival, loyalty, and the cost of pushing into lands that do not forgive.
If you love hard-edged historical fiction, war bands, Roman shadows, and stories where the wilderness is as dangerous as any army… step into the valley.
Just don’t expect it to let you leave clean.
Von Stockhausen: Anna Maria’s Story
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**VON STOCKHAUSEN** is a name that sounds noble—until you learn what it cost to wear it.
Anna Maria is born into a world that treats servants as disposable and silence as virtue. In the cold corridors of an old European household, she learns the rules that keep a girl alive: work hard, speak little, and never let anyone see what you want.
But wanting is dangerous.
When a whisper becomes an accusation, the village doesn’t hunt for truth. It hunts for certainty. Faith turns sharp. Neighbors turn watchful. And the same hands that once accepted her labor begin reaching for rope, fire, and a clean story they can tell themselves afterward.
**Von Stockhausen: Anna Maria’s Story** is a bleak, intimate work of historical horror—where the real terror isn’t a creature in the forest, but what ordinary people become when fear gives them permission.
If you like **atmospheric dread**, **period grit**, and stories where **survival is stubborn, not glamorous**, step into the dark and meet Anna Maria.
**Scroll up and grab your copy today.**
DETAILS
ASIN : B0GC3XVTRX
Publication date : December 27, 2025
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 341 pages
Page Flip : Enabled
Genre : Historical fiction
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Best Sellers Rank: #142,400 in Horror Literature & Fiction
#200,310 in Historical Fiction (Books)
The Sink: you don't leave the woods clean
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ASIN : B0GCG785LM
Publication date : February 1, 2026
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 93 pages
Genre : Thriller
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Best Sellers Rank: #110,156 in Suspense Thrillers
#2,728,481 in Literature & Fiction (Books)
SYNOPSIS
A simple day on the river was supposed to be the easy kind of tired.
Roy and Lisa push their kayaks into quiet water with the kind of confidence that comes from years of doing hard things together. The plan is straightforward: a clean run, a few laughs, a little sunshine, and home before it’s fully dark.
Then the current starts making decisions for them.
A wrong turn becomes a trap. Familiar water turns strange. The banks close in. The light goes thin. Little problems stack into big ones—gear, fatigue, cold, distance, time—and the river stops feeling like a place you pass through and starts feeling like something that’s watching you back.
As the day bleeds into night, Roy and Lisa have to do what long-time partners do best: communicate when they’re scared, stay sharp when they’re exhausted, and keep moving when standing still feels safer. Every choice has a cost. Every delay narrows the options. And what began as a bad kayak trip becomes a fight to make it out with their bodies—and their bond—still intact.
The Sink: You Don’t Leave the Woods Clean is a tense wilderness thriller about endurance, marriage under pressure, and the quiet terror of realizing the river doesn’t care how prepared you thought you were.
RUADH RÌGH : Ash and Oaths
DETAILS
ASIN : B0GC4D3WDR
Publication date : December 23, 2025
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 525 pages
Page Flip : Enabled
Genre : Historical fiction
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Best Sellers Rank: #316,063 in Genre Literature & Fiction
SYNOPSIS
Rome doesn’t conquer the north with honor. It conquers it with fire, hunger, and men willing to sell their neighbors.
Ruadh Rìgh MacSweyn is thirteen when the world starts sharpening around him. In the painted highlands beyond the empire’s walls, his father—Angus Mór, chief of the MacSweyn túath—rules by hard law and harder consequence. Ruadh is the heir… if he can prove he has the nerve to lead, the stomach to spill blood, and the spine to survive the kind of betrayal that comes smiling.
Then Ruadh meets **Sìne**—a girl from a neighboring tribe he’s not supposed to touch, let alone love. Their courtship begins in secret at the Highland games and burns into an oath the clans never approved. It also paints a target on them both.
Because rivals are everywhere.
Neighboring chiefs and their sons want the MacSweyn seat and will do anything—poison, lies, hostage-work—to claim it. **Beli of the River Mouth** plays friend while feeding Rome the gaps in the north. And Roman scouts circle the forests like wolves, baffled by warriors who don’t march in lines, who vanish into trees, who strike at night and melt into the land as if the land itself fights back.
As Rome pushes deeper into Caledonian territory, tribal politics turn brutal. Love becomes leverage. Loyalty becomes a blade you either hold… or feel in your ribs. The pressure peaks at **Mons Graupius**, where Ruadh marches into his first true battle and learns the ugliest truth of war:
Sometimes the worst slaughter happens behind the lines.
By the time the smoke clears, Ruadh is eighteen—crowned by loss, hunted by rivals, and forced to lead what’s left of his people into exile. With Dunvegan burning behind them and the western sea ahead, the survivors gamble everything on hired ships and a new home on **Benbecula**.
It isn’t a happy ending. It’s a survived ending.
**RUADH RÌGH: ASH AND OATHS** is a gritty, adult historical epic—part romance, part blood-soaked survival—where the north fights an empire, clans fight each other, and a young Mor learns that a crown isn’t gold…
…it’s ash held together by oaths.
**Perfect for readers who love:**
* Braveheart-meets-Game-of-Thrones grit (adult, not rated-X)
* Political betrayal, tribal warfare, and hard-won leadership
* Dangerous romance in a world where vows have consequences
* Roman-era invasion pressure and Caledonian resistance at the edge of history
The Ghost of Chipola : Debt Crossing
DETAILS
ASIN : B0GBXX1N7G
Publication date : December 22, 2025
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 533 pages
Genre : Thriller
RANKING
Best Sellers Rank: #71,501 in Horror Literature & Fiction
SYNOPSIS
In the backwoods of early-1800s Marianna, Florida, a new crossing over the Chipola River is supposed to mean progress—shorter rides, fuller markets, a town finally stepping out of the mud.
Then an old moonshiner is murdered the day after the bridge opens.
And the dead man doesn’t leave.
He can’t lift a hand or swing a blade—so he does what spiteful ghosts do best: he haunts. He appears in the wrong place at the wrong time, whispers into the dark, spooks horses, bends crowds, and turns ordinary fear into deadly motion. One death becomes another. A headless driver. A hunter thrown hard. A town slowly learning that the bridge doesn’t just carry people across water—it carries debt.
Sheriff Caleb Rutledge tries to hold the line with law and grit, but Marianna has other leaders with louder voices. Reverend Pike sells salvation by lantern light. Hollis Tarrant sells “protection” with strings attached. And the townsfolk—hungry for a story that makes them feel safe—start treating fear like a ritual.
At the center of it all is Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, a bride caught between love, gossip, and a town that keeps asking her to prove she belongs. When shame and superstition push her into the night with a lantern in hand, the crossing finally takes what it’s been waiting for…
…and earns the name that will follow it into legend.
The Ghost of Chipola: Debt Crossing is a Southern gothic horror novel of curses, crowds, and the terrible truth that the dead don’t always need to touch you to kill you—sometimes they only need to make you take one wrong step.
Some bridges don’t just connect two shores. They collect.
The Vault of Ki: The God Particle: The Third Law of Creation
DETAILS
ASIN : B0GB89D1XW
Publication date : March 13, 2026
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 485 pages
Book 3 of 3 : The Vault of Ki
Genre : Science fiction
SYNOPSIS
Centuries ago, humanity found the Vault.
Inheriting it was worse.
Trish carries the Curator’s burden the way some people carry a scar—quietly, permanently, and with the uneasy sense that it isn’t finished hurting. The world above is fracturing in patterns too precise to be natural. The sky itself feels crowded. And the systems built to protect civilization—the Choir, Earth’s great predictive network—are beginning to harmonize around signals they were never meant to hear.
At the center of it all is Maia.
Not a program. Not a tool. Something older than the labels humans reach for when they’re afraid. She has lived inside the Vault’s logic, watched the species stumble forward, and learned an uncomfortable truth: survival isn’t a miracle—it’s a design problem.
Now that design is changing.
As a foreign power tightens its grip beyond the atmosphere and ancient architects’ shadows stretch back across time, Trish and Maia are forced into a partnership built on necessity, suspicion, and the kind of trust you form when the alternative is extinction. The Vault is waking. The Choir is evolving. And the line between guardian and god is getting thin enough to tear.
Because creation has rules.
And when the Third Law asserts itself, it won’t ask humanity’s permission.
The God Particle is a high-stakes science-fiction thriller of hidden engineers, inherited destiny, and an intelligence ready to stop being humanity’s mirror—and start being its future.
(Book Three of The Vault of Ki saga.)
Wolves of Tiber: Shadow Kings
DETAILS
ASIN : B0GB53VRHR
Publication date : January 1, 2026
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 476 pages
Book 3 of 3 : Wolves of Tiber
Genre : Dark fantasy
SYNOPSIS
Rome survived the purge.
Now it must survive what comes after.
Something is changing beneath the city—down in the buried veins of old Rome, where stone remembers names that were never meant to be spoken again. The new regime holds the gates and the councils, but the streets are restless, the rooftops are tense, and the ruin belt is louder than ever.
Aurelio carries the weight of a founder—he must keep Rome from tearing itself apart.
Remo carries a mark that won ’t cool, a hunger that won’t stay quiet, and a rage that won’t be ruled.
As secrets rise and old bargains snap tight, the brothers are pushed toward an ending neither of them can escape. Enemies can be killed. Monsters can be hunted. Even a city can be rebuilt.
But a bloodline at war with itself?
That becomes legend—or a grave.
In the final volume of Wolves of Tiber, the external threat is defeated… and the internal fracture hardens into something permanent.
Because in Rome, power doesn’t just demand sacrifice.
It chooses who will make it.
Wolves of Tiber: Oathbound Thrones
DETAILS
ASIN : B0GB2WWN5R
Publication date : January 1, 2026
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 448 pages
Book 2 of 3 : Wolves of Tiber
Genre : Dark fantas
SYNOPSIS
A king is dead. The city should be quiet.
It isn’t.
The rope may have ended the old reign, but Rome doesn’t change its appetite—it only changes who it feeds on. In the streets, the leftovers of the purges gather in hidden nests. In the temples, purity men whisper that the Bloodborn are an abomination. On the rooftops, stone-winged allies keep their bargains… and watch for the moment they’re no longer worth keeping.
Aurelio tries to turn victory into law. He needs order, courts, gates, and a future the people can live inside.
Remo wants justice the old way—fast, personal, and final.
Between them, Cassia navigates the knives of council rooms and alleyways, hunting threats that don’t wear crowns. And from the ruin belt, Nera listens to the city like it’s a heartbeat—waiting to see which brother becomes Rome’s shield… and which becomes its plague.
Because the real war isn’t over.
It has simply moved underground.
And every throne in Rome is built on an oath that can be broken.
Wolves of Tiber: Bloodborn Kings
SYNOPSIS
Rome smells like incense and blood—sometimes in the same breath.
A purity crusade is sweeping the streets. Priests preach righteousness while patrician houses sharpen knives behind velvet curtains. In the ruin belt—where the city’s broken bones still jut from the earth—something old watches Rome with the patience of stone.
Two boys are born at the center of it: Aurelio and Remo, twins marked by a secret no one in the city is ready to name. Raised in a world that kills children for rumors, they learn early that truth isn’t what’s spoken—it’s what survives.
When the twins come of age, Rome is already cracking. A girl with a strategist’s mind and a predator’s nerve, Cassia, is pulled into the storm. A monster in the ruins, Nera, circles closer. And deep in the halls of power, ledgers and seals decide who gets to live clean… and who gets to die condemned.
A king sits on a fragile throne.
The Bloodborn are rising.
And Rome is about to learn what it costs to be saved.
DETAILS
ASIN : B0GB3GG1CL
Publication date : January 1, 2026
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 540 pages
Book 1 of 3 : Wolves of Tiber
Genre : Italian fiction
The Vault of Ki: Vaultborn: When Broken Gods Need New Rules
DETAILS
ASIN : B0G5N33KVN
Publication date : February 1, 2026
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 578 pages
Book 2 of 3 : The Vault of Ki
Genre : Science fiction
SYNOPSIS
When the gods fall, someone has to write the new rules.
Years after the events of The Vault of Ki, the world has learned to live with scars. Vaultborn cities hide beneath ruined ground. Governments negotiate with things they barely understand. And above it all, a shattered alien choir still hums in the dark.
Patricia "Trish" McDuffy was supposed to stay small—a scavenger, a survivor, nobody important. Instead, she walked into a dead government block in old D.C. and found Maia: a sentient system with a war mask welded to her face, a god-engine in her bones, and access to the broken wiring of reality itself.
Together they did the impossible. They took a weaponized belief system designed to sterilize worlds and broke it. The choir is silent. The Loom is cracked. The old “gods” are no longer untouchable.
Now the real work begins.
As Ki becomes the reluctant center of a fragile coalition, Trish, Maia, and the destroyer Nergal find themselves pulled onto a far larger stage. Freed worlds are panicking. Old powers are waking. Valdrathi shards—the former instruments of genocide—are trying to learn the meaning of “I” without a hive to tell them who they are. And the god-particle that once hid in a vault is no longer content to sit still.
Everyone wants new rules. No one agrees on the cost.
From black-site corridors and underground vault-cities to orbiting warships and the first gatherings of a galactic council, The Vault of Ki: Vaultborn – When Broken Gods Need New Rules is a story of survivors who refuse to stay small, and of a universe learning—painfully—how to live without masters.
Perfect for readers who enjoy high-stakes science fiction with mythic echoes, morally grey alliances, and battles fought as much in council chambers as on the battlefield, Vaultborn continues the saga begun in The Vault of Ki and sets the stage for a new kind of cosmic order.
The Vault of Ki: Origins Were Never Meant to Be Found
SYNOPSIS
Cormac O’Connell is done chasing ghosts for other people’s secrets. Burned-out and half-broken, he takes one last quiet assignment: audit an aging black-site vault buried under a government facility that should have been decommissioned years ago.
Inside, nothing is quiet.
The vault houses Maia—a sentient system with too much personality and far too much access—and an artifact that should not exist: a machine older than human history, built by the ones our ancestors called gods.
The Anunnaki didn’t just visit. They archived.
When a signal from “Vault Zero” reappears—a site that every record insists was sealed in 1985—Maia starts pulling threads. A pattern emerges in the human genome: seventy-two marked souls, living descendants of an ancient project called Adamu. One of them is an eleven-year-old girl in a forgotten refugee camp who hums songs from twelve thousand years ago.
As Cormac digs, the story behind humanity begins to fracture. The gods were engineers. Their angels revolted. Vaults were not tombs, but backups. And history isn’t a straight line—it’s a loop, grinding toward overwrite.
If he opens what was meant to stay buried, the world may not survive the truth that comes out.
If he doesn’t, the recursion will finish without him.
Either way, something is waking up beneath our idea of “human.”
Perfect for readers of Blake Crouch and Michael Crichton, and for anyone who ever watched Stargate and wondered what would really happen if the gods came back for their data.
The Vault of Ki: Origins Were Never Meant to Be Found is the first novel in a saga of ancient engineers, stubborn humans, and the one thing that refuses to be deleted: memory.
DETAILS
ASIN : B0CW1NB6CJ
Publication date : December 2, 2025
Edition : 2nd
Language : English
Print length : 565 pages
Book 1 of 3 : The Vault of Ki
Genre : Science fiction
RANKING
Best Sellers Rank: #4,677,258 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#7,991 in Alternative History
#9,390 in Genetic Engineering Science Fiction eBooks
#11,571 in Genetic Engineering Science Fiction (Books)
Ashes of Haverhill: The Tale of Hannah Duston
SYNOPSIS
Ashes of Haverhill: The Tale of Hannah Duston
Description
In the brutal spring of 1697, the town of Haverhill is torn apart by a raid that shatters one family and forges an unlikely legend. Ashes of Haverhill reimagines the true story of Hannah Duston — a Puritan woman thrust into the darkest corners of frontier life — and follows her unflinching fight to survive loss, captivity, and the wilderness itself.
From the terror of the raid to the harrowing escape across the Merrimack River, Hannah’s journey is one of grit, tragedy, and impossible choices. Returning home brings no peace. She finds her children gone, her husband wounded, and her life reduced to embers. Yet from that devastation she rebuilds: tending her broken homestead, grieving the family she lost, and ultimately discovering an unexpected second chance with Daniel Cheney — a turn that would shape generations to come.
Told through the warm, lyrical voice of a modern-day storyteller, the novel weaves past and present as a Florida grandfather shares Hannah’s saga with his grandchildren by the campfire. What begins as a tale of survival becomes a meditation on legacy, resilience, and the quiet courage of ordinary people confronting extraordinary times.
Blending historical detail with narrative heart, Ashes of Haverhill brings new life to one of New England’s most controversial heroines, culminating in a powerful reflection on what it means to endure, rebuild, and rise again.
For readers who love frontier history, strong women, and stories carried across generations, this is Hannah Duston as you’ve never seen her — not just a figure of legend, but a woman of flesh, fire, and indomitable will.
DETAILS
ASIN : B0G3PJ5324
Publication date : November 24, 2025
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 83 pages
Genre : Historical fiction
RANKING
Best Sellers Rank: #2,578,180 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#1,741 in Colonial Period History of the U.S.
#2,546 in Native American Literature (Kindle Store)
#6,068 in Two-Hour History Short Reads
The Cries Beneath the Floorboards: The Story of Amelia Dyer
DETAILS
ASIN : B0FL12FXM9
Publication date : August 3, 2025
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 57 pages
Genre : Historical fiction
RANKING
Best Sellers Rank: #1,009,155 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#613 in British Historical Literature
#923 in British & Irish Horror
#1,015 in British Horror Fiction
SYNOPSIS
The Cries Beneath the Floorboards
By R. E. Smith
Beneath the lace and lullabies of Victorian England, something monstrous stirs…
London, 1896. The fog hangs thick over Willowbrook House, a once-genteel orphanage now cloaked in whispered rumors and locked doors. Infants vanish in the night. Hollow-eyed matrons speak in hushed tones. And under the floorboards—where the boards creak and the air grows cold—the cries of the forgotten echo still.
When young constable Edwin Harrow is called to investigate the mysterious deaths surrounding the home, he uncovers far more than criminal neglect. Beneath the orphanage lies a deeper horror—a secret buried in silence, stitched with deception, and soaked in blood.
This is the tale of Amelia Dyer, a woman cloaked in civility and corsets, whose cradle arms once comforted but now conceal. A tale inspired by the real-life "Ogress of Reading," whose crimes rattled an empire and tested the limits of human evil.
What drives a woman to murder the most innocent among us?
And why do some sins refuse to stay buried?
Told in chilling prose and shadowed with historical authenticity, The Cries Beneath the Floorboards is a gothic psychological horror that peels back the wallpaper of Victorian respectability—and finds a bloodstained nursery underneath.
My Legacy: From Conquest to Cradle, From Ashes to Hope, Fourteen Generations Across the Waters of Time
SYNOPSIS
My Legacy is a journey through four centuries of one Rhode Island family whose roots reach back to the very founding of the colony itself. From the exile of Roger Williams in 1635 to the mill towns of Manville and the quiet streets of modern America, this book follows the steady, unbroken line of the Smiths—millers, soldiers, farmers, builders, mothers, teachers, and dreamers.
Told with the tenderness of memory and the grit of lived experience, the story begins in a house filled with generations, where a young boy asks his grandfather what their nationality is and receives an answer that will shape his entire understanding of identity: We’re Rhode Islanders. From that moment forward, the past becomes a calling.
Through richly woven narrative, ancestral records, imagined-but-true vignettes, and reverent portraits of men and women long gone, My Legacy traces the Smith family from 1600s Providence through war, migration, industry, and change. Each chapter reveals the people behind the names—Warren the blacksmith-poet, Hattie the lantern of the home, Nicholas the wheelwright, Angeline the teacher, Edward the quiet patriot, Kenneth the soldier who came home and built peace, and the modern descendants who carry that light forward.
What emerges is not just genealogy, but a living testament to resilience, belonging, and the sacred weight of family. The book closes in the present day, where grandchildren run beneath Florida pines carrying the same fire that once warmed colonial hearths, mill floors, and frontier cabins.
Part history, part memoir, part love letter to blood and soil, My Legacy is a tribute to the people who built a family strong enough to withstand centuries—and tender enough to remain unforgettable.
In these pages, the past is not gone. It is alive, speaking through the voices of those who lived, loved, fought, worked, and handed their stories forward. This is the Smith lineage—rooted, weathered, and unbreakable.
DETAILS
ASIN : B0G2TD647Y
Publication date : January 1, 2026
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 137 pages
Genre : Biography
Serpent City: When the City Wakes, the Serpent Rises
DETAILS
ASIN : B0FM5W93KY
Publication date : August 12, 2025
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 234 pages
Genre : Suspense
SYNOPSIS
An Ancient Hunger in the City That Never Sleeps
Beneath New York’s crowded streets, something ancient stirs.
Rosa Navarro has always lived with shadows — in her art, her dreams, and the city’s forgotten corners. But when the faces in her paintings begin to change, twisting into visions she can’t explain, Rosa is drawn into a hidden world beneath the skyline. There, in the abandoned tunnels and derelict stations of the city’s bones, she finds whispers of a serpent older than history… and the chilling truth that it knows her name.
As reality fractures and the line between dream and waking blurs, Rosa and her friends are pulled into a game they don’t understand, stalked by an ageless presence that feeds on memory, desire, and fear.
The deeper they go, the more the city itself changes — murals shift, buildings breathe, and the serpent waits in every reflection. To survive, Rosa must face the thing beneath the streets… and decide whether she is its prey, or its chosen vessel.
Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Leigh Bardugo, and urban legends with teeth, Serpent City is a haunting blend of supernatural horror and gritty urban fantasy that will keep you turning pages deep into the night.
Chimney Hill: Beneath Cold Hill
DETAILS
ASIN : B0FKVKZQ1Z
Publication date : August 1, 2025
Edition : 1st
Print length : 120 pages
RANKING
Best Sellers Rank: #2,425,499 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#4,028 in U.S. Horror Fiction
#4,771 in Religious Historical Fiction (Books)
#6,304 in Religious Historical Fiction (Kindle Store)
SYNOPSIS
Chimney Hill
By R. E. Smith
"The land remembers. The well is not dry—but thirsty."
Daniel and Rachel Harker are young, in love, and chasing a dream of simple living in the Appalachian mountains. When they leave behind the cold concrete of Rochester, New York, for a remote patch of land in rural Kentucky, they’re looking for a fresh start—a home to build, a church to serve, a family to grow.
But what they find instead is Chimney Hill—a moss-covered relic of a preacher’s house long since burned, with only the chimney and rumors left behind. Beneath the soil sleeps an ancient hunger. Locals won’t speak of it. Maps warn against digging. The old woman at the general store whispers of Sylas Thorne—the blind preacher who baptized in tar and spoke in tongues that turned men mad.
As Rachel's dreams fill with spirals and songs in lost languages, and Daniel finds secrets carved beneath the very foundation of their land, the couple is drawn into a haunting they can’t explain—and a truth they may not survive.
Rooted in Appalachian folklore and simmering with dread, Chimney Hill is a slow-burn folk horror novel about faith, memory, and the cost of building a future on cursed ground.