Book news, serial entries, reader experiences, publication notes, and occasional messages from my desk.
The Spanish-language Kindle edition of LA ÚLTIMA RUTA DE MERCY RIDGE is now available.
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Some losses do not end a life. They reveal the life that was waiting beneath certainty.
The Man Who Thought He Lost Everything is the novel at the center of my romance library. It is a story about love, grief, identity, and what happens when the future you trusted disappears.
The novel is available on Kindle in English and Spanish.
For readers discovering my work for the first time, this is where I recommend beginning.
Thirty years ago, seven-year-old Jonah Mercer disappeared into the woods off Old Mill Road. Three days later, he came back. But he did not come back alone.
Now the drawings of children at Mill Creek Elementary are leading Jonah back toward a boy the world has somehow forgotten, a dark wooden chair marked RESERVED, and a correction that has been waiting for thirty years.
YOU’RE LATE is a supernatural horror novel about memory, guilt, childhood fear, and the terrifying possibility that a person can disappear long before anyone realizes they are gone.
Readers who want the darker, immersive doorway can also enter File 001 at Night Vendor Horror.
Doce años después de abandonar Mercy Ridge, Aurelio Belmonte regresa con una sola intención: vender el último pedazo de tierra de su familia y marcharse. Pero una nueva temporada de fuego rompe el plan.
Cuando una evacuación falla y una vieja lista de sobrevivientes deja de cuadrar, Aurelio queda atrapado entre el incendio que avanza y una verdad que el pueblo enterró durante años.
LA ÚLTIMA RUTA DE MERCY RIDGE es una novela sobre culpa, verdad, supervivencia y la forma más difícil de esperanza: cuidar lo que queda.
A dead man arrives in Autopsy Room Four wearing someone else’s face. The skin is warm. The sutures are gold. Then the face moves.
The God of 1000 Faces is now available in both Kindle and paperback editions.
Forensic facial reconstruction specialist Dr. Ione Mercer has congenital prosopagnosia, so she has spent her life learning people through voice, movement, scars, habits, and memory. Twelve years after her younger sister Tamsin disappeared, an impossible corpse speaks in Tamsin’s voice and gives Ione a warning: He needs a thousand.
What follows is a cinematic supernatural horror thriller of living masks, stolen identities, impossible bodies, grief, recognition, and the terrifying difference between seeing a face and knowing the person behind it.
I have spent years building books, returning to unfinished work, and learning that not every meaningful human story needs to become a full manuscript.
A Story Stays grew from that realization. It is a free living Wall where people can read real stories, carry one private line with them, or submit a story of their own without paying or creating an account.
My own founding stories open the Wall. They begin with the work that kept returning, the name that finally reached a spine, the rooms built after long days, and the unfinished folders that became something larger.
The project lives separately from this Author House, but it began at the same desk.
A new horror release has arrived.
There Is No Lower Floor is now available as a Kindle ebook. It is an adult horror novel about a building that insists the place beneath you does not exist, even while the elevator, the walls, and the people who disappeared keep providing another answer.
This book belongs to the darker side of my published shelf. It was built as a complete descent, with its own rules, consequences, and ending, rather than a fragment waiting for the rest of the story.
Readers who first entered through my romance work will find a colder corridor here. The promise remains the same: the story must earn what it asks the reader to feel.
I have started working on a new book.
I am not ready to reveal its title yet, but the work has begun, and I am aiming toward a possible release on October 31, 2026.
That date is a target, not a promise. I would rather protect the book than force it across the finish line before it is ready. But if the story keeps moving the way it is moving now, Halloween may be the night I release it.
I will share more when the book has earned the right to be announced.
I wanted the private collection to honor the Circle in more than one form.
Gift II is now complete: thirteen illustrated founding relics, one for every permanent engraved seat, with phone editions, print keepsakes, collector pages, and the full private archive.
Gift III is quieter: an illustrated gratitude poem made for the Original Thirteen, carrying the rose, the thirteen-mark seal, a few honest lines, and my signature.
Together, the three gifts offer a story to enter, a relic to keep, and a page of gratitude created only for those who stood at the beginning.
The Circle remains private. The Founding Wall remains sealed.
Some news is announced. Other work appears quietly.
Chamber 13 is now open.
The first invitations will go to the readers who stood near the fire before there was a crowd, the ones who followed while the walls were still being built.
Visitor invitations may be granted at my discretion. The forged wall, however, is sealed. The names engraved there belong to the beginning and will not be replaced.
Those who receive an invitation will know where to enter.
Access is granted by invitation from the author only. Visiting the doorway does not guarantee admission.
If they learn your name, they save you a place.
Never Answer the Wall is now available on Kindle, along with its Spanish edition, Nunca le contestes a la pared.
Ivy Vale and Milo Vance enter a house where the wallpaper listens. It copies voices, learns names, and keeps a place for anyone who answers.
This story was written for younger horror readers, including preteen and young-adult readers who enjoy strange houses, dangerous rules, hidden names, and the feeling that something inside the walls has already noticed them.
Both editions can also be discovered through Night Vendor Horror, the separate home for my darker stories.
The fire did not end when the town stopped talking about it.
Entry 002 of The House Across the Fire is now open.
Silas Abarca has spent years living beneath the name Santa Bruma gave him. This entry moves closer to the truth carried through the fire, the silence that followed, and the person who was never allowed to leave it behind.
The novel is unfolding one entry at a time in two separate language editions. English remains English. Spanish remains Spanish. Readers can begin with Entry 001 or continue directly into Entry 002.
Not every visit to an author’s world has to begin with a long reading commitment.
The Little Fun Lounge is now open as a free place for readers to pause, play, explore, and take a small piece of the experience with them.
It was created for the moments between books, between chapters, or between difficult days when a lighter doorway feels right.
Nothing is required before entering. Choose a little fun, follow what catches your attention, and stay only as long as you want.
Some nights turn one mistake, one decision, or one painful memory into a verdict about an entire life.
For the Night You Think You Ruined Everything is the complimentary opening letter inside The Letter Room.
It is not a quick quote or a temporary message. It is a complete literary letter written to be opened slowly, kept, printed, or returned to when regret becomes louder than everything else.
The letter is available through the Hidden Library as a complimentary personal reading experience.
Some stories ask to arrive slowly.
The House Across the Fire began as a serial novel, opening one entry at a time for readers who want to enter while the story is still unfolding.
In Santa Bruma, love does not only break the rules. It exposes the lie.
Entry 001 begins with Alma Ríos, Silas Abarca, the fire the town remembers incorrectly, and the history neither of them has been allowed to escape.
Some work belongs beyond the public shelves.
TriuneShelf Patron Access is a private reading doorway for supporters who want to enter more deeply into the work, follow selected projects as they develop, and help sustain the worlds being built around the books.
It is meant to remain intentional, quiet, and closer to the desk than the public pages.
Readers who feel called toward that kind of access can enter through the existing patron doorway.
I wanted one place on this website where I could speak to readers without waiting for a new book, a formal announcement, or a social-media post.
The Author’s Desk is that place.
This is where I will share meaningful book news, new serial entries, reader experiences, publication milestones, and occasional notes about the work taking shape across this website.
When something appears here, it will be because there is a story, release, or moment worth sharing.
The Author’s Desk remains open whenever you want to return. Bookmark this page and come back when meaningful new work arrives.