Books on Pre-order

These are the books on pre-order that will be released within the next few months. Click the book title links to purchase your copy today.

The Mind Worms

by Nicholas Kaufmann

(Release date – 3/12/2024)

Over the years, Dr. Laura Powell has seen things in her morgue that no one has ever seen beforeā€”a corpse filled with an unknown fungus, a body completely petrified mere moments after deathā€”but she’s never had a dead body wake up on the autopsy table.

Until now.

Environmental scientist Jordan Mintz was pronounced dead after suffering a mysterious illness. Now, suddenly, he finds himself alive once more, but changed. Plagued by visions of worms and an unforgiving, insatiable hunger, he wonders if he’s the same man he was before.

Or if he’s even human anymore.

After a brutal act of violence rocks the small Hudson Valley city of Sakima, Jordan goes missing. With the help of forensic tech Park Dae-jung and chief of police Elena Morales, Laura searches for answers. How is Jordan alive again? What is the unknown illness that supposedly killed him in the first place? And most importantly, where did Jordan go?

Because time is running out. There are other people looking for Jordan, too. People who would have preferred he stay dead. But that’s not the worst of it. Something is growing inside of Jordan, something inhuman, dangerous, and deadly. When it emerges, no one anywhere will be safe.

With The Mind Worms, multiple award-nominated bestselling author Nicholas Kaufmann delivers yet another riveting, fast-paced thriller in the Dr. Laura Powell series.

The Mirror of Eternity

by Garrett Boatman

(Release date – 3/12/2024)

In the Desert of Dudael, the demon Azazel is freed from the pit where he has dwelled for millennia. On the frozen world of Abyss, fallen angels banished from earth in the time of Enoch, prepare for their return.

But the world is vanishing. Soon there will be battleground for neither man nor demon.

Rick Scott has sworn off magic, but when he receives a summons from his former mentor, he must travel the ravaged wasteland of time and gaze into the mirror of eternity before the world plunges into the white-hot singularity of creation.

But there are creatures that dwell within timeā€™s labyrinth who would sate their unspeakable hunger on the unwary traveler.

Hospice

by Rick Jones

(Release date – 4/2/2024)

Joey Cavello, a man with a terminal illness, enters a hospice where he picks up on strange occurrences such as the mysterious occupant who resides on the second floor, something with a terrible origin; or the strange and impenetrable fog that surrounds the facility thatā€™s keeps everyone in like a holding pen; and what about the mysterious and blind administrator who appears to be omniscient, and a man of cruel judgment.

What is the thing on the second floor? What is the purpose of the dense mist that encircles the facility? And what is the administratorā€™s true and underlying purpose for those who enter the Hospice?

Cavello, who bands together with others, tries to unveil the hospiceā€™s dark and supernatural secret. But can they unravel its sinister mystery before they are eternally damned? The clock is ticking.

Little Bones

by David Baillie

(Release date – 4/2/2024)

Hamilton, Ontario, 1953.

A nine-year-old boy meets with a horrific death at the hands of a sociopath; his little body is then hidden away in a soon-to-be-sealed tenement coal chute where it lies for two decades. The remains, discovered by contractors rerouting a pipe in 1974, make for sensational news; the fact that ten small bones are missing causes further speculation. But interest in the cold case fades quicklyā€”except in the imagination of a tragically lonely boy named Scott Campbell, a resident of that sad building who suffers (equally) from undiagnosed Selective Mutism and the terrible neglect of his mentally ill mother. In the buildingā€™s furnace room, Scotty meets his one and only friend: a childā€™s playful, coal-black shadow that follows him through a litany of foster homes and into adulthood.

Now, in 1987, thirteen years after the discovery of those remains, Scotty is an enigmatic street artist who makes strange sculptures out of found objects, which he leaves in the forgotten and overlooked corners of the city. Scottyā€™s social worker, Simon, despairs over Scottyā€™s plight: the mute will soon be completely on his own, for he aged out of government-sponsored aid almost two years ago and is now living on the remnants of a miracle extension arranged by Simonā€™s boss. Simon also has his own dilemma: as a Mohawk with invested interest in the Six Nations of the Grand River, he feels like he is betraying his own community by working for the government-funded Childrenā€™s Aid Society in Hamilton. Caught between pressure at home and the impending end of Scottyā€™s meagre support, Simon is losing faith in both the System and himself.

Little Bones is a heart-rending tale of loss, redemption, and the cruel consequences of investing in that most beautiful of liesā€”hope.

Please Don’t Tell My Parents I Saved the World Again

by Richard Roberts

(Release date – 4/23/2024)

Magic, mad science, and teenagers are a recipe for trouble. As the only living necromancer, fifteen-year-old Avery Special has too much trouble as it is. Trying to use her dark powers for good, she awakens a cyborg from a coma.

The superintelligent Tonika is grateful and full of plans to help Avery help others, but the more Avery helps, the more trouble she gets in.

Her parents are worried. Her boyfriend and girlfriend are lonely. A robot-possessing ghost is on the loose. Oh, and she stole a crystal ball from a museum. How much helping is too much?

Can she afford to not help when the ultimate evil mad scientist tries to destroy the world?

When at Last I Find You

by Aaron Gudmunson

(Release date – 5/7/2024)

When family man Paul Jeske discovers an envelope in his mailbox addressed to one Lucine Korth, curiosity drives him to investigate this unique name. His research turns up images of an intensely attractive woman who lives only blocks from his home. As Paul delves further into this emergent fixation, blurring lines both legal and moral, his professional and family life suffer. Soon this game of cat-and-mouse progresses into perpetually-more perilous territory and Paul learns an astonishing truth about Lucine Korthā€¦and that things are rarely ever as they appear.

At once an examination of obsession in the digital age and the fragile nuances of modern family dynamics, When at Last I Find You asks how far would you go to obtain the unobtainable? What would you risk to satisfy your curiosity? And are you willing to make the ultimate sacrificeā€”family, career, sanity, and soulā€”to say you succeeded?

Missed Connection

by Michael Laimo

(Release date – 5/21/2024)

New York City Fashion Executive Peter Delmonico has had a rough life. Physically abused by his father as a child, and mentally abused by his wife as an adult, he sees no choice but to let his inner demons guide him through life. Obsessed with photography for as long as he can remember, he takes a detour one afternoon into NYCā€™s Bryant Park, where he snaps a photo of a beautiful woman who bumps into him, and then kisses him, only to vanish into the crowd as mysteriously as she appeared. Determined to bring true love into his life, Peter sets out on a journey throughout Manhattan to find her, his only real lead the photo he took of her in his camera.

Missed Connection is an intense erotic thriller filled with twists and turns, a raunchy, funny, sexy, satirical, and somewhat diabolical look at life in Manhattan through the eyes of a damaged man who only wants to love, and be loved.

ā€œThis taut page-turner has a harrowing premise, breakneck first-person narrative, and one hell of a final twist. Thriller Fans: donā€™t miss MISSED CONNECTION!ā€ — New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub

ā€œSleek as a bullet and just as deadly, Michael Laimo is in top form. MISSED CONNECTION is not to be missed!ā€ ā€”Ronald Malfi, author of Come With Me and Black Mouth

Uncle Vincent’s House

by Steven Beai

(Release date – 5/28/2024)

At Uncle Vincentā€™s house, unspeakable things come out at night.

Julian Baker has heard hushed whispers about the mystery from his family his entire life. In his senior year in high school, he vows to uncover the secret kept by those closest to him. What he discovers will change the lives of an entire town.

High atop Crumpton Hill in Harris, Indiana there is a place locals shun once night falls. A place where the dead reach out to the living and nightmares come to life to walk the grounds.

Whatever you do, donā€™t go outside after dark at Uncle Vincentā€™s house.

Imagine a place of mystery, where ghostly visions appear, the dead walk, and your every nightmare comes alive.

Welcome to Uncle Vincentā€™s house.