One headset. One overnight shift. Zero backup she can trust.
911-Dispatch Thriller · Locked-Room Mystery
Selah Vance has worked graveyard at Ferry Point 911 long enough to know a real scream from a good one. Tonight she's getting neither.
One caller. One console. And a night that ends only when Selah decides who she can still trust to answer.
Adult Coloring Book · Alien Botanical Specimens
Fifty otherworldly botanical specimens rendered in photorealistic grayscale — crystal blooms, bioluminescent pods, fractal petals waiting for you to color them back to life.
Screenlife Thriller · Psychological Thriller
Maru's recording — the one nobody ever thought she'd need — turns out to be the only proof anything happened at all.
Coastal noir from the Georgia coast. A Regency companion to Pride and Prejudice. Same author, different worlds — from the parlor to the marsh.
Literary Fiction · Historical
Jane Austen gave it three paragraphs. The summer before Pride and Prejudice. A fifteen-year-old girl on the Kentish coast, and a man named Wickham who knew exactly what he was doing. This is everything Austen left unwritten.
A Coastal Noir Mystery
Marcus Pruitt doesn't stay in one place for long. The Altamaha River delta is waiting — darker than the Atlantic, deeper than it looks, and home to a piece of property that has outlasted every legal challenge for three generations. In Darien, Georgia, some inheritances are worth killing for.
A Coastal Noir Mystery
Marcus Pruitt came to Heron's Bluff for a story. In a town where old money controls the waterfront and a rezoning vote has everyone holding their breath, the story has a body in it — and the body didn't get there on its own.
Atlas Valley writes across worlds — and means that in more than one sense.
There is Ramsgate, where a fifteen-year-old girl on the Kentish coast is about to make the mistake that shadows every corner of Pride and Prejudice — and where Austen's most famous novel becomes, on a second reading, an entirely different book. There is the Georgia coast, where a forensic journalist named Marcus Pruitt arrives in towns that don't want him and stays until the truth gets tired of hiding. There is an iron ladder on a stone wall somewhere between here and there — warm to the touch, smelling of ozone — and two brothers who follow it to a world the maps have never reached. There is a place where the boundary between instinct and identity runs paper-thin, and love turns out to be the most preternatural force in any room.
The pen name, like the best maps, tells you where you are while reminding you there is still territory left to explore.
"Every constellation is a story someone told about the dark. The stars just held their positions long enough for the rest of us to catch up."
— Atlas Valley
Wide range. Deep roots.
The Marcus Pruitt Mysteries continue — each book a new county, a new conspiracy, and a new reason to remember that the man the killer never sees coming has been watching the whole time. Other stories are further along the horizon: a fantasy built on a world's deep memory; a supernatural series where the most dangerous thing in the room is love itself; a thriller set inside a small Southern church that photographs beautifully and keeps things buried. From the parlor to the marsh to the stars.
Stay close. There's more where this came from.
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