As part of a promotional campaign for my new mystery/suspense/thriller, The Gouge , NewInBooks.com has interviewed me and featured The Gouge on the website.  It's just a small piece, but if either of you two are interested, please check it out! The interview just posted today. Hope you enjoy!  Interview on NewInBooks There is also a wide selection of other amazing books that they are featuring this week.  Don't overlook them!  This world is filled with a slew of amazing independent authors, and if we don't support them, no one may ever hear about them. Until next week, keep reading and buy indie!

 Alright, second post in two days, that's a record for me, but I really want to share this book trailer for The Gouge.  Check it out!  I hope you enjoy it, and it piques your interest in the story.  The Gouge is available now on Amazon!  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08YF7R1NL

 My breakout novel, The Gouge, is now available for sale in Print and digital format!  If you are a Kindle Unlimited member, you can download your copy for free! "I haven't forgotten what you did!" Carson Bates left Cypress Creek to hide from his dark and troubled past. Twenty-two years later, a simple text messages reveals that his secrets have caught up with him. The freshly slain bodies of two teenage girls have been discovered in the woods of Cypress Creek. The methods in which the girls were killed is identical to the ones that were found nearly twenty-two years earlier. Now retired, the detective who worked the first case has long suspected that Carson Bates knew more than what he revealed in interrogation. When Carson returns to Cypress Creek to finally face his past, it’s soon clear that Carson isn’t the only person in that small-town that is harboring dark secrets about that night. ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08YF7R1NL I hope that you do enj

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