The average book contains between 70,000 and 100,000 words. The average reader will finish one in about six hours. Six hours of complete immersion, total escape, and zero notifications. This week we have several options ready to claim those six hours—and your full, undivided attention.
I have 2 amazing books launching this week, starting on Tuesday.
This Week’s New Releases
Title: The Rising Grounds
Series: Slaughter Grounds Book 3
Release Date: 10/06/2026
Nobody climbs out of the Slaughter Grounds whole.
The voice telling Lucian Chevalier to abandon his people sounds exactly like his own. He and five wounded survivors are crossing a crystal wilderness, following a scholar’s trembling needle toward the last way out. Then they find the camp. Bedrolls still laid out. A kettle over cold ash. Four armed people gone without a sound, and the thing that took them has a name.
The survivors call him the Collector, a condemned noble who drains Ether through touch. Chasing is beneath him. He waits. When he slips inside Lucian’s head, he doesn’t threaten. He reasons.
The whispers make one offer. Leave the wounded. Cross the ridge alone. Lucian learned on the border where to put the knife so the cut looks like mercy, and the Collector knows exactly where that wound sits. Daylight won’t end it. The world above has a name for what climbs out of the dark, and nobody says it kindly.
Can Lucian carry all six of them into the light without becoming the thing that hunts them? Or will the Grounds get what they always wanted, one more man who chose to live? Grab The Rising Grounds and decide for yourself where mercy ends.
Title: The King’s Decree
Series: The Anchor’s Inheritance Saga Book 4
Release Date: 10/07/2026
Survival keeps him alive. Helpful just cost him everything he can’t afford to lose.
Survival has one rule for Nick Vance: never get attached to what can be taken from you. Helpful has a different rule: everyone deserves a sky. When a source node broke open and dropped six strangers into his hands, Helpful started winning.
Now the Guild wants its property back—and it isn’t alone. Kaela keeps her tether light and her draw lighter, bleeding herself dry so Nick doesn’t have to. Ashlen is drafting paperwork fast enough to keep the Crown from claiming what he risked everything to save, all while the calendar ticks toward a royal wedding that will make his choices hers to answer for. Then a foreign seal turns up on a Guild ledger—proof the enemy he knows was never working alone.
Nick built his barony on one law: no one touches what hasn’t said yes. He’s about to find out what that law costs when the people counting on it outnumber the teeth he has to protect them.
Can he hold the line for six strangers, two women, and a crown that’s watching—or does someone get left in the dark to save the rest? Pick up The King’s Decree today!