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Crime · Thriller · 2026

Once a Hero

by Dakota Mars

1986. Two seasoned detectives, Anderson and Alvarez, have worked enough raids to know that something is always about to go wrong. They just never expected it to go wrong like this.

What begins as a routine takedown on a cold November night unravels into a case that will follow them for the next two decades—one that asks whether the badges they carried protected the innocent or just protected each other. Set against the gritty, unforgiving backdrop of 1980s urban America, Once a Hero is a crime novel about loyalty, survival, and the impossible gap between the men we were and the ones we became.

Dark Drama · Supernatural · 2026

Bright Eyes

by Dakota Mars

After a devastating family tragedy, David drives back to his small Southern hometown with his young nephew Dylan — a boy who barely speaks and refuses to put down a photograph of his dead father.

The house they return to holds more than memories. As David struggles to keep himself together for the sake of the child, something in the walls of that house begins to make itself known — something that may have been waiting for exactly this kind of grief to arrive. Bright Eyes is a haunting story about loss, family, and the things children see that the adults around them have long since learned not to look at.

Science Fiction · Thriller · 2026

Residual

by Dakota Mars

The DelaCruz booths promised to end distance forever. Step inside, arrive anywhere. No delays, no traffic, no gap between you and the life you're trying to reach. For most people, they worked exactly as advertised.

But when a series of arrivals produces results that shouldn't be possible, one investigator starts to ask a question the company does not want asked: what — or who — is actually stepping out the other side? Residual is a taut, unsettling science fiction thriller about identity, technology, and the things we leave behind when we move too fast.

Gothic Fiction · Literary · 2026

The Room Above the Hall

by Dakota Mars

In the cold autumn of Sutherton City, a secret takes root inside the walls of a church — and the people who carry it must decide whether mercy or silence is the greater sin.

When Sister Mary approaches Father Gibson with an impossible truth, both are drawn into a web of faith, consequence, and institutional loyalty that will alter the church, and everything they thought they stood for, forever. The Room Above the Hall is a dark gothic novel about the weight of vows, the cost of compassion, and the particular darkness that accumulates in the most holy of places.