True Survival

Arriving at their romantic rendezvous at Mirror Pass, Will calls into the void for his missing wife and three-year-old daughter. Once reunited, Will, Faron and Suze, along with hiking companion Matt, discover with an overnight storm that their challenge to survive has just begun. With each paranormal time loop, the plot twists to offer a fresh threat to survival. From flash flood and whiteout, to enraged grizzly and blindside betrayal, Will faces disaster behind every door. Think Groundhog Day meets the Twilight Zone, in the heart of the Canadian wilderness. This magical realist novella was...

A riveting work of narrative nonfiction centering on the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India--one of at least two dozen tourists who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley.

PRELUDE TO THE FIFTH VITAL Mike Majlak was a seventeen-year-old from a loving, middle-class family in Milford, Connecticut, when he got caught up in the opioid epidemic that swept the nation. For close to a decade thereafter, his life was a wasteland of darkness and despair. While his peers were graduating from college, buying homes, getting married, having kids, and leading normal lives, Mike was snorting OxyContin, climbing out of cars at gunpoint, and burying his childhood friends. Unable to escape the noose of addiction, he eventually lost the trust and support of everyone who had ever ...