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	What Good Girls Do (Elizabeth, #1) 3.54 avg rating — 1,803 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Good Men Do (Elizabeth, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 469 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chocolateman 4.24 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Filthy Secrets - A Novelette 3.80 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Loved Ones Will Die First by Jonathan Butcher (Goodreads Author), Ryan Harding (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Stuart Bray (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.06 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something Very Wrong: A Collection of Lurid Body Horror 3.95 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Couple O' Conjurings by Jonathan Butcher (Goodreads Author), Matthew Cash (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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NEW RELEASE: The Cold Visitor, July 15th

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My newest release, The Cold Visitor, will drop July 15th, 2025, and is my first chilling excursion into cosmic horror. This is NOT my usual approach, and I could not be more excited about its release. For this one (and perhaps any that follow...) I'm looking forward to swapping splatter for terror!

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