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	What Good Girls Do (Elizabeth, #1) 3.54 avg rating — 1,839 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) 4.12 avg rating — 480 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 4.23 avg rating — 159 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
	The Cold Visitor 3.97 avg rating — 118 ratings — 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
	Filthy Secrets - A Novelette 3.78 avg rating — 101 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) 4.07 avg rating — 88 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
	The Chocolateman 4.04 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Motel Styx Undressed: A companion book to the Motel Styx series by Jonathan Butcher (Goodreads Author), Michelle von Eschen (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings — 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
	The Children at the Bottom of the Gardden 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2018 — 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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NEW RELEASE: The Cold Visitor, July 15th

It's going to be a cold summer...

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!

This has been a year-long labour of love, and I've

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