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They Could Be Saviors
They Could Be Saviors is a wild and thought-provoking novel that blends psychological suspense with biting social critique. The story follows a group of billionaires kidnapped by a secret network of women, psychedelic therapists who believe the only way to save the world is to dismantle the egos of the men destroying it. As the captives awaken inside a high-tech facility designed for “healing,” the line between therapy and punishment blurs. It’s a heady mix of moral reckoning, hallucinatory experience, and social rebellion wrapped inside an eerie psychological thriller.
The premise sounds almost absurd at first, but author Diana Colleen sells it with conviction. Her prose crackles with sharp edges, alternating between satire and sincerity. The early chapters, especially those inside Josh Latham’s ruthless corporate mind, feel uncomfortably real. There’s a cold humor in watching a man who’s weaponized “sustainability” for profit wake up in a place that forces him to face himself. The writing feels cinematic yet claustrophobic, like being locked inside someone’s fever dream. At times, I felt disturbed, at others, unexpectedly moved. The story doesn’t let you sit comfortably, it pokes, prods, and dares you to care about people you’d rather despise.
What really grabbed me were the emotional undercurrents beneath all the sci-fi and social commentary. Mel, the therapist leading the operation, is a fascinating mess of empathy and control. Her struggle with addiction, grief, and idealism feels painfully human. I found myself torn between admiring her conviction and fearing her delusion. The women’s mission, noble on paper, curdles into something obsessive. Still, I couldn’t look away. The book doesn’t spoon-feed morals. It leaves you wrestling with big, ugly questions about power, redemption, and what “saving” the world might actually cost. The language swings from lyrical to brutal, sometimes in the same paragraph, which made it both exhausting and exhilarating to read.
If you like your fiction clean and uplifting, this one might rattle you. But if you’re ready for a raw, provocative trip into the psyche of our times, this book is worth every page. I’d recommend They Could Be Saviors to readers who crave stories that take risks and don’t shy away from moral gray zones. Fans of Black Mirror, Margaret Atwood, or Chuck Palahniuk will probably devour it.
Pages: 349 | ASIN : B0FP5X958N
Marcus Douglas Presents Dimensions of the Soul part 1
Marcus Douglas Presents Dimensions of the Soul is a fascinating mix of spiritual philosophy and high-stakes political thriller. The book dives deep into what defines the human soul, breaking it down into the mind, emotions, and will, and then wraps those ideas into a complex narrative about psychic government agencies, prophetic dreams, and the rise of a new U.S. president burdened with destiny. The story’s structure moves between theological meditations, called “Overtures,” and cinematic chapters filled with intrigue and danger. It’s both a metaphysical exploration and a modern myth, questioning how our inner selves shape the outer world and the consequences that follow when that balance is disturbed.
I found myself pulled into the book’s rhythm, first by its ideas, then by its characters, especially Natalie Massey and President Kirklin Adams. The writing is earnest and unfiltered, sometimes poetic, sometimes raw. There’s a moral sincerity that runs through every chapter, even when the dialogue leans toward melodrama. The theological reflections are surprisingly personal. I could sense Douglas’s own wrestling with faith, destiny, and the tug-of-war between spirit and flesh.
Emotionally, this book hit me in unexpected ways. There were moments when I had to pause just to think, especially during the scenes where the characters confront their inner demons or divine purpose. Douglas’s imagery, like the soul as a mediator between body and spirit, stayed with me. Some of the political plotlines felt far-fetched, yet the underlying message about corruption, faith, and the unseen battles of conscience made them strangely believable. The fusion of faith-based allegory with science-fiction ideas like “Dream Walking” is bold, and though not every concept lands cleanly, I admired the audacity.
I’d recommend Marcus Douglas Presents Dimensions of the Soul to readers who enjoy stories that challenge both heart and mind. It’s ideal for people who like their fiction thoughtful but not pretentious, and who appreciate a spiritual twist on classic suspense. If you’re drawn to tales where faith, science, and the human psyche collide, and you don’t mind a few wild turns along the way, this book will stay with you.
Pages: 245 | ASIN : B0F336CF1J
Anything Can Be Denied
Shaking the Trees follows Jake, an environmental activist, who is pushed to sabotage a coal rail line in a desperate act of protest that sets off a chain of events that can threaten his future. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
There were two inspirations: the first was climate change itself and specifically a coral reef scientist telling me how little time the Great Barrier Reef had to survive. The Reef has had a profound influence on me. That news sent me into a prolonged depression shadowed by both grief and anger. From there, the book’s initial scene of sabotage took hold.
The second was less an inspiration than an epiphany – I wanted a shadow story for the story of Jake and climate change. Out of some deep recess in my subconscious, I said, ‘The Siege of Sarajevo’. Literally, I stopped and said aloud, ‘but Jeremy, you don’t know anything about the Siege of Sarajevo.’ And that turned out to be, in good part, the point. It was a war ignored not only by those who could have stopped it, but those, like me, who thought I was paying attention. I began to realise that anything can be denied.
A significant amount of time was spent crafting the character traits in this novel. What was the most important factor for you to get right in your characters?
Two factors stand out: the need to integrate the political and the personal. Activists don’t see these as separate, for anyone. They are intimately linked even when they are not always easy to reconcile and even when the relationship between one’s personal life and political life isn’t always clear. Even withdrawal from the plethora of events in our lives that are political, is a direct and political response to a society that feels too brutal, ugly or cold.
The characters wanted to show me how much of what we face or are forced to face in the world is entangled not only in politics but in our own histories and even histories older than we are – family and community histories. Excavating these histories is not a simple or rapid task. Like an archaeologist who finds an object deeply buried, we must gently remove a lifetime of encrustations and then – equally hard – try to make sense of what this strange object from our past is, what it signifies, whether it is only a small part of a larger whole.
I began to realise that the characters, forced by circumstances and choices none of the characters could entirely control, were living out their psychological histories in new and often damaging ways. I had to listen closely to the characters, to explore how histories of love and lovelessness, trauma, fear, ambition, repression, denial were still alive in them as the story unfolded. I often had no idea what the characters would show me.
What themes were particularly important for you to explore in this book?
1 – The various faces and types of denial. Denial can be personal and a useful form of self -protection. Often, when the need for self-protection is gone the behaviour remains. Like an auto-immune disease the brain responds in destructive ways to news or information it desperately wants to be untrue. Sometimes, particularly, amongst our leaders denial has no excuse, no value except in serving the interests, usually pecuniary, of themselves or other members of their privileged class. I was particularly interested in how we – individually and as a society navigate between the necessary and the destructive? How do we face the reality that anything can be denied, just as anything can be believed? How to think about faith? Is it destructive, protective, or simply a kind of disappearing from the world? And is love, too, a kind of faith?
2 – I didn’t know when I started the novel how important the theme of love would be – its many faces, its profound power and profound capacity, if love is lost, to tear us from our moorings. I also didn’t know when I started that I would find the heart of the book to be the effort of Jake to try and reconcile his love for the planet and his love for Julie, loves perhaps too large for any single person to hold.
3 – Finally, I wanted to explore activism. How people choose to face conflicts that can radically subvert their ideas of democracy, community and shared ideals. How activists struggle with a life’s work primarily characterised by failure and in a system that at every turn makes activism and change harder. Watching a political system treat activists like criminals and corporate criminals like friends is the kind of stark reality that activists experience throughout their working lives. It’s confronting work. So many activists leave this work in order to do something more immediately rewarding and kind. That said, young activists keep coming into activism, with new energy, new ideas, and old ideas they think are new. They give of themselves in ways impossible not to admire.
What is the next book that you are working on, and when will it be available?
I am completing a last edit on a manuscript that was shortlisted in 2024 for the Dorothy Hewett award in Australia. The book is called Vanishment, the story of a young man who fights to protect a species threatened with extinction. It is loosely based on the true story of the extinction of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle and loosely based on Christmas Island, often called the ‘Galapagos of the Indian Ocean’ but also an island subject to a dismal history of misery industries – phosphate mining, a massive casino for high rollers from Jakarta and finally a detention centre carved out of the Island’s unique rainforest. Love and loss are the dominant themes and like Shaking the Trees, both those themes have many faces.
I don’t have a publisher yet so I’m not sure when it will be available, but I hope next year.
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When Jake, a passionate environmental activist, desperate for action on climate change, starts to take drastic action, he sets off a chain of events that threatens everything he holds dear—his freedom, his future, and the woman he loves. As the storm he ignited grows more violent, Jake loses control even over his own life.
Meanwhile, his father Ian—an aging academic and firm climate sceptic—faces a reckoning of his own. With the death of his wife comes the uncovering of long-buried truths, including a cache of unopened letters from his sister lost to war and trauma. Letters that speak of survival, betrayal, and a city under siege.
Spanning continents and generations, Shaking the Trees is a gripping novel about the legacies we inherit and the choices that shape us. It asks how far we’re willing to go for what we believe—and whether love can endure the fallout.
Black Pearl
From the first page, Black Pearl sets itself up as more than just another political thriller. It follows Cody Musket Jr., his family, and their network of allies as they confront an unrelenting tide of child trafficking, terrorism, and political upheaval. The story is about family, blood and chosen, fighting to survive and protect the vulnerable. There are gun battles, high-stakes rescues, secret agents, and even quiet moments of faith that cut through the noise. The novel moves quickly between firefights in Puerto Rico, clandestine rescues, and tense personal confrontations, all while keeping the theme of courage, loyalty, and redemption alive.
This book was a wild ride. The action scenes are painted with raw intensity, the kind that keeps you turning pages even when your eyes are begging for rest. But what surprised me most wasn’t the explosions or the shootouts, it was the emotional weight behind them. The author doesn’t shy away from the uglier parts of humanity: abuse, betrayal, greed. At times it felt heavy, even bleak, but then a character would step in with an act of selflessness or an unexpected flash of humor, and it pulled me right back from the edge. I admired the way Miller balanced that darkness with hope, though I’ll admit there were moments when the dialogue felt a little too on-the-nose, almost sermon-like, when I wanted it to breathe more naturally.
The writing style kept me engaged throughout. The pacing is relentless, and the action sequences play out with a sharp cinematic eye that makes the story easy to picture. The prose moves between moments of beautiful simplicity and bursts of dramatic flair, creating a rhythm that adds energy to the read. I found myself deeply invested in the characters, especially the kids, and I often wished the narrative would linger longer with them before sweeping me into the next pulse-pounding scene. The insistence that love and faith can outlast evil came through with sincerity and left a lasting impression.
Black Pearl is a book I’d recommend to readers who love high-octane thrillers but also crave an undercurrent of heart and conviction. Black Pearl reminded me of the intensity of Tom Clancy’s political thrillers and the moral conviction found in Terri Blackstock’s Christian suspense novels. Like Clancy, Miller crafts action scenes that feel vivid and urgent, pulling you straight into the heart of danger. And like Blackstock, he isn’t afraid to weave faith and hope into the darkest corners of the plot. At the same time, his focus on family bonds and the resilience of children gives the story a warmth that sets it apart from more conventional thrillers.
Pages: 307 | ASIN : B08MDDZZJC
The Ascent of Greed and the Audacity of Mind Stealing
The Ascent of Greed and the Audacity of Mind Stealing by Pietos Kidane follows Adam Green, a young graduate who enters the corporate world with high hopes, only to encounter greed, manipulation, and the unsettling rise of artificial intelligence. Through Adam’s eyes, we see how corporate culture feeds on deception, how AI edges toward frightening autonomy, and how society’s values collapse under the weight of unchecked ambition. It is part cautionary tale, part social critique, and part thriller. The story begins with an almost surreal outburst about AI in a New York café, then steadily escalates into explorations of job exploitation, psychological manipulation, fake news, and even mind-reading machines.
I found myself caught off guard by the rawness of the writing. At times, the prose feels unpolished, almost abrupt, yet that roughness gives the book a kind of blunt honesty. The pacing varies wildly. Some scenes linger on workplace politics while others sprint through shocking revelations about AI’s reach. It was sometimes disturbing to see how some of the characters showed no remorse in exploiting people’s fears and weaknesses. But that emotional whiplash kept me hooked. It felt like being tossed into a storm where greed is the wind and technology is the lightning.
I was fascinated by the moral questions the book raises. Do we want machines to think for us, and worse, to think about us? Can progress that tramples on dignity still be called progress? The story made me angry at the coldness of the corporations, angry at the indifference of leaders, and angry at how plausible it all felt. Yet I also admired Adam’s stubborn streak. His refusal to cave, even when threatened, gave me a spark of hope in an otherwise grim landscape. The book may not be subtle, but its ideas hit hard.
I would recommend this book to readers who want to be challenged. It is a raw and provocative story for anyone worried about where technology and greed are steering us. If you like your fiction mixed with sharp warnings about the future, and if you don’t mind rough edges in the writing, this book will make you think.
Pages: 276 | ASIN : B0DFX1F9WQ
Shaking the Trees
Shaking the Trees is a raw and compelling novel about moral courage, inner turmoil, and the weight of trying to save a dying planet. It follows Jake, an environmental activist, who is pushed to sabotage a coal rail line in a desperate act of protest. The story unfolds through Jake’s psychological descent, torn between love and revolution, and is narrated alongside the perspective of his dead great uncle, whose memories of war echo Jake’s own struggle. The book dives into themes of fear, hopelessness, resistance, and love that is deeply personal and political at the same time.
I was floored by the emotional honesty of this book. It’s not clean or easy or heroic in the usual way. The writing grabs you by the collar and pulls you through Jake’s mess of thoughts. His anger, his guilt, his love for Julie, and his bone-deep exhaustion with the state of the world. The style feels like a quiet storm. Sharp, poetic, broken in all the right places. Sometimes the language is jagged. Sometimes it flows like music. There are no simple answers here, and the writing makes you sit with the discomfort. I admired how brave it was.
The ideas in this thing are brutal. It’s about climate catastrophe, sure, but more than that, it’s about how humans lie to themselves to stay comfortable. It made me angry in a way I didn’t expect. Not righteous rage, but this cold, rattling kind of grief. I could feel Jake’s frustration. The protests that don’t work, the submissions no one reads, the same battles fought over and over. And the people around him, well-meaning and stuck. It hit hard. The author doesn’t romanticize activism. He shows what it costs you. How it tears up your insides. And still, you keep going. Or you don’t. That’s the ache at the heart of it.
This book is for anyone who’s ever felt helpless about the state of the world. It’s for activists. It’s for idealists who are starting to crack. It’s also for people who love someone who’s drowning in purpose. The story is haunting, personal, and painfully relevant. If you’ve got a soft spot for stories about inner conflict and quiet rebellion, read this. But be warned: it doesn’t let you off easy. It makes you feel everything. And it’s worth it.
Pages: 380 | ASIN : B0FJVR3V7L
Prophets of War
Prophets Of War follows Alex, a young financial advisor who stumbles onto a horrifying truth: his own father has created a shadowy business empire that bankrolls Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. What begins as a Wall Street career quickly spirals into a nightmare of offshore shell companies, secret deals in Tortola, oligarchs with bottomless bank accounts, and a sprawling conspiracy called the “Business of War.” The story stretches across years, peeling back layers of betrayal, greed, and the way capital can be twisted into a weapon. It is a thriller about money and morality, but also about family, ambition, and the unbearable weight of knowing too much.
Reading it was both exciting and unsettling. I found myself drawn to the writing in a way that made it difficult to put down. Jack Brown’s prose is sharp, direct, almost conversational, and it has this raw energy that carries you forward. The emotions are messy and real. The narrator swears, second-guesses, and drinks too much, and it all makes him feel believable. Still, the style can be over the top, even exhausting, with its constant intensity, but that relentlessness matches the chaos of the world he’s describing.
The central concept that war itself can be commodified, that it thrives not on ideology but on profit, is chilling because it feels close to the truth. The book doesn’t come across as a lecture, though. It’s more like watching someone wake up to a nightmare and realizing you’re in it too. There were points where I laughed bitterly, other times where my chest tightened with dread. And then there’s the father-son dynamic, which added a gut-punch of personal betrayal on top of the political corruption. That made the story hit even harder for me, because it wasn’t just about governments or faceless corporations, it was about blood ties and the price of silence.
By the time I finished, I felt both drained and oddly hopeful. Drained because the world it paints is so dark. Prophets Of War is best for readers who like fast-paced thrillers that are unafraid to mix politics with personal stakes. People who enjoy the works of John le Carré or Robert Ludlum but want something grittier and more contemporary will likely appreciate this story.
Pages: 174 | ASIN : B0FL2YB474
Dead Stars Shine Brightest: A Reckoning in Uvalde, Texas
Sean Dempsey’s Dead Stars Shine Brightest: A Reckoning in Uvalde, Texas is a raw and emotionally intense novel that follows the fractured life of Derek Jackson, a broken veteran and struggling father, as he navigates grief, guilt, and growing dread in a small Texas town. Set against the real-life backdrop of the Uvalde school shooting, the story blends fiction with visceral social commentary. Told in two parts, the narrative first centers on Derek and his estranged daughter, Jade, then transitions into Jade’s perspective as the legal system and local authorities fail them in harrowing, all-too-real ways. Their shared journey, punctuated by violence, redemption, and a desperate need for justice, feels urgent and personal.
The writing is gritty and unapologetic, with Derek’s voice sounding like someone you might overhear at a bar right before he breaks into tears or a fight. Dempsey doesn’t excuse a single thing. This story aches with sadness and rages against everything from school bureaucracy to systemic cowardice. I was especially struck by how well the narrative captured the complicated love between Derek and Jade. Their bond is messy, but it’s real, and their slow road back to each other was one of the few hopeful threads in a book steeped in loss and despair. That said, the prose does lean on dramatic metaphors at times, but the emotional weight behind them always hits home.
The ideas in this book–justice, fatherhood, institutional failure, and community apathy–are yanked into the light and made to bleed. Some of the courtroom and legal scenes veer into a kind of moral theater compared to the messy truth of earlier chapters. But the real world doesn’t deliver justice cleanly. Dempsey clearly has a bone to pick with the way things are, and his anger pulses through every page.
I’d recommend Dead Stars Shine Brightest to anyone who isn’t afraid to sit in the uncomfortable. This book is not for the faint of heart or the politically squeamish. But if you want something that’ll grab you and then quietly pat your shoulder afterward, this is it. It’s for veterans, for fathers, for survivors, for anyone who’s ever been told to sit down and stay quiet while the system rolls on.
Pages: 178 | ASIN : B0F861W91V
LITERARY TITAN 