Coming Soon: Injustice for the living. A reckoning for the dead. A bitter payment is overdue..
In the storm-battered New Mexico town of Benedición, three strangers discover that survival is not a matter of innocence — but of endurance. An unnatural storm has swallowed the settlement whole. Floodwaters are rising. Escape routes are gone. And the law — what’s left of it — has revealed its ugliest face.
Eli Mercer is only passing through. He’s a man with a violent past and a new, unwanted gift: he can see the dead. He intends to stay just long enough to dry out. Dr. Eleanor Carrow intends to save the man they’re about to execute. Don Santiago de Álvarez intends to survive — though he isn’t certain he deserves to.
When the three are forced together inside Eleanor’s besieged infirmary, the danger is more than human. Something dark and ancient has been watching Benedición for a long time. And beneath the floodwaters, beneath the mob, beneath the violence of a community eating itself alive — a bitter payment is coming due.
A Reckoning in Mercy blends classic frontier realism with supernatural dread — where the past is never truly forgiven, justice is never guaranteed, and the dead have been keeping score.
Perfect for readers of Dark Winds, Longmire, and Yellowstone — and for fans of atmospheric ghost stories, historical horror, and dark paranormal fiction where the land itself demands payment.
Available Julye 1, 2026 – The Colorado Plateau is no place for the living.


It’s All Here!
UFO Mystery? Alien Cover-up? Cowboy detective Jack de Sombras scoffs at it all—he’s too busy running the Praetorius Agency. But when a dead woman and mummified extraterrestrials appear, he and his clairvoyant partner, Tessa Lancing, are plunged into a case that feels straight out of an X-Files episode. This is a supernatural thriller series that blends a murder mystery with witty banter and a deepening government conspiracy…
How did it all begin? Ghosts, Serial Killers, a Resurrection Cult—all the cases that brought Jack and Tessa to the brink. Cases no one else would touch. Forget the usual Vampires, Zombies, and Werewolves, the Praetorius Agency only investigates the strangest …
The Praetorius Agency Files 1-3 Digital Set and The UFO Gambit (newly released File #4.)

The Lou Tanner Dieselpunk Mysteries
“A bold, new take on the hard-boiled detective, femme fatale, and art deco science fiction.“
“…delivers unpredictable turns and a full-bodied cast of memorable allies & savage villains…”
—The Prairies Book Review

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