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When outlaw Joe Battle enters a storm-trapped New Orleans saloon in 1888, he believes he's walked into a game of cards. What he's actually entered is an ambush—one involving a fugitive murderer, a bounty hunter in disguise, a buried fortune, and a bartender who has been waiting for him for years.

What would you do if you woke up inside the life you always wanted?Arthur Meyersworth is twenty-seven and stuck—stuck in a mediocre advertising job, stuck in a decaying apartment in Reseda, stuck being perpetually "e;next in line"e; for a promotion that never comes. Once a promising DJ, now a cubicle fixture and break-room regular, Arthur copes the way he always has: too much alcohol, late-night television, and the quiet hope that tomorrow might feel different.Then he wakes up in the Hollywood Hills.Arthur is suddenly rich, famous, and successful. The career he dreamed about is real. The house is immaculate. The city opens its doors to him without hesitation. He's become the version of himself he always believed he was supposed to be.But something is wrong.The woman in his bed looks at him like a stranger. Conversations feel rehearsed. Certain memories don't belong to him. And beneath the surface of this perfect upgrade is a question Arthur can't escape:If he's here… where did the other version of him go?As Arthur settles into his dream reality, he begins to sense that this life wasn't created for him—it was inherited. And the more comfortable he becomes, the clearer it is that success hasn't fixed what was broken. It's only made the emptiness quieter, cleaner, and harder to name.Switch is a darkly comic, psychologically unsettling novella about ambition, identity, and the quiet horror of getting exactly what you asked for—only to realize the cost may never stop being collected.

A former middleweight disappears into Marrow's Point—a borough that isn't on most maps—and descends into an underground fight circuit run by a wealthy, eccentric impresario. The plan is simple: win, climb, and rob him blind.But someone keeps calling.Same blocked number. Every day.He doesn't answer.The fights get worse.The borough stops making sense.Time skips.The phone keeps ringing.By the time he picks up, he's not sure what he's been running toward—or what he's been running from.From the author of Made in America and The Bastard of Taylor's End comes a tense, psychological vignette about guilt, control, and the cages we build to avoid what matters most.

In a city where dreams are currency and souls are collateral, Marcus Graves was supposed to be a lawyer. Instead, he's L.A.'s most coveted high-ticket cocaine courier and a Mexican cartel's golden boy, servicing Hollywood's elite with chemical courage and temporary salvation.But when his volatile partner, the tortured and impulsive Buddy, loses $168,000 worth of cartel product, Marcus is given a deadline: recover the stash by sunrise… or become another forgotten headline in the City of Angels.What follows is a nightlong descent through the underworld that made him: crooked club owners, off-kilter trust-fund freaks, cartel triggermen, and an old friend who knew him before his client list resembled a Deadline article and the product came shrink-wrapped.Every deal, every betrayal, every second counts.As the hours burn and the noose tightens, Marcus is forced to confront what he's really running from—and if there's anything left in him worth saving.

VIOLENT CRIMES 2: BLACK BUTTERFLY — COMING 10.31.26Preorder now on Kindle.The Saturday before Thanksgiving, eighteen-year-old former valedictorian Evelyn Armstrong comes home from her freshman year at Virginia to her small, moneyed hometown of Bronxville, New York. By Tuesday morning, she is found in the woods of Twin Lakes with her throat cut and her body broken.Two men go looking for whoever did it. Neither one is built to stop.James Prince is the son of an FBI legend and a profiler of extraordinary, almost clairvoyant instinct who arrives from Manhattan with a divorce in his rearview, a young daughter he adores, and a drinking problem he pretends is managed. He is brilliant and self-destructive in equal measure, and Bronxville will test the limits of both.Richard Armstrong is a decorated Navy SEAL and Evelyn's father, a man whose capacity for violence was once sanctioned by his country and is now answerable to nothing but grief. While Prince builds a case, Richard dismantles the town, moving through its manicured streets with the quiet, systematic lethality of a man who has already decided how this ends.As a historic blizzard closes in and the body count climbs, these lives collide in a violent reckoning with grief, evil, and the terrible things good men become when the world takes what they love most.The debut novel by Jack Chase. First released Memorial Day, 2025.

From Jack Chase, author of Made in America and one of the defining new voices in American fiction, comes one of his earliest and most haunting works.Nick Demming has worn the badge for thirty-two years. On his final day with the SFPD, he's forced to confront everything he's lost along the way—his family, his purpose, and maybe his soul.As he patrols the city's fog-bound streets one last time, Nick faces down violent criminals, broken systems, and the ghosts of his own past. But what he doesn't expect are the small moments—of connection, of reckoning, of fleeting grace—that might offer him a sliver of redemption.Beat Cop is a stark, elegiac vignette that captures the weary poetry of a city and the men who try to hold it together. One of the first stories published by the creator of Made in America, it reveals the earliest glimpses of Chase's style—lyrical, cinematic, and extraordinarily human.

Billy Castle is twenty-five years old, commuting from Queens to Manhattan to serve drinks to uptowners, keep his alcoholic mother afloat, and outrun the reputation of a father whose name still echoes through certain corners of the city—whose ostensibly random murder in a liquor store by an unknown shooter when Billy was a child left behind nothing but a name that carries weight in all the places Billy has spent his whole life avoiding.On his first week working at the Palace, one of Manhattan's most exclusive nightclubs, Billy witnesses the execution of an Italian capo in the loading dock after being sent down to retrieve a crate of booze. Instead of silencing him on the spot, the club's untouchable owner—who moonlights as the city's most feared contrabandist—Archer Stone, gives him a moment to make his case. The air changes when he hears Billy's last name, and from that moment on, Billy's life begins to follow a path he swore he'd never take—and one he never expected to be so intoxicating.Forced into the role of accomplice, the novel's five-act structure follows Billy's ascent through a world of ambition, loyalty, and violence, where power moves quietly and nothing stays buried. Meanwhile, federal agent Dean Willis is hunting Archer Stone, chasing fragments of a past he can't fully remember—one that may tie all three men together in ways none of them can imagine, and potentially reveal the devastating truth behind his missing wife and daughter.Touted by readers as "e;a triumph in crime fiction"e; and "e;impossible to put down,"e; Made in America delivers as a literary crime epic about inheritance, power, and the machinery of the American dream.

Francesca "e;Frankie"e; Walsh is thirty-two, brilliant, and barely holding it together in New York's underground comedy circuit.When a terminal brain tumor gives her three months, she stops pretending to plan for a future and starts workshopping the bit.Then she meets Paul Hayes, a once-promising lounge singer with late-stage Parkinson's who can't play guitar anymore but still sings like the world is listening. What starts as an unlikely friendship becomes something heavier, stranger, and inevitably devastating as the clock rapidly runs out on them both.From Jack Chase, author of Made in America, Jokes About Suicide is a sharp, intimate story about timing, company, and the people we find right before the dark.