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Some doors should never be opened. Scott Dawson's family just inherited a house full of them.Six months ago, Holly Dawson vanished. Her husband Scott still doesn't know if she's dead, or if she left because of what he did.His business is gone. The foreclosure notice could come any day. Their son Hudson gets angrier by the week. Their daughter Hazel swears she still hears her mother's voice.Then a lawyer in a silk suit shows up in the driveway.Holly had family she never mentioned. Her late uncle, Alastair Galloway, has left everything to her children: Galloway Manor, a sprawling estate on the Oregon coast, and a million dollars for every year they live there.There are rules. One of the children must stay on the grounds at all times. Break a single one, and they lose it all.Hazel doesn't want to go inside. She's already seen the girl watching from the upstairs window. A girl died in that house twenty-nine years ago.The Dawsons came to Galloway Manor to start over. Something inside has been waiting for them much longer than that.Threshold is a gothic supernatural thriller from Sean Platt and David W. Wright, bestselling authors of Yesterday's Gone.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF YESTERDAY'S GONE AND WHITESPACE COMES A NEW THRILLER — 12.At 6 p.m. on a Wednesday in October, a gunman will enter Goldman's Diner and commit one of the worst massacres the small coastal town of Palm Isles, Florida has ever seen. Twelve hours earlier: twelve lives are on borrowed time, unaware that death is coming, or that their paths will collide in one tragic moment.A young waitress and mother fights to protect her daughter from her violent estranged husband. Little does she know that a greater threat looms under her nose.A cop is forced to decide between his job and his marriage.A bullied teen with an abusive father is down to one friend when his world suddenly crumbles around him.An old man struggles to hold onto his memories and do one last thing to honor his wife. But in doing so, he will have to reveal his darkest secret.A cook with a shady past attempts to stay on the straight and narrow, until he gets a call which forces him to choose — his family or his honor?TWELVE HOURSTWELVE LIVESWHO LIVES?WHO DIES?

Build a publishing business that compounds — without the luck, the hype, or the gold rush.You've read Write. Publish. Repeat. You know the foundation: write the next one, publish the next one, do it again.Iterate and Optimize is what comes next.Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant, and David Wright didn't grow Sterling & Stone into eight imprints, ten podcasts, and millions of words published by swinging for the fences. They got there by iterating — making small, deliberate improvements over the years that compounded into a business that mostly runs itself.This is the playbook for doing the same with yours.Inside, you'll learn how to optimize:Distribution strategy — exclusive vs. wide, and when to switchAdvertising and marketing — the spend that pays for itself and the spend that burns moneyConversion levers — covers, descriptions, and metadata that actually move salesOutsourcing and team-building — how to hire slowly without losing the thing that made you successfulProduct funnels — including the changed role of free books for indie authors todayWorkflow and systems — what to automate, what to keep hands-on, what to delegateThe writing process itself — pre-writing, drafting, and revising faster without sacrificing qualityIf you've already read every "e;self-publishing 101"e; guide on the market and you're ready for the level above it, written by people who've actually built the business at scale, this is your guide.No silver bullets. No magic buttons. Just the small, sustainable improvements that compound into something real.Includes a free companion workbook with exercises and worksheets to apply each chapter to your own publishing business.Ready to get serious about the business behind the books? Iterate and Optimize.