Our Authors
Ten authors, ten promises. Pick a shelf and start reading.
Nathan Case
Nathan Case is the author of the Sherlock Holmes novels of The Sealed Watson Papers and The Meridian Watson Papers — fifteen cases drawn from the investigations Dr. John H. Watson sealed away: too dangerous, too compromising, or too morally unresolved for the Strand. From a Virginia coal town to the Vatican archives, from Calcutta to Samarkand, these are deduction-driven historical mysteries where objects preserve the records powerful people would erase — a glove, a thread, a cameo, a scarab, a vial of blue dust. Holmes finds the facts. Watson preserves the wound.
J.S. Cross
J.S. Cross writes gothic mysteries and noir thrillers where the past never stays buried. The Veiled House mysteries turn English country houses into crime scenes with long memories. Across twenty-two titles, Cross returns to the same obsessions: vanished women, forged identities, and the moment a respectable façade cracks. Dark Americana with a European shadow — elegant, unsparing, and built for readers who like their mysteries with atmosphere you can feel.
A.V. Laurent
A.V. Laurent writes high-concept thrillers about the intersection of art, desire, and deception. The Lazarus Index trilogy — a chess game played in galleries, auction houses, and the black market for stolen masterpieces — made Laurent's name. The Orchid Protocol novels raise the stakes to the international art trade's darkest corners. In standalones, Laurent strips the formula down to two people, one object of desire, and no safe exits. Seven titles, each one engineered like a heist: precise, seductive, and over before you can catch your breath.
A.K. Oxford
A.K. Oxford writes historical novels on the grand scale — from the ziggurats of Gilgamesh's Uruk to the corridors of Machiavelli's Florence. Eighteen titles span four thousand years: empires rising and rotting, poets writing against power, poisoners in silk, and above all the women history tried to forget, restored to the center of their own stories. Oxford's method is total immersion — the food, the coinage, the prayers — in service of characters who feel startlingly modern. For readers who want their history with blood in it.
Arden Solvek
Arden Solvek writes science fiction about the oldest questions asked the newest ways. The Lazarus Sequence — resurrection technology in the hands of people who shouldn't have it — and the Genesis Cycle — first contact as an engineering problem — anchor seven titles about machines, memory, and what makes a mind. Solvek's futures are worked out like proofs but land like parables: rigorous on the science, ruthless on the human cost. For readers who want their speculation with weight.
Sidney Sterling
Sidney Sterling writes the Elena Torretti thrillers — art crime, sacred conspiracies, and Prague gothic. Torretti, a conservator who authenticates paintings and exposes lies, moves through a Europe where every altarpiece hides a ledger and every restoration uncovers a crime. Four titles so far, each built around a real art-historical mystery. Sterling's Prague is a character in itself: beautiful, haunted, and for sale to the highest bidder.
Cameron Clarke
Cameron Clarke writes thrillers about illusion, provenance, and power — who made it, who owns it, and who decides what's real. From a geothermal station in Iceland to Gutenberg's workshop at the dawn of print, three titles turn the history of deception into propulsive contemporary suspense. Clarke's trick is making expertise thrilling: forgers, printers, and confidence artists rendered with an insider's precision.
Maren Solis
Maren Solis writes speculative and literary fiction about time, return, and the charged space between people and machines. Three titles — intimate in scale, vast in implication — follow characters negotiating with versions of themselves they thought they'd left behind. Solis writes the quietest books on the TwainWorks shelf, and possibly the strangest: stories where the speculative element arrives not as spectacle but as recognition.
Colt Morrison
Colt Morrison writes westerns the old way: dust, debt, and decisions that can't be taken back. Redemption Ridge and The Preacher's Fire — two novels, one unforgiving country — follow men and women trying to outrun what they did in the war, the winter, or the wedding. Morrison's West is biblical in its stakes and spare in its telling. Short books that cast long shadows.
Greer Aldrich
Greer Aldrich writes literary fiction about how we look at things — and what looking costs. Beauty / Archive excavates a lifetime of photographs to ask who gets remembered and how. The Weight of Observation turns the act of attention itself into the plot. Two novels of unusual patience and precision: for readers who believe the examined life is the only one worth writing about.