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Mystery fiction: A disappearance. A question. A clue. This is a lyrical exploration of one woman's need to discover the truth. Set in midcentury Northern California and Southern Italy, we take a ride we'll not soon forget.
Biographical fiction: No one has ever seen anything quite like Ori Lightning—or heard the stories he tells of a tattoo shop that rocked the Netherlands in the 1980s. He takes us on a ride of a lifetime, which also changes course as he recognizes there are bigger forces at play. This spiritual journey will blow your hair back.
Fun spy fiction: Ever wonder what happens when an expert 20th-century-women-spy-researcher has a glass of wine—and makes up the character she wishes she'd met in real life?The second of two books in Marcia Mitchell's fiction series—vetted by real FBI agents!—and featuring FBI agent and foodie Maggie Sachet.
An international novel—a "techno-thriller" that takes us around the world and to the edge. This book is an important link to a daring media franchise set to take the world by storm.
A real-world, seemingly impossible endeavor —the rock sculpture called Crazy Horse Memorial, which will be the largest such creation in the world. We go behind the scenes with the only person who can tell the story, someone who knows the family, the legacy, and the hardship. Get ready to be inspired.
Beyond the Bridge
Concerning the Man Who Vanished
A Novel
Marcia Mitchell
Publication Date January 12, 2027
In the summer of 1959, Sam Stanton, co-owner of one of the Santa Clara Valley’s most successful fruit-growing processors, either did or did not jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. Either way, his car is found abandoned on the bridge. At first, the possibility of an elaborate kidnapping scheme seems likely. After all, he’s worth millions—and why would a man who has everything willingly take his own life? But neither his wife, Carolyn, nor the company receives a ransom demand. And no body washes ashore. After a time, with no evidence to suggest otherwise, the court declares Sam legally deceased. Insurance claims are paid.
Despite an onslaught of frustrating crank calls reporting sightings of Sam in one corner of the world or another, Carolyn secretly maintains hope that he will be found alive. Finally, she receives a believable tip from friends living in Naples, Italy. Unable to resist, Carolyn begins a search that takes her on a wild, sometimes frightening chase—to rescue her childhood sweetheart and the father of her young children. What she finds will break your heart.
This story was inspired by a real case of a real family—and a real woman who received a believable report of her missing husband. Author Marcia Mitchell explores what might have happened if that woman had gone looking, in her favorite real-life setting, mid-century Italy.
Publisher: Rocndog Books, an imprint of Rockin' Dog Studio, LLC
Distributor: Lakeside Book Company
Publication Date: Spring 2027
Language: English
Page Count: (to come)
Paperback ISBN: 9781968518080
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 in.
BISAC: FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce; FICTION / Women; FICTION / Literary
Alchemy of the Dragon Heart
A Tattooer's Road to Redemption
Biographical Fiction
Ori Ana Lightning
In real life, celebrated Dutch tattooer Greg Orie—writing as Ori Ana Lightning—has gone where few dare to travel. He invites us along for the ride through a lyrical signature prose, where we’re “chatting after a good day of slinging ink, philosophizing in Tattoo Tongue about needle groupings, spring tension, voltage, and the deeper meanings of life.”
In the first section of the book, he takes you deep—first incarcerated at age seventeen—into a life of bar fights, alcohol, rock ‘n’ roll, chaotic relationships. He teaches the art, study, and culture of tattoo, along with the inalienable rules and the language of men. These are the years he calls “unhealed.” In the second section, he’s met Jesus and he’s got one foot in the old life and one in the new. He’s experimenting with love—with a capital “L”—and what it means to be a human on the planet. He wonders about his role as a parent, and his role as a partner. These are the years he calls “healing.”
And then he looks directly into the fire, realizing that personal redemption is possible, but only with authentic change. He learns to speak honestly, find his vulnerability, put down his weapons. He talks about god. For Ori, turning the corner into “healed” is a road that never ends. Join him on this gritty adventure and spiritual journey. It’s presented as a biographical novel because a fella like this has more freedom of expression when he loses the constraints of fact—and keeps everybody guessing.
Publisher: Rocndog Books, an imprint of Rockin' Dog Studio, LLC
Distributor: Lakeside Book Company
Publication Date: Spring 2027
Language: English
Page Count: (to come)
Paperback ISBN: 9781968518141
Dimensions: (to come)
BISAC: FICTION / Biographical; FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical; FICTION / Urban
Crazy Horse Memorial
The Story & People Behind the Dream
Nonfiction
Frederick G. Tully, MSW
Publication Date April 27, 2027
Meticulously researched, Crazy Horse Memorial: The Story Behind the Dream dives into North America’s Westward Expansion—and brings an unexpected message of enduring hope.
Surviving and interpreting the brutal displacement of indigenous peoples, a Lakota child named Henry Standing Bear set out to change the world. He grew up to lobby in Washington for Native rights—and imagined the largest rock carving in the world. The other half of the Crazy Horse Memorial equation—Korczak Ziolkowski—also was a product of his environment. Orphaned, abused, adopted, and indentured in Boston, he grew strong, stubborn, and very, very talented. Eventually he assisted Gutzon Borglum on Mount Rushmore and also won first prize for stone sculpture at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.
Henry asked Korczak to carve an impossibly huge sculpture to celebrate that “the red man has great heroes, too,” and Korczak said yes. For the first time, we understand the crucial role of Korczak’s first wife, violinist Dorothy Comstock, to his early adulthood and successes—and her support of the monument long after their divorce. She knew as well as anyone that project assistant Ruth Ross was a better fit for Korczak’s new life on the mountain. This inspirational story is one of brotherhood, competition, and deep commitment to a vision that outlasts one’s own existence. It defined Ziolkowski’s life—and Ruth’s, and the lives of their ten children, and their grandchildren after that.
Publisher: Rocndog Books, an imprint of Rockin' Dog Studio, LLC
Global Distributor: Lakeside Book Company
Publication Date: Spring 2027
Language: English
Page Count: (to come)
Hardcover ISBN: 9781968518189
eBook ISBN: 9781968518196
Audiobook ISBN: 9781968518202
Dimensions: 6 x 9 in.
BISAC: ART / American / Native American; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General; HISTORY / Indigenous / Colonial History & Interaction
The Wolf Particle
Techno-Thriller Fiction
Tyler McKenzie
Publication Date May 4, 2027
In this international novel, McKenzie hews a thrilling trail across three continents, one that reminds us how close we came. And how close we might come again. In the aftermath of COVID-19, crack epidemiologist Ilsa Kivi—a former, high-flying CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer—grieves her child, struggles to fund her small Seattle research business, and is looking down the barrel of bankruptcy. The last thing she needs: a cryptic note from a Wuhan scientist, tucked into the day’s stack of past-due notices.
Ilsa isn’t the only Kivi in the business. Her estranged father, Laur, is the top infectious disease expert in the Baltic States. In order to rebuild her life—past and present—Ilsa joins him in her native Estonia. The last thing she expects: two mysterious bodies that have floated onto a Tallinn shoreline. Somehow they are tied to her, and to that Wuhan envelope. To unravel the mystery, she partners with a team led by a FBI special agent and friend; together, they sort through her nightmares, a mysterious connection to a Swedish pharmaceutical billionaire, and a father’s sin. She suddenly finds herself in a race against time. If she does not bring it all into focus—to find the creator of The Wolf Particle—if she makes one false step, then she might take humanity down with her.
Publisher: Rocndog Books, an imprint of Rockin' Dog Studio, LLC
Global Distributor: Lakeside Book Company
Publication Date: Spring 2027
Language: English
Page Count: (to come)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-7352228-7-5
eBook ISBN: 978-1-7352228-8-2
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-7352228-9.9
Dimensions: 6 x 9 in.
BISAC: Fiction / Thrillers / Technological; Fiction / Thrillers / Medical; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Dearly Departed
Second installment in the Maggie Sachet fiction series
Marcia Mitchell
In this second book in a deftly crafted mystery series, Mitchell takes Maggie Sachet from Washington, DC, to Prague, St. Petersburg, and Los Angeles—as she searches for a double agent. Or is this elusive beauty just a Russian-born film star on the run? Or is she already dead? This story, like the others in the series, were vetted for accuracy by Mitchell's FBI advisors—agents who worked on her past real cases and contributed to her research.
Publisher: Rocndog Books, an imprint of Rockin' Dog Studio, LLC
Distributor: (to come)
Publication Date: 2026
Language: English
Page Count: (to come)
Paperback ISBN: (to come)
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 in.
BISAC: (to come)
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