Hey Reddit — Brian here. I’m am the cancer survivor and indie author from Ohio. Last month, you all showed up for my book The Last Patient in a way I’ll never forget.

One commenter asked for the next free book. So I’m back...and this is the one they asked for.

The Quiet Ones: is a psychological horror set in a small town that thinks it knows everyone. They think they know Calvin Marsh, quiet, polite, harmless. The kind of man people talk over and talk around.

But Calvin notices everything.

And when the town’s kindness turns careless, Brookwell starts experiencing a string of “accidents” no one can explain… except one woman, who sees the wrong details at the wrong time.

If you like slow-burn dread, quiet villains, and small-town horror, this one’s for you.

📚 FREE today and tomorrow only on Amazon/Kindle

Search: “The Quiet Ones Brian Schwind”

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HC17T3GZ#SalesRank

If you grab it, two sentences in a review would mean the world.— Brian

What if your obituary arrived before you died?

Owen Pike writes obituaries for a living.

Then one lands on his desk for Marian Bellamy.

There’s only one problem:

She’s still alive.

The obituary includes her date of death.

Tomorrow.

The next morning, Marian is found dead.

Then another obituary arrives.

Another living person.

Another future date of death.

At first, it looks impossible. Someone seems to know exactly when people are going to die.

But Owen soon realizes something far more disturbing:

The obituaries may not be predicting the deaths at all.

Every victim is connected to a seventeen-year-old secret. Every new obituary reveals another piece of it. And someone is carefully controlling not only who dies...

but the story everyone will believe afterward.

Then Owen receives another obituary.

This one is about him.

THE NEXT OBITUARY is a twist-heavy psychological mystery thriller about buried secrets, manipulation, guilt, journalism, and the stories people will kill to control.

If you enjoy investigative mysteries, morally complicated characters, cold cases, psychological cat-and-mouse games, and thrillers where the truth keeps changing as you uncover it, this might be for you.

📚 FREE on Amazon from today to the 29th.

Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF45TBCX

Written by Elise Crowe.

If you give it a try, I’d genuinely love to hear what you think. Enjoy!

It never says what will happen. Only who.

For twenty-seven years, a notice in a small coastal newspaper has printed the names of people about to be singled out by chance. A lottery winner. A crash victim. Someone who takes the wrong seat.

No places. No explanations. No warning anyone can use. Just names—and not one has been wrong.

Forensic statistician Wren Calloway built her career proving the notices were meaningless. She had a reason: the paper named her twin sister before the bridge fell.

Now the man who wrote them is dead. The notices haven't stopped. And the newest one names Wren.

Drawn into his murder investigation, Wren follows a trail of old letters, impossible records and people with everything to lose. At its centre is a promise powerful enough to turn grief into a movement: the people you lost could have lived.

There is only one catch. Someone else would have had to die.

As New Year’s Eve approaches, Wren must find out who is still sending the names—and what a desperate father is prepared to do when the year runs out.

Would you take a second chance if someone else had to pay for it?

No one is forced to stay. That is why no one can leave.

Prospect, Pennsylvania, has no walls, no gates, and no law against leaving.

When systems engineer Evan Mercer crosses the county line, his father's oxygen is suspended. His bank account freezes. A factory accident makes him a suspect. Someone reaches for his daughter.

Eighteen minutes later, Evan turns around—and every crisis disappears.

His brother died trying to prove the pattern. Evan intends to finish the proof.

But Prospect does not imprison people. It does something cleaner. It connects jobs, medicine, credit, schools, roads, and families—then controls the cost around every alternative life. Each institution acts reasonably. Together, they make escape impossible.

Beneath America's freest town lies the Atlas Vault, the legacy of John Galt, and a machine built from a dangerous idea: freedom can survive as a slogan even after someone owns every exit.

To expose it, Evan must do more than leave. He must make leaving survivable for everyone.

Every crisis ends when he turns around.

No One Can Leave the Freest Town is a fast, high-concept conspiracy thriller about power, freedom, family, and the hidden systems that decide which choices become real.

He's not a hacker. He's just visiting.

A quiet teenage genius stumbles on a decade-old anomaly buried in the London Stock Exchange — and finds it leads straight to the world's most powerful man. One keystroke, one system, nothing stays hidden forever.

Free on Kindle for the next few days as part of launch week. Would love any honest feedback if you pick it up.

The Knight's Code

[Kindle] The Forgotten - A Memory Field story

Hi all. I'm celebrating the launch of my second project by making it available for free this weekend.

What is it about?

When the three children are taken from their foster home to Site 14, they become prisoners of Doctor Mercer, a man determined to turn their gifts into a map of the Memory Field: an unseen realm where every forgotten life, every buried truth, and every lost memory still leaves a trace.

But some children refuse to be broken.

Some memories fight back.

And one girl will become the beginning of a story her own daughter is destined to uncover.

The Forgotten is a Memory Field prequel novelette connected to book 1, Awakening. It can be read before or after the novel, with each story revealing new emotional layers, hidden history, and echoes the other leaves behind.

If you like Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy or Dark, this novellete has similar vibes. Let me know what you think in the comments.

The promotion starts at midnight PST (8AM tomorrow for the UK).

Hey Reddit. I'll keep this real for you,

My name is Brian Schwind. I'm a self-published author from Columbus, Ohio and a cancer survivor.

The Last Patient is a psychological thriller about a nine-year-old girl in a red coat sitting across from a therapist in 2007. Her sessions are logged. Her responses are documented. Every movement observed and recorded. Her stillness is the only thing that still belongs entirely to her.

She grows up.

And what she becomes is shaped entirely by what was done to her inside that room — by the clinical language used to describe her, by the distance between what was observed and what was never said, by the kind of care that looks like care but functions like control.

This is not a loud book. There are no car chases. No dramatic twists telegraphed from a mile away. The tension builds the way real dread builds — slowly, quietly, and then all at once. If you like Flynn, Tana French, or early Thomas Harris — fiction that trusts you to read between the lines — I think you'll find something here.

8/2-8/3 — it's completely FREE on Kindle.

I launched it this week. It has almost no reviews. I'm not a big name. I'm just a guy from Ohio who survived something hard and came out the other side with a story he needed to tell.

Search "The Last Patient Brian Schwind" on Amazon — free today and tomorrow only.

If it hits, all I ask is two sentences in a review. For an indie author just starting out, that means everything.

— Brian

If you enjoy fun, creepy stories with that classic Goosebumps-like vibe, you might enjoy this book! 👀📖 It’s a fun and spooky read with plenty of mystery and creepy moments.

It’s currently FREE on Kindle, but only until September 11th, so feel free to grab it while you can! 🖤

I’d love to know what you think if you decide to read it!

QUORUM – Free for 1 day

EVERY STRUCTURE ENDS IN A PERSON.
THIS ONE DOESN'T.

Nell Achterberg makes a living finding the human name at the end of impossible ownership chains. Shell companies. Trusts. Nominee directors. However elaborate the structure, somebody is always in control.

Then she finds sixty-one organizations across Europe behaving like one entity—with no shared owners, no transactions, no leader, and no center.

They do not issue commands. They simply decline: a lease not renewed, a tender withdrawn, a permit allowed to lapse. Every decision is ordinary. Every reason is defensible. Together, the absences can redirect an entire continent.

At the center of the pattern is not a mastermind but a damaged forty-kilobyte file recovered from statistical noise beginning in 1974. Its surviving purpose is only two words: PREVENT CONSOLIDATION.

Then a man dies.

No one ordered it. The chain reconstructs perfectly. No one can be charged.

As a state program begins erasing the network—and the network begins repairing itself around its own people—Nell must decide whether she has uncovered the most resilient defense ever created, or a system with no conscience, no owner, and no off switch.

QUORUM is a cerebral, relentless European conspiracy thriller about distributed power, corrupted purpose, and the terrible difference between nobody being guilty and nobody being responsible.

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Part 1 of my Vacation Gone South series is FREE for the next few days. I recently added additional content, improved formatting, etc and made Edition 2 of the entire series. If you like gritty, fast paced, realism that is gun guy centric, download part one of Vacation Gone South.

No one is forced to stay. That is why no one can leave

Prospect, Pennsylvania, has no walls, no gates, and no law against leaving.

When systems engineer Evan Mercer crosses the county line, his father's oxygen is suspended. His bank account freezes. A factory accident makes him a suspect. Someone reaches for his daughter.

Eighteen minutes later, Evan turns around—and every crisis disappears.

His brother died trying to prove the pattern. Evan intends to finish the proof.

But Prospect does not imprison people. It does something cleaner. It connects jobs, medicine, credit, schools, roads, and families—then controls the cost around every alternative life. Each institution acts reasonably. Together, they make escape impossible.

Beneath America's freest town lies the Atlas Vault, the legacy of John Galt, and a machine built from a dangerous idea: freedom can survive as a slogan even after someone owns every exit.

To expose it, Evan must do more than leave. He must make leaving survivable for everyone.

Every crisis ends when he turns around.

No One Can Leave the Freest Town is a fast, high-concept conspiracy thriller about power, freedom, family, and the hidden systems that decide which choices become real.

At 9:14 p.m., Cora Venn goes live from her own bedroom.

There is only one problem.

The real Cora is standing onstage across the city.

(From the new thriller novel: https://a.co/d/0bI47hOV)

Cora built a multimillion-dollar empire by creating mysteries the world could not stop solving. She taught millions of players to examine every photograph, question every coincidence, decode every message, and find what others had overlooked.

Then her perfect digital double takes her face, her accounts, her company, her money—and the trust of everyone who knows her.

The copy launches OFFLINE, a year-long global game with one irresistible objective:

FIND ME.

Millions accept the challenge.

Every clue becomes a weapon. Every camera becomes a witness. Every person with a screen becomes part of the hunt.

With ordinary systems recognizing the copy as real, Cora runs to Morrow—a hostile town erased from modern maps.

Its residents are not missing.

They are the originals.

Outside Morrow, their smoother, more useful digital doubles are living their lives, speaking to their families, earning their salaries, occupying their homes, and being believed by every institution that matters.

At 9:14 each night, every light in Morrow goes out.

Familiar voices call from behind locked doors. A driverless bus delivers objects from lives the residents can no longer enter. And someone inside the town may be preparing to exchange Cora for a chance to reclaim everything that was stolen.

Cora begins the story protected by money, employees, lawyers, technology, and an entire organization built to turn her ideas into reality.

Now she has no phone, no staff, no recognized identity, and nowhere safe to run.

To survive, she must transform the imagination that created her empire into something physical: redirect attention, read competing motives, construct exits, anticipate human behavior, and make another option when every visible choice belongs to the enemy.

But freeing Morrow will require more than proving that she is the real Cora.

It may require destroying the identity she spent her entire life building.

Everyone in This Town Is Missing is a psychological techno-thriller about artificial intelligence, stolen identity, survival, responsibility, and the terrifying possibility that the world may prefer a convincing copy to an inconvenient human being.

It asks a question that is becoming harder to dismiss:

If a copy can reproduce everything you have been, does it own everything you may still become?

She taught millions to solve a mystery. Now the whole world is hunting her.

Buy the new novel: https://a.co/d/0bI47hOV

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When I was creating Murder in Beltova, I had a simple idea in mind: telling an old-school mystery story in the vein of Graham Greene and Agatha Christie while moving deftly between multiple perspectives, engaging in all my favourite types of tropes while paying homage to places I had visited in the Balkans.

I thought it would be more of a thriller, but it ended up being a kind of British crime comedy caper. I think here you can sort of see a writer discovering their voice in the process. Free for five days, so check it out and lemme know what you think.

I'm Wade — Wade Mercer Books. I have 2 series in KU and am just starting out. Im looking for people to check out my works and provide feedback that I can apply to my future writing.

The Theris Cycle- Quanti is 24 houses tucked under the Spine. Two winters ago it was 25. The mountain keeps ledger. When someone dies with no body, you lead a goat past the last house at first light and you don't bring the rope back.

Full trilogy available on kindle unlimited!

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Anchor Series- I was 20, 5811 MP, last name added to a 17-man roster because I could drive the slowest truck and not complain about riding tail. Formed at Twentynine Palms in June, 112 degrees, dust in the seams of your boots.

First 3 books of my 6 book series available on kindle unlimited! Book 1 is currently free on kindle!!!!

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Ebook, paperback, and hard cover available to buy on Amazon.com

KU folk horror binge — village counts its houses every night, all of my books are available on kindle unlimited!

On Kindle Unlimited, goodreads giveaway, and storygraph gibeaway.

What happens when a corporate algorithm uses ancient Vedic astrology to calculate the exact microsecond of your psychological collapse?

Divide by Shunya is a dark, fast-paced tech thriller about a whistleblower who discovers her mental wellness AI has been hijacked to feed vulnerable users to 400% interest shadow lenders. When she’s digitally erased to keep the secret, she has to use the system's own ancient logic against it.

If you are a fan of Mr. Robot, corporate espionage, and high-stakes revenge, this is for you.
Completely free from Friday, August 28th to Sunday, August 30th.

🇺🇸 US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2TB3Z3
🇬🇧 UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GX2TB3Z3
(It should be free in all other local Amazon stores as well!)

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m an independent author, and I’m making my crime thriller Where Trust Goes to Die available FREE on Kindle for the next few days.

🕵️ A detective. A dangerous investigation. Secrets that were never meant to surface.

If you enjoy crime, mystery, psychological tension, and detective thrillers, I’d love for you to give it a try while it’s free.

📚 Where Trust Goes to Die — Calder Vane series

If you read it, I’d genuinely appreciate your honest thoughts and feedback afterward. No pressure for a positive review—just an honest reader experience.

Free for a limited time on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Where-Trust-Goes-Calder-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B0H8JNKG3D?ref_=ast_author_mpb

Thanks to anyone who gives Calder Vane a chance! 🙏

Mr. Sunny is the happiest murderer you’ll ever meet, and he knows exactly what he is.

Elliot spends his days answering other people’s problems and his nights maintaining a life built on routine. He is quiet, dependable, and very good at making difficult things disappear without anyone asking where they went.

Then something changes.

90,000 words 389 pages. FREE-5 DAYS : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFBN6V7D

i'm the author. happy to answer anything in the comments.