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Book One of A Dead Girl's Revenge, a seven-book supernatural series

by Noel Brown

Astrid Lark Calloway was twenty-one, an investigative researcher with a way out of her shuttered Hudson Valley plant town almost in reach. A paid weekend media job on the ridge road ended that. She was assaulted and killed on September 21, 2024, and then she woke up dead.

Earthbound, with no body anyone can see, she finds the one thing still available to her. She can be felt. Fear, aimed carefully, moves through a room and moves the people in it. It is leverage. And she uses it: first by accident, then on purpose.

Detective Greer works her murder the human way – through permits, building amendments, a broken recorder, and a phone that still has something to say. Astrid investigates her own death from the other side of it, and learns the rule that will govern everything after: power is not free. It is accounted.

A Dead Girl's Revenge is Book One of a seven-book supernatural series, set in Amity Hollow, Hudson Valley. No chosen ones. No easy hauntings. A dead girl, a small town, and a ledger that has only just opened.

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The Dog King

A standalone novel

by Noel Brown

On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a dog named Laika into orbit aboard Sputnik 2. She became the first living creature to circle the Earth. The official record says she died within hours. The official record is incomplete.

Laika found the corridor. What came through the other side was still her.

Decades on, she presides over Laikagrad: a hidden hall and archive at the margin of documented history, staffed by dogs who were pulled from the record and placed somewhere safer, or stranger. They maintain the archive. They run the dampening systems that keep their existence below any threshold of detection. They listen. Laika still carries the frequency she first broadcast in 1957, the same wave Sputnik carried into the cold dark.

The Dog King moves through three threads: autumn 1972, a classified mission in March 1973, and a long reckoning that begins in 2008. Each thread presses on the same questions. What does loyalty look like across decades of concealment? What does it cost to keep a secret that was never yours alone to keep?

The cast includes Nose, who writes the configurations that hold the Hall hidden; Bramble, a long resident who carries memory the newer arrivals do not have; Masha; and Jack, the only human who has held this work since 1973.

Literary, melancholy, and built on the bones of genuine history, The Dog King is a novel about what history discards and what refuses to be discarded, about hidden lives lived in service, and about the strange stubbornness of a signal that should have gone silent long ago.

At 53,000 words, it is a complete, standalone science fiction novel.

The Archive is still transmitting.