Overtime
The Ballad of Marcus Graves
“Welcome to the real Sin City.”
Published
April 21, 2025
Format
Novella, 167 pages
Imprint
Abbycat Black
Author
Jack Chase
Marcus Graves is a 24-year-old drug dealer for the rich and famous.
In a city where dreams are currency and souls are collateral, Marcus was supposed to be a lawyer. Instead, he’s L.A.’s most coveted high-ticket cocaine courier and a Mexican cartel’s golden boy—servicing Hollywood’s elite with chemical courage and temporary salvation.
But when his volatile partner, the tortured and impulsive Buddy, loses $168,000 worth of cartel product on a drunken night out in the city, Marcus is given a deal: recover or match the lost stash by sunrise, or become another forgotten headline in the City of Angels.
What follows is a nightlong descent through the underworld that made him: sociopathic club owners, off-kilter trust fund freaks, cartel triggermen, and an old friend who knew him before his client list resembled a Deadline article and the product came shrink-wrapped.
Violent Crimes
The Butcher of Westchester
“He’s just a face in the crowd.”
Published
May 26, 2025
Format
Novel, 300 pages
Imprint
Abbycat Black
Author
Jack Chase
In the secluded enclave of Bronxville, eighteen-year-old Evelyn Armstrong is found brutalized in the woods, her death exposing the fractures beneath a community’s carefully tended facade.
FBI profiler James Prince arrives from Manhattan carrying wreckage of his own: a marriage consumed by obsession, a career built on proximity to evil, and the growing suspicion he may be no different from those he hunts. From a decaying lodge on the outskirts of town, he follows a thread of evidence that begins to feel more and more meant for him alone.
Meanwhile, Richard Armstrong, decorated Navy SEAL and grieving father, slips from public view. What returns in his place moves through Bronxville’s manicured streets with lethal purpose, erasing anyone who might have been involved.
As a historic blizzard closes in and the body count rises, Prince and Armstrong find themselves converging on a truth neither wants to face: that some reckonings transcend law and order, that evil often wears familiar faces, and that the line between hunter and hunted dissolves when you stare too long into the abyss.