A dead man's warehouse.
A coded ledger.
Objects that remember.

Read Harlan’s Yard, the free prequel to the Handler's Inventory series, a supernatural mystery set in the American Midwest.

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The Handler's Inventory Series

Tom Salk was a paramedic for eighteen years before the work hollowed him out. Now he's running his dead uncle's estate sale business in a small Illinois river town, and discovering that some of the objects in the warehouse carry more than sentimental weight. Some carry danger.

Handler's Inventory is a supernatural mystery series about the ancient things hiding in ordinary places, and the ordinary man who discovers he was meant to find them.

Season 1 · Six Novels

The Complete Series

Available for pre-order · Launching June 15, 2026

Book 1

The Coffer Seal

Book 2

The Finisher’s Grip

Book 3

The Second Hand

Book 4

The Hearth Seal

Book 5

The Waking Collection

Book 6

The Breach

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Free Stories

Two companion stories that expand the world of Handler's Inventory, one for newcomers, one for readers who've finished Book 1.

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Harlan’s Yard

A Handler’s Inventory Prequel · ~9,000 words

Summer, 1984. Twelve-year-old Tom Salk spends a week with his Uncle Harlan in a small Illinois river town, sorting inventory in a warehouse full of other people’s things. One brass candlestick feels different from the rest, warmer, heavier, present in a way he can’t explain. Harlan notices. He doesn’t explain it either.

“It sat in my hand with a seriousness that the other candlesticks hadn’t had, as if it had opinions about being held and was concentrating on them.”

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Mo’s Hands

A Handler’s Inventory Bonus Story · ~6,000 words

You’ve read the dampening scene through Tom’s eyes. Now hear it through Mo’s, the expert on the other end of the phone, listening to a man she trained attempt the most dangerous procedure she’s ever witnessed, with three weeks of practice where her mentor had forty years. A story about skilled hands with nothing to do, fear managed through discipline, and the cost of staying on the line.

“The specific restlessness of skilled hands denied their function.”

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A dead man's warehouse. A coded ledger. Objects that remember.