Ghost Gun
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Pub Date 12 May 2026 | Archive Date 2 Dec 2026
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Description
"Especially highly recommended for book clubs." — D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
"Distinctive and immersive." — Foreword Clarion Reviews (5-star review)
A multiracial family from New York returns, again and again, to Mobile, Alabama — drawn back by family ties to a place where a decades-old lynching still shapes the present. Their eighteen-year-old son has already begun to uncover what happened.
They arrive from the North with distance, money, and the quiet protections of privilege. In Mobile, those protections begin to thin. The past feels closer here — less abstract, more lived — and the divisions it produced remain visible in ways they cannot ignore. The family itself carries its own fault lines: a white father, a Black mother, and children who move between worlds, read differently depending on where they are.
At the center is eighteen-year-old Elijah, navigating the contradictions of identity, inheritance, and rage. As he pushes deeper into his family's past, what begins as a search for understanding starts to slip beyond his control, threatening consequences he cannot foresee.
Around him, each member of the family confronts their own fracture. His father retreats into systems of control, preparing for a future he believes is already collapsing. His mother resists a life shaped by fear and distance. His sister watches, reads, and searches for meaning in what remains unsaid.
Told through shifting interior voices, Ghost Gun explores family inheritance, race, class, mental illness, and the uneasy boundary between reckoning and destruction.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
★★★★★ Foreword Clarion Reviews
“Distinctive and immersive.”
“A provocative novel… reckoning with generational trauma, mental illness, and historical injustices.”
— Foreword Clarion Reviews
“Especially highly recommended for book clubs.”
“Libraries that choose Ghost Gun for their collections will find it replete with insights and power that flows from the interactive strength of its characters into different kinds of battles won and lost in families, communities, and American society.”
— Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review
“I flew through this book. It covers race, family, inheritance and even some self-reflection. I was hooked on the multiple narratives and related immediately. It’s fast-paced, immersive and raw.”
— Natalie Preddie, award-winning journalist and author
“Powerful, emotional, and beautifully written. Highly recommend.”
— Dr. Jamilah Green, Apothecary Tales Press
“One of my favorite reads of the year… I absolutely loved it.”
— Kevin Adams, The Hudson Valley Book Nerd
“I finished Ghost Gun wanting to talk about almost everything in it.”
— Emma Sinclair, The Second Draft ★★★★★
— Selected for Deep South Magazine’s 2026 Summer Reading List.
— Invited author at the Louisiana Book Festival.
Marketing Plan
Ghost Gun is being promoted through ongoing reviewer, library, bookstore, book-club and literary-media outreach, along with NetGalley, Goodreads, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Substack.
Review copies have been distributed to literary reviewers, librarians, educators, book bloggers, Southern media outlets and independent bookstores.
The novel received a five-star review from Foreword Clarion Reviews, was selected for Deep South Magazine’s 2026 Summer Reading List, and was especially recommended for book clubs by Midwest Book Review. cc ECK was invited to present at the 2026 Louisiana Book Festival.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9298995540700 |
| PRICE | $4.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 268 |