All is not what it seems
Debut Novel · October 2026
The disappearance happened over the course of two days. First, all of the children. Then 90% of the population. No warning. No explanation. No bodies.
The survivors called it the Crash. Raven Carrillo and his brother George are searching for answers in a world that no longer makes sense. Then the dreams start, where Raven rises from a coffin inside an endless cathedral alongside George and a circle of strangers. Among the strangers is Paulina Guerrero, a survivor carved from grief and driven by one purpose: revenge against Jesse Wells, the man who did unspeakable things to her.
In the Arizona desert, a grand hotel stands impossibly untouched — its valets ready, its lights burning, its doors open. Something waits inside. And the truth of who chose the survivors, and why, will rewrite everything they thought they knew.
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The Author
Reuben Oliver is an Australian-born author now living in New York City. A former television editor whose credits include Big Brother Australia and I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, he brings a storyteller's instinct for pace, mystery, and the unexpected to his fiction. The Dead Raven is his debut novel.
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