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Brian Monteer

Reality is optional. The cost isn’t.

The Awakened trilogy is complete. The James Meden novels are next: historical horror on the 1870s frontier. In between, two YouTube channels: cold cases, and how the books get made.

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    The Series · Complete

    The Awakened

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    The Atlantean Shadow

    Book One · Available Now

    An archaeologist uncovers a truth older than history — and awakens something the world was never meant to remember. Across the centuries, the hunters of the Covenant have been waiting for this moment. The bloodline of Atlantis is about to surface.

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    The Rising Tide

    Book Two · Available Now

    The awakening was only the beginning. As an ancient power stirs in the deep and a covenant older than nations is tested, Elara Voss must become what she was always meant to be — and the world above will never be the same.

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    The Drowned Stars

    Book Three · Available Now

    Beneath the ice at the bottom of the world, the deep keeps its oldest secret — and something ancient is racing to claim it first. Four hundred years of choosing in the dark. Now the dark is choosing back. The finale of The Awakened.

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    Coming Next · A New Series

    The James Meden Novels

    Historical horror on the frontier of the 1870s. A U.S. Marshal riding for Judge Parker's court, and the files nobody else will take.

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    The Trusted Face

    Book One · December 2026

    1875. A U.S. Marshal hunts something that leaves no tracks: a creature that wears the faces of the people you trust. The Awakened showed you what stirs beneath the water. The Trusted Face asks what's been walking among us all along.

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    Red Whiskey

    Book Two · Spring 2027

    1876. James Meden rides back to Fort Smith with a report the Judge does not want to believe, and leaves with a file from a locked safe. The trail runs down the whiskey road to New Orleans, and what is selling the whiskey is older than the city.

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    On YouTube

    Two channels

    The Monteer Files

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    Cold cases and unsolved murders, worked the way a detective works them.

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    MonteerBooks

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    How the books get written, published and sold — what worked, what did not, and the numbers behind it.

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    Videos on both channels carry Spanish (Latin America) and Portuguese (Brazil) titles and subtitles.

    Brian Monteer
    The Author

    Brian Monteer

    Brian Monteer served twenty-five years as a police officer and is a veteran of the United States Army. He was Director of Protective Services for Amazon.com.

    He is the author of the Awakened trilogy — The Atlantean Shadow, The Rising Tide and The Drowned Stars — and of Two Fixed Points.

    His next series is the James Meden novels: The Trusted Face, complete and with readers, and Red Whiskey, in progress.

    He is also a podcaster. His channels, The Monteer Files and MonteerBooks, are on YouTube.

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    Two Fixed Points

    A Story About Getting Lost and Finding Your Way. A short, reflective book from a different corner of the same mind.

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