The Hanged Man book 1: Do Better

Something is teaching at Stone Tutoring after hours, and it grades in blood.

Available 11/20/26

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Silas Stone doesn't believe in demons. He believes in bench press reps, student data, and the phantom leg pain that saves him from nightmares. He barely believes in the black rope that took his wife fourteen months ago. Before Silas lost his leg that night in the garage, he climbed mountains and ran marathons with Claire; now, he buries himself in his tutoring center.

Chase Shipley is young, eager, and terrified of disappointing his father. When Silas finds DO BETTER covering the whiteboard in neat, careful columns, he assumes it's stress. But when Chase starts carving grades into his body, Silas has no answer.

Something else does.

Chase begged to be better. Something heard him.

It wears a green tracksuit and carries a nailed bat. It has built its own classroom of flesh and bone, and teaches one lesson: if you're not the best, you're the worst.

Silas already failed one person. He won't fail another. But the ring he wears around his neck feels like a noose, and Chase may not be the teacher's star pupil.

Everyone can do better.

"Do Better" is Book One of "The Hanged Man," an occult trilogy set in the Pacific Northwest.