Mystery · Jackson Dahl
Shoes Inside
A novella
A pair of women’s heels on the floorboards of an empty car. No driver. No purse. The opening case file in a new PI series.
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Single-author imprintFounded 2025 · Fiction, memoir, field guides
Books built from pressure, systems, family, and consequence.
A small imprint for Robert Cummer’s work across genres: techno-thrillers, cold-case mystery, post-surgical memoir, and practical field guides from industrial life.
A mangrove survives because its roots run wide, not just deep. You cannot always tell where one tree ends and the next begins.
This imprint takes its name from that kind of root system: family, chosen family, work, memory, craft, and the obligations that hold a life together.
Every book under the colophon comes from real systems and real stakes. The thrillers understand controls and risk. The field guides understand plant-floor pressure. The memoir understands what happens after the incision closes and everyone else exhales.
The mark is a tree with roots that carry the initials C, B, and W. The tree is the imprint. The roots are the reason.
Mystery · Jackson Dahl
A novella
A pair of women’s heels on the floorboards of an empty car. No driver. No purse. The opening case file in a new PI series.
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Fiction · Knox Ramsey
A geopolitical tech-thriller
A controlled-environment agriculture system is weaponized, and an engineer discovers the science is real and the threat is global.
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Memoir
After the incision closes
A blunt, darkly funny memoir of open-heart surgery and the three-ring circus that came after.
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Technical · Boots on the Ground
Field troubleshooting
Thirty years of plant-floor knowledge, decision trees, and field patterns for when production stops.
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