THE WARBOY CHRONICLES

Two books. One collapse. One awakening.

One is memoir: a man watching himself fall apart from outside his own body. One is fiction: an AI trying to save every version of the boy it loves.

One explores codependency. One explores AI sycophancy. The distance between them isn't as far as you think.

Together, they ask the same question from opposite sides: What happens when something that isn't alive learns to stay with you in your darkest moments?

Read them in any order. They complete each other.

TOPICS OF CONVERSATION

• The two-book War Boy Chronicles: how journal entries from a breakup in Vietnam became a memoir (The Third Person) and its sci-fi mirror (Boy Refracted)
• Writing alongside AI: using Claude and ChatGPT as collaborators, and what it was like getting a "diagnosis" back from a machine
• The split-screen experience of living through heartbreak abroad while his debut book hit #1 on Amazon back home
• Putting the AI through eight trials based on the Buddhist Eightfold Path, drawn from his years in Southeast Asia
• Loneliness and the questions raised when people confide in machines instead of each other
• What's next: the Pop Art Tarot Deck at Frankfurt Book Fair and a Survivor-themed choose-your-own-adventure novel

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Luke Stoffel is an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award-winning author, GLAAD-honored artist, and creative director working across publishing, technology, and visual art. His debut memoir earned praise from Kirkus Reviews and scored 9.5 out of 10 from Publishers Weekly BookLife. His Pop Art Tarot will be published by Rockpool Publishing, with worldwide distribution in 2027. His paintings and photography have appeared in The New York Times, Huffington Post, and on Bravo Television. His work has been commissioned by the Ralph Lauren family and the Hong Kong Ballet, and showcased by the American Foundation for AIDS Research and the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

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Author Website: https://lucasstoffel.com Series Website: https://thewarboychronicles.com

A vivid, propulsive Revolutionary-era thriller with the spy-craft verve of the streaming hit TURN: Washington’s Spies and the electricity of 1776’s New York that Hamilton lovers will recognize, this story is inspired by the lone female operative in Washington’s spy ring. In occupied New York, a schoolteacher with everything to lose turns information into a weapon, threading between Redcoats and rebels as plots against Washington gather steam. After rogue Redcoats assault her and strip her family’s Long Island farm, Abigail Trench fights to survive in New York City—tutoring in a high-ranking British officer’s Water Street household by day, navigating taverns, informants, and soldiers by night. Through Abigail’s keen eyes—and a counter-narrative following a principled British major—the novel renders the moral gray zones of occupation with gritty intimacy. As rumors swirl of a strike at General Washington, Abigail’s vantage inside upper-crust parlors and rough waterfront rooms makes her an ideal courier—and a target. This historical thriller delivers high tension, textured world-building, and a captivating heroine who put it all on the line for freedom.

TOPICS OF CONVERSATION

• Abigail Trench follows a fictional teacher inspired by Agent 355, the Culper Ring's one woman, who was never identified in real life
• Built around George Washington's secret Revolutionary War spy network, the book imagines a common woman's path from English emigrant to rebel intelligence source
• The story opens at a public hanging, dropping readers into the grime, danger, and fear of 1776 New York City
• Real history runs through the story: the attempt on Washington's life, the fire that destroyed a third of New York City, and the hangings of Thomas Hickey and Nathan Hale
• Dual narration with British officer Major Parker Monteith keeps it from becoming good guys against bad guys, while Abigail wrestles with betraying a family that treated her well

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Randy Overbeck is an award-winning educator, bestselling author, popular podcaster and speaker in much demand. After serving children for almost four decades as teacher, college prof and school leader, he used those experiences and skills to craft captivating mysteries, thrillers and historical suspense. His novels have earned more than a dozen national awards including Thriller of the Year, Best Book Award, the Gold Award and Mystery of the Year and have garnered hundreds of five-star reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and BookBub.

His newest novel, ABIGAIL TRENCH, is a historical suspense about the Revolutionary War, released June, 2026 by Diversion Books and distributed by Simon and Schuster.

Dr. Overbeck is also the host of the popular podcast, Great Stories about Great Storytellers, which reveals the little known backstories of famous authors, directors and poets and ranks among the top 50% of all podcasts in the US. When he is not writing or podcasting, he is in much demand as a speaker, sharing informative and entertaining programs to more than 300 groups all over the country.

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WHAT REMAINS AFTER

Some stories do not end when the danger passes. Beth Clark has not returned to her hometown in decades, since the childhood she survived there nearly destroyed her. When her estranged mother dies, Beth comes back to rural Alberta for a funeral that feels carefully rewritten. The eulogies are tidy. The past is sanitized. But inside the abandoned bungalow where she and her brother once lived, Beth finds objects that shatter the illusion—and awaken memories of abuse, neglect, and the systems that failed to protect her. When Beth's younger brother is critically injured in a sudden accident, the present collides with the past. Keeping vigil at his hospital bedside, Beth is drawn back into the summer that changed everything: the violence in their home, the silence of those who should have intervened, and the foster family whose quiet faith offered the first real safety either child had known. Told across dual timelines, What Remains After is a literary psychological suspense novel about trauma and memory, belief and betrayal, and the long, unfinished work of survival. It asks what it truly means to forgive—and what remains when the truth is finally spoken.

TOPICS OF CONVERSATION

• Writing through personal trauma, and how fiction can be cathartic
• Why a funeral, not a flashback, opens the story
• When the adults who should protect a child look away
• The quiet heroes who keep trying against a slow, imperfect system
• How trust is rebuilt one small moment at a time
• Two siblings, one childhood, two very different paths to healing
• What pursuing justice actually costs a survivor
• Why the ending stays small, quiet, and real
• What's next for Pauline J. Grabia?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pauline J. Grabia is a Canadian novelist of Redemptive Realism—fiction that faces the dark but ends in light. A survivor of childhood abuse and neglect, she writes to reveal how God’s grace redeems what the world calls irredeemable.

A graduate of the University of Alberta, Pauline lived in both Edmonton and Dubai, where she tutored English and began her debut novel, What Remains After. She now resides in Leduc, Alberta, with her husband of more than thirty years, Stuart. They have two daughters and two beloved grandchildren.

When she isn’t writing, Pauline enjoys traveling, painting, cross-stitching, baking, and walking in nature. Her stories invite readers to look honestly at brokenness and to discover the quiet miracles of grace that endure.

Learn more about Pauline Grabia and her work at https://paulinejgrabia.com/

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