Arthur Mills
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Arthur Mills served for more than two decades as an Army Intelligence Warrant Officer, specializing in piecing together what others missed: patterns, threats, enemy intent, and clandestine activity. He trained intelligence professionals, built threat models, and briefed commanders and world leaders on global threats and battlefield strategy. After retiring from the military, he moved into private investigation, focusing on missing persons, human trafficking, opposition research, and domestic terrorism. He holds a degree in Counter Terrorism Studies.
He has been writing books since 2006 and is an award-winning author. He publishes under his own name, though much of what he has written has appeared under pseudonyms. Readers may already know those titles without knowing they are his. The separation is intentional. His books invite readers to interpret what is hidden, and so does the way he publishes them. |
The Empty Lot Next Door
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Memoir
In an Austin neighborhood, Ray, Arthur’s childhood name, moves with his family into a small house surrounded by a green lawn. Beside it sits a vacant lot where a house once stood, and a huge hole at the back gapes like a scar. Ray and his new friends treat the lot as a playground until he learns the story behind it. Years earlier, the house burned, and a little girl died in the fire. The neighborhood kids say she'll haunt anyone who jumps into the hole. Ray cannot let the legend stand untested. He dares the ghost and makes a choice he'll regret. Soon, he's haunted by the girl he names Candle Face for her charred face and body. She slips into his dreams and leaves handprints and other signs around the house, even when he's awake. The Empty Lot Next Door is more than a ghost story. It explores childhood desperation and helplessness when parents work long hours away from home. It confronts sibling abuse and the lasting scars it leaves on victims and abusers. It follows a child trying to make sense of fear in silence, refusing to add to a family already strained. 
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Candle Face Chronicles: The Lost Souls [Book One]
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Paranormal
Candle Face Chronicles: The Lost Souls [Book One] documents real cases through an interactive, paranormal-investigation format. You don’t just read the accounts. You take part in the investigation. Follow Arthur Mills, a seasoned intelligence analyst and investigator of missing persons and human trafficking. Arthur asks you to help in two ways. First, locate the victims’ remains. Each spirit testimony contains specific details, memories, and place-based clues that can be pieced together into a search area. Second, identify the killers. Some spirits describe how Candle Face pushed followers to kill in her name. Your attention to names, vehicles, routines, and small descriptions may point to suspects. As Arthur records visions and notes, you sort signals from noise and connect testimonies across cases. Dates, landmarks, weather, and local habits matter. The goal is practical: find the dead, name the living who caused it, and bring the victims peace. This isn’t a passive anthology. Your theories and research become part of the effort to stop Candle Face and help the lost souls be found. 
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Candle Face Chronicles: The Lost Souls [Book Two]
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Paranormal
These are real cases. Candle Face Chronicles: The Lost Souls [Book Two] continues the investigation into one of the most dangerous spirits ever encountered: Candle Face. This isn’t passive reading. It’s a working case file that requires your direct involvement. Over fifteen months, the voices of her victims have grown clearer. They bring names, locations, timelines, and hard details that push the case forward. Your task remains the same: confirm identities, locate remains, and identify the people who committed the killings in her name. The testimonies grow more direct, and so do the stakes. Book Two introduces the Fugitives, spirits who escaped Candle Face’s lair but remain exposed. They aren’t free. They require protection, research, and steady analysis to keep them from being drawn back into her reach. Each chapter presents testimony that demands close reading and careful logic. You’re not an observer. You’re part of the investigative team. As the pattern of manipulation and betrayal becomes clearer, so does the responsibility placed in your hands. This is an ongoing mission to restore names, confront killers, and protect those who managed to survive Candle Face. 
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Candle Face Chronicles: Isabel - The Forgotten Daughter of La Llorona [Book Three]
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Paranormal
La Llorona’s legend speaks of two drowned sons, but her third child, Isabel, was forgotten. Her brothers rose to godhood. Her mother became a legend. Isabel’s fury smoldered in silence. Now, from a collection of chaotic handwritten notes left by a Disciple, her story resurfaces in an interactive format that has never been done before. This premium spiral edition of Isabel arrives fully assembled and ready to explore. Each of the eleven “books,” or chapters, holds 8 horizontal notes, each hand-cut into individual strips that flip independently to reveal one of 8 possible versions, yielding over 16 million combinations per book and more than 2.96 × 10^79 variations across all eleven books – an 80-digit number. At just three minutes per reading, it would take more than 1.69 × 10^74 years, far longer than the lifespan of the universe, to experience every possibility. Every copy is built by hand, taking more than 3 hours to assemble. The book lies completely flat for easy flipping, includes an authentication sticker, and is hand-numbered in the order it was created. No two copies are identical. Each shift in text uncovers a different side of Isabel: what made her angry, what she lost, and how she became something the world refused to remember. She was forgotten, and then she changed. What are we really finding when we follow her story? An erased child, or something she left behind to make sure we never stop looking? Isabel: The Forgotten Daughter of La Llorona is a puzzle that never settles, built to be read in more ways than every human ever born could finish, even reading together. It’s the story of a girl the world tried to erase, and she’s not done yet. Note: While Isabel is Book Three in the Candle Face Chronicles series, it’s a standalone experience and doesn’t require knowledge of Books One or Two. |
The Haunted Handbook: Forms and Strategies for Paranormal Investigations
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Paranormal
The Haunted Handbook is a practical guide for paranormal investigators who want cases documented with accuracy, consistency, and professionalism. It provides ready-to-use forms and field-tested strategies for teams that take clients seriously and want their work to stand up to scrutiny. Built on decades of experience in intelligence analysis and real-world investigations of missing persons and human trafficking, the handbook brings investigative discipline to a field that often lacks a standard process. It also includes input from paranormal teams across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The forms are designed to work as a modular toolkit. Each one can stand alone, so you can pull only what you need for a given case. You’ll find structured intake and consent pages, interview prompts, scene and timeline documentation, evidence logs, and follow-up notes that help a team stay organized from first contact to final report. Beyond paperwork, the handbook covers practical methods for managing stress, staying safe during unexpected encounters, communicating with clients, and keeping investigations on schedule. Whether you’re new to the field or seasoned, The Haunted Handbook gives you a clear, repeatable system for credible, client-centered investigations.
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The Legend of Mara Flores
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Suspense
At 5:28 a.m., Mara Flores swipes her access badge, and the Tower lets her in. For twenty years, Mara has opened the café before dawn, kept the espresso machine running, and moved through the building as if she were part of the infrastructure. Necessary. Overlooked. Still labeled temporary. Then, in a single night, she loses her apartment and has nowhere left to go. When Mara finds a misplaced access badge in the Tower’s indoor garden, she makes a choice she never imagined. She slips back into the building after hours and begins sleeping in spaces no one checks. Unfinished floors. Service corridors. Mechanical rooms tucked between offices that no one notices anymore. She learns the Tower the way you learn a body, through routine, pressure points, and repetition. Before long, rumors begin to circulate. Employees whisper about a Phantom living inside the Tower. A presence that appears and disappears without explanation. A story with a face no one can quite remember. But the Tower is never truly empty. Deep below the lobby, inside a windowless security operations center, analysts track movement and behavior across hundreds of cameras. They’re not searching for a person. They’re searching for a pattern. And Mara is becoming one. As she listens to conversations meant to stay behind closed doors, Mara begins to understand that the Tower is hiding more than a trespasser within its walls. Decisions made on the upper floors have consequences far beyond the building itself. And the closer she gets to the truth, the tighter the system begins to close. The Legend of Mara Flores is a slow-burn corporate thriller where the danger builds quietly, then suddenly. Each night, Mara learns another seam in the Tower. Each day, the system tightens, adds cameras, changes access, and starts hunting what it can’t explain.
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Friend or Foe
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Fiction, Political Fable
An interactive fable with three endings. The story branches, and you decide how it ends. The oaks let go all at once that autumn, more acorns than the park had seen in a lifetime. A mast year, the chipmunks called it, and they knew what it meant: a gift with a bill attached. They read the fall for what it was and went to work, hauling their winter down one nut at a time. The jays came down out of a clear sky, bright and loud and glad to be alive. They ate where they stood, and played, and let the rest lie. Mitch offered to teach them how to lay a larder. He offered twice. The door was open the entire autumn, and it only ever had work behind it. Then the ground went bare. The cold came weeks ahead of its habit. And a bird named Javlin, who had never gathered a nut in his life, stood up in front of a hungry flock and told them whose fault it was. He was charming. He was certain. And what he said went down easy on an empty stomach. The story runs straight until the night the park has to decide. Then it stops and hands the decision to you. Take one trail and follow it all the way down. Each one ends somewhere different, and each one ends with a bill. Three trails run out of that night. One follows the earners as they try to hold what they made. One follows the flock as it takes the stores and rules what it takes. One follows the road a killing winter forces open. Somebody loses on all three. Choose your trail. 
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Co-Author
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Paranormal Romance
Chelsie Crammer wants to write a romance that lasts. Creating her book's hero was easy. Falling in love with him wasn't part of the plan. Chelsie writes romance for a living, and she has never believed a word of it, not really, until the tenth novel starts writing itself. She and her husband have come out to a cottage at the edge of the woods so she can finally write the book she has in her. Instead, she finds a dead man's clothes in an attic trunk, and within days, her manuscript starts writing itself, chapters she doesn't remember, finished in her own voice. A hero who answers her. A hero who knows what she wants before she does. Chelsie names her heroine after herself, and the wall between the woman at the desk and the woman on the page starts to come down. She falls in love with her co-author. She stops asking who he is. And she stops noticing that her husband can't reach her anymore, that a harmonica plays by the lake at night, that the old man next door goes quiet whenever the water comes up. By the time the book is nearly finished, only one chapter is left, the one the whole story has been moving toward, and Chelsie needs her co-author to write it. She wants it more than she has wanted anything. She has never once asked what it will cost her to read it. Co-Author is a paranormal thriller about the reader who won't let a character die, and the terrible tenderness of getting exactly what you asked for. 
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The Crawl Space
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Young Adult, Interactive
The Crawl Space features 24 choices and 11 alternate endings. The Crawl Space by Arthur Mills isn’t just a book; it’s an adventure that pulls young readers into its pages, transforming them from spectators into active participants in a narrative that challenges their decisions and shapes the story’s outcome. Set within the eerie confines of a seemingly ordinary school, this interactive tale follows three notorious bullies known as The Unholy Three. As they navigate the dark corridors and hidden spaces in their school, young readers are invited to make choices that will affect the characters’ paths and learn valuable lessons about the consequences of bullying. Illustrated with gripping artwork that brings the spooky setting to life, “The Crawl Space” serves as a powerful tool for parents and educators to discuss the importance of empathy, kindness, and the impacts of bullying with children. This book doesn’t just tell a story; it asks questions, challenges perceptions, and offers young readers the chance to change the outcome through their choices. Each decision leads to different consequences, making readers think twice about the power of their actions. The Crawl Space can be read repeatedly with multiple endings, providing new lessons and insights with each journey through its pages. Ideal for children aged 8 to 16, this book combines the thrill of a ghost story with the real-world issue of bullying. It is a compelling read for children and a valuable resource for discussing how we treat others. Dive into The Crawl Space and see where your choices will lead you! 
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