The Apocalypse is Upon Us!

In Come the Harpies, Egon Pace is a wayward senior at White Castle® High and a misfit in the violent, polluted world of 2076.

He hates the things totalitarian America loves most: Shooting guns, leading Yakker troops in foreign invasions, and breeding early and often to repopulate a nation ravaged by environmental diseases and non-stop gunplay.

His defiance gets him beaten, shot and humiliated until he finally snaps, lashing out against his school, the church, and the very nation where resistance is a capital offense.  

As the authorities close in to silence him, Egon and his girlfriend, Lynette, make a desperate break for a fabled utopian nation to the west. It’s a race for freedom…a race for survival.

 With a sharp-edged focus on how toxic trends prevalent in today’s America could play out in the future, Come the Harpies is a spell-binding thriller, a coming of age story, but most of all, a cautionary tale if society doesn’t soon change its ways.

Available in paperback and e-book

 

Book cover titled 'Come The Harpies: A Novel' by Carl Ehnis, featuring a harpy illustration and a Maxy Awards Finalist seal.

It was Great While it Lasted

Red book cover titled 'Race Riot' by Carl Ehnis, featuring a silhouette of a female sprinter with a paint splatter effect.

In Race Riot, Nick Freeman has the misfortune of seeing his grandest dreams come true. After years of late-night toil in his basement bunker, Nick lands on a scheme that ends his losing streak and sends his fortunes skyrocketing.

He quits his dead-end job, procures a trophy house with a Lexus parked in the driveway, and rules a burgeoning empire with a shrewd and lusty swagger

 And that’s when all the trouble begins.

 In a crazy ride fueled by greed, lust, rage, and revenge, Nick’s carefully constructed world crumbles around him. Race Riot is an epic of heroic struggle, vaulting ambition and hubris run amuck that ends in the only way possible.

Nick’s triumph turned nightmare is yet another reminder to be careful what you wish for.

 

Available in print and ebook

She’s Not Going to Take It!

Book cover of "Medicus: A Novel" by Carl Ehnis showing a silhouetted figure holding a syringe against a cityscape background.

Lisa Parmenter, wife, mother, and code cracker for a large software development firm, is widowed on page one. Was husband Earl’s death an accident—a matter of “wrong place, wrong time”? Or was he a victim of the corrupt practices perpetrated by his employer, MEDICUS Corporation?

Learning the truth, Lisa bursts out of her mourning malaise and embarks on a course of revenge, both bloody and financial.

 Fired by outrage and a fierce determination to protect her children, Lisa becomes a tornado of focused energy. She applies a razor-sharp mind and the skills of an elite software engineer to topple the MEDICUS leadership while fending off two hired guns out to permanently silence her.

There is no peace for Lisa until Earl’s death is avenged, MEDICUS is de-fanged, and her family is safe once again.

MEDICUS is a work of explosive force, both a page-turning thriller and a pitch black comedy that explores a mother’s grief and emotional recovery while shepherding three precocious children through a labyrinth of harrowing twists and turns.

 

Available in paperback and ebook

A Little Bit of Everything

Minimalist book cover for 'One Page a Day' by Carl Ehnis, featuring a stylized illustration of a sunglasses-wearing person with a hat and mustache.

One Page a Day is the anti-Seinfeld. It's not a book about nothing--it's a book about EVERYTHING, from the perspective of a novelist, musician, husband/dad, cook, investing pro, agnostic, and train commuter.

In 365 ultra-brief chapters, One Page a Day will keep you amused, enlightened and inspired. It's your daily fortune cookie--a crunchy treat with a message that constantly packs a surprise.

Things like the secret to playing guitar solos like a rock god, why it's dumb to take dreams seriously, how to get the best seat on the train, coping with people who are better than you, avoiding runner's knee forever, a path to financial security...and EVERYTHING else.

So pamper yourself. Each night after getting into your jammies, brushing your teeth and scrubbing behind your ears, burrow under the covers and savor your one page for that day. Then douse the lights in total serenity. For tomorrow will bring you another page!

Available as an ebook

Coming in 2026—

The Indispensable Lottie Hot

In my latest novel, Lottie Hot is a strong-willed woman who totally controls her husband, Anderson. She dies suddenly, only to return as a ghost convinced that Anderson was the cause of her death.

To get even, she insists that he join her in Purgatory, but Anderson’s building an exciting new life without Lottie and turns her down. Infuriated, Lottie resorts to drastic measures, leaving death and destruction in her wake!

The Runner-Up in Book Pipeline’s Unpublished competition in the Literary Novel category, The Indispensable Lottie Hot, will be published by Running Wild Press in 2026. Check back here for progress updates, cover reveal, and other news and events surrounding my latest blockbuster!