This month, we're giving away the debut novel in the Mindbreakers series, The Silence Doctrine by M.K. Mercer, releasing November 24th from Open Road Integrated Media.
This cult psychological thriller follows Dr. Lena Calder, the world's leading expert on cults, a profession deeply tied to her own personal history of being raised in one. She begins investigating a mountain retreat south of San Francisco called The Solen Center.
While the center markets itself as a peaceful, silent sanctuary for people looking to escape digital overload and anxiety, it holds a much darker secret. To uncover the truth, Lena is forced to infiltrate the center herself.
This is your chance to get an advance taste of this highly anticipated new thriller series.
Read more about The Silence Doctrine below and enter your email address by November 10th for a chance to win!
The Silence Doctrine
Dr. Lena Calder is the world’s foremost expert on cults. She knows how they recruit, how they control, and how they convince ordinary people to surrender everything. She understands the machinery of cults from the inside because she was raised in one. Now she works to tear them apart.
South of San Francisco, a peaceful mountain retreat offers people suffering from anxiety, distraction, and stress a unique path to relief. No phones. No talking. Only the body, the breath, and a focus on one’s hands. People arrive burned out and leave utterly transformed. The waiting list runs to months.
But unbeknownst to them, inside the therapeutic practice is a secret that turns visitors into future unwitting operatives—committing acts for some of the world's most dangerous people, with no memory of having done so.
A peculiar nineteen-minute gap in three apparently unrelated crimes leads Lena to the Solen Center. What she finds there suggests thousands of untraceable, unsolved crimes. But the only way to prove it is for Lena to join.
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Note: The sweepstakes is open to all legal residents of the 50 United States and Washington, DC who are 18 years of age and older by October 30, 2026.
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