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REWIND
A one-way trip to 1994 gives Scott Ward the life he thought he missed and forces him to decide what the past is really worth.
Book detailsIMPOSSIBLE PREMISES.
HUMAN CONSEQUENCES.
K.J. Halden
Emotionally grounded speculative fiction and suspense.
Ordinary people face impossible choices in stories that blend mystery, adventure, dry humor, and strong relationship stakes.
THE K.J. HALDEN NOVELS
Impossible questions. Human stakes.
Each novel begins with a destabilizing idea, then follows the human consequences through mystery, adventure, suspense, and relationship stakes.
October 30, 2026
25th Hour
A former prisoner watches his own murder on a monitor that shows exactly twenty-four hours into the future.
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January 31, 2027
Fading Signals
A divorced father follows a childhood Bigfoot memory into Idaho’s deepest wilderness, where the search for proof threatens the family life he still has.
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Spring 2027
The Weight of Unwritten Things
When a celebrated novelist stalls at 812 words, his publisher hires a prolific unknown to finish the book under his name.
Book detailsABOUT THE AUTHOR
Impossible premises. Human consequences.
K.J. Halden writes emotionally grounded speculative fiction and suspense about ordinary people facing impossible choices. His novels blend mystery, adventure, dry humor, and strong relationship stakes, using unusual premises to explore memory, identity, family, regret, and second chances.
The impossible premise is never the whole point. It is the pressure that reveals what people owe one another, what the past can and cannot repair, and which story they are finally willing to stop telling themselves.
Halden House is the adult-fiction imprint of Grace Matthews Books.
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