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A Killing at Pine Needle Farm: A Novel

SOME SECRETS ARE WORTH KILLING FOR

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Joshua Powell
May 26, 2025
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SOME SECRETS ARE WORTH KILLING FOR

A Killing at Pine Needle Farm: A Novel

So, I am dropping the first few chapters of my new fiction and first ever fiction novel — “A Killing at Pine Needle Farm” on Medium & Substack starting this week.

What happens when a respected professor’s carefully constructed life begins to unravel?

“Meet Jake McCann PhD, he’s molding young minds at Columbia University. But lurking beneath his academic facade is a blood-soaked secret that refuses to stay buried.

Years ago, corporate betrayal drove Jake to the edge. Vodka, pills, and a reckless sex-filled night was meant to be a momentary escape… until he woke up next to a body with only small fragments of memory of what happened. The choices he made in those desperate moments would haunt him forever.

Now the past is clawing its way back, and the truth waiting in the shadows is more twisted than anyone could imagine.”

For readers who devoured The Secret History and crave something even darker, this psychological thrill…

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