Debut Novel-OCTOBER 2026
Cutty Braughn is a literary Caribbean thriller hero chasing missing family, dirty money, and the cost of escape across Central America and the islands.
Start the adventure
Step into Revelation at Tikal, book one of the Cutty Braughn trilogy—where a vanished sister, a lucrative gallery show, and an ancient-astronaut cult collide in 1970s Guatemala.
[Read the first three chapters right here»]
Listen to the fiction podcast
Prefer to listen? Follow the Revelation at Tikal podcast and hear each chapter in a serialized, audio‑drama style, read by the author.
About Cutty & the trilogy
Meet Cutty Braughn, a road‑scarred seeker who keeps stumbling into other people’s bad decisions—cult leaders, smugglers, and dangerous lovers with secrets of their own. Discover how Revelation at Tikal, The Last of the Goletas, and Shh, Never Ask the Coquis weave one long Caribbean thriller about loyalty, money, and escape.
About the author
I’m an indie author and longtime Caribbean storyteller living in the El Yunque rainforest of Puerto Rico. I write character‑driven literary thrillers, host the Revelation at Tikal | Literary Adventure Fiction Podcast, and share behind‑the‑scenes stories from the real places that shaped Cutty’s world.
About the author
Started writing stories as a teenager and, in a rare bout of wisdom, waited a few decades before letting anyone see them. After a doomed stint in Hollywood—failing as a screenwriter and later working as an editor for LA Showguide—he drifted north, where he helped his sister with raising seven children — a long‑term social experiment that everyone survived. Respectability made a few halfhearted passes: cabinetmaker, shipwright, marine surveyor, ship’s agent, innkeeper—each one another chapter in the education of a man who probably should have tried harder as a writer. These days he does what Cutty Braughn does on the page: mines wrecked plans and questionable life choices for stories, riding them down the coasts of the Americas into the Caribbean and back to a small inn in Puerto Rico, where he’s survived forty‑five years, three major hurricanes, and more plot twists than any sensible protagonist would sign up for.
— the painting was me much younger and the artist was the inspiration for “Floey” who you’ll read about in “the Revelation at Tikal”