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The shady oaks division

She was their most lethal asset. Retirement was supposed to be her reward.

Jill spent decades as one of the government’s most dangerous operatives. She survived things most people can’t imagine. But nothing in her training prepared her for this: a quiet suburb, a handler watching her every move, and the creeping suspicion that ordinary life might be what finally breaks her.

She tries. Garden lunches. Birdwatching. A part-time job at a bank. But Jill’s instincts don’t switch off—and when she starts to suspect her neighbors aren’t who they seem, no one is sure whether to trust her paranoia or fear it.

The Shady Oaks Division is a dark, character-driven thriller about identity, survival, and what happens when the thing that defined you is gone. For readers who want complicated women, moral ambiguity, and endings that feel earned—not easy.

Buy The Shady Oaks Division by L. M. Coppa

and then ben

Post-apocalyptic thriller and climate fiction come together in this story of one woman’s struggle for survival in a world decimated by an endless, unrelenting winter.

After the “event,” 38-year-old Alice finds herself completely alone—cruelly separated from her children and left with only vivid, haunting dreams of life as it was. Fueled by her sharp survival instincts and sheer resilience, Alice moves through each day like the one before—until she discovers she’s not as alone as she thought.

Alice’s need for human contact helps her overcome her apprehension about Ben, the only survivor she’s encountered for months. As the two are drawn closer together by their shared desire for companionship, their individual pasts begin to reveal that everyone is not exactly who they seem.

Buy And Then Ben by L. M. Coppa

UPCOMING WORK

We Stayed Until The Sky Fell—a Novella (2026)

Literary Fiction | Existential

On the edge between life and something beyond it, Charlotte finds herself forced to confront the moments, choices, and relationships that shaped her. In a space where time bends and truth reveals itself slowly, she must decide what it means to let go—and what it means to stay.

Eleanor in Dreams—
A Psychological Suspense Novel (Coming Soon)

Women’s Fiction | Suspense & Thriller

Eleanor wakes in a hospital room, surrounded by unfamiliar faces who claim to be her caretakers. Struggling against a pervasive sense of unreality, she must determine whether the story they’re telling her is the truth—or something far more dangerous.

Unable to speak or move, Eleanor is trapped inside her own mind while fragments of vivid dreams begin to surface—dreams that contradict everything the doctors claim is real.