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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania — one of the most productive farming regions in the country, and one of the most quietly contaminated. When a family farm and its dying patriarch come under pressure from a company that never says the word buy, the paperwork tells one story and the water tells another.

The first of thirteen novels tracing how an institution fails — built entirely on the public record. Every statistic is real. Every corporation is invented. The distance between them is the point.

K.R. Elliott was born in Kansas and raised in the orbit of the American military — a childhood measured in postings and partings, in towns that existed because the government decided they should. Elliott’s working life has since run on two tracks: medicine, and the public record. Years inside EPA enforcement files, federal court dockets, and agricultural data preceded the first word of fiction, and the novels treat that record as evidence — every statistic real, every corporation invented, the distance between them the point.

The catalog runs to fifty-two volumes across five bodies of work, published by Forensic Mythopolitik Press, with each title held sealed until its publication date. The record opens with House of Dust, Book I of The Thirteen Fractures — Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; a dying farm; a company that never says the word buy — publishing July 4, 2026. The ebook is on preorder now. Elliott lives in the Pacific Northwest.

K.R. Elliott was born in Kansas and raised in the orbit of the American military — a childhood measured in postings and partings, in towns that existed because the government decided they should. It may be the first lesson handed to a future novelist of institutions: the largest forces shaping a life are rarely the ones a child is allowed to see.

Elliott’s working life has run on two tracks since. One is medicine — years spent inside the systems that process people at their most exposed, where the chart outlasts the patient and the billing code outlasts them both. The other is the public record: EPA enforcement files, federal court dockets, agricultural data, the paperwork that survives the people it was filed against. Both careers taught the same finding from different ends — that an institution’s documents tell one story while its outcomes tell another — and the fiction was built to measure that distance. Every statistic in the novels is real. Every corporation is fictional. The distance is the point.

The catalog runs to fifty-two volumes across five bodies of work: The Thirteen Fractures, thirteen novels mapping institutional collapse across America’s original colonies; The Rootbound Archives, twenty companion novellas working the same ground from closer in; and three series on the institutions of work. All are published by Forensic Mythopolitik Press. In keeping with the work’s archival method, each title is held sealed — rendered as redaction — until its publication date.

The record opens with House of Dust: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a dying farmer, a family farm, and a corporation that would rather coordinate the water than own it. It publishes July 4, 2026 — the year America turns 250 — and the ebook is on preorder now. Elliott lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest.