Your next thriller obsession awaits! Enter for a chance to win the first novel in the Mindbreakers series, The Silence Doctrine by M.K. Mercer, releasing November 24th, courtesy of Open Road Integrated Media.
Get ready to meet your favorite new cult buster—Dr. Lena Calder. The world’s leading expert on cults, having also grown up in one herself, Calder has dedicated her life to tearing them apart.
Her next case takes her to The Solen Center, a retreat in San Franscio where participants arrive riddled with digital addiction and leave transformed—with no memory of what they’ve been through. In this tantalizing psychological thriller, Lena must get inside to bring the operation down—and the only way to do so is to join.
Once finished with this page-turner, fret not—the next books in the Mindbreakers series will be released soon by Open Road Integrated Media. Read more about The Silence Doctrine below and enter your email address by November 10th for a chance to be one of five lucky winners!
This giveaway is open from October 30th through midnight on November 10th, 2026.
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About the Book
The Silence Doctrine
Dr. Lena Calder is the world’s foremost expert on cults. She knows how they recruit, control, and convince ordinary people to surrender everything. Her knowledge is professional—and deeply personal. She was raised in one.
Now she works to tear them apart. South of San Francisco, a mountain retreat offers something the modern world has forgotten: silence. Amidst the overwhelm of smartphones, digital addiction, and pervasive mass media, The Solen Center offers people suffering from anxiety, distraction, and stress a unique path to relief.
People arrive burned out and leave utterly transformed. But unbeknownst to them, inside the therapeutic practice is a secret that turns visitors into future unwitting operatives—committing acts for some of the world’s most dangerous people, with no memory of having done so.
A peculiar nineteen-minute gap in three apparently unrelated crimes leads Lena to the Solen Center. What she finds there suggests thousands of untraceable, unsolved crimes.
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Note: The sweepstakes is open to all legal residents of the 50 United States and Washington, DC who are 18 years of age and older by September 14, 2026.
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