Bestselling author J.T. PARKES thinks writer’s block is his biggest problem – until a stranger knocks him out and imprisons him in his own home. MARCO’s ultimatum is simple: finish a new novel or die. As Jim writes under torture and impossible deadlines, one question drives him: who hired Marco? His unfinished book is worth millions — to his publisher, his agent, the studio chasing another hit, even the woman he married. But the deeper Marco pushes him, the more Jim’s buried past claws to the surface. To escape, he must turn the very story he’s being forced to write into his only weapon.

 HARD COVER is a survival thriller about a man forced to write the book that could kill him — or set him free.