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The Jehovah Project – Coming Fall 2026!

Published by Winding Road Stories

The Jehovah Project is a pre-apocalyptic philosophical thriller about Detective Drake Currote, a morally driven ex-cop who becomes entangled in a secretive, elite criminal syndicate led by the enigmatic Aria. Drake’s moral certainty collapses when he discovers the syndicate developing world-saving technology … that’s built on horrific human costs. As the cartel’s ambitions spiral into truly terrifying territory, Drake must choose between destroying a miracle or unleashing a nightmare. The Jehovah Project is a speculative techno-thriller designed to bring back all those pandemic anxieties.

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“With The Jehovah Project, Ladd delivers a clever, riveting exploration of the shades of gray that inhabit human morality. This book is a thought-invoking wild ride from beginning to end, as we follow Drake’s adventures on an undercover assignment riddled with impossible choices and inconceivable realities.”

 – Elizabeth S. Devecchi author of A Whisper in the Dark

“A provocative, high-concept thriller, The Jehovah Project explores what happens when the desire to fix the world goes too far. The tension comes not just from the stakes, but from the logic behind them, creating a story that challenges as much as it entertains. Ladd doesn’t flinch when the consequences arrive.”  

– Carter Wilson, USA Today bestselling author of Tell Me What You Did

“An engaging drama that careens between sharp-minded critique of modern society and over-the-top action thriller.”

—Mario Acevedo, author of The Nymphos of Rocky Flats

Strip: The Making of a Feminist

Published by Changemakers Books, 2018

Catlyn Ladd has smashed that wearisome dichotomy “Madonna-whore,” and replaced it with a better tension for women to master in the 21st Century: the sexual-intellectual. Working in strip clubs for five years while obtaining her undergraduate and first graduate degrees, Ladd is uniquely positioned to offer insight into a world that is caricatured, denigrated, and misunderstood. Most provocatively, she argues that in strip clubs she became a feminist. 

The exotic dancer exits in popular culture most often as scenery. When she is allowed to speak, she does so to the male protagonist and is either the conniving woman attempting to relieve the hero of the cash in his wallet, or fallen woman in need of rescue. She is rarely named, existing only as a backdrop, red lights flashing on pliant flesh like a crime scene. She is white, blonde, slim, with large breasts. She is stripper Barbie, plastic porn. 

This book attempts to bring nuance to a subject that is often overlooked, ignored, or otherwise silenced. To all readers of human culture interested in the anthropology of what it means to be a sex object in modern America, this book is about much more than stripping. It argues that gentlemen’s clubs are a microcosm that distills the female experience of patriarchal culture. On the body of woman is written male desire. In the eyes of woman, gazing at the male, culture can truly be seen.