Never Trust Home: Received a 4+ star review, making it an IndieReader Approved title.
Following find an interview with author Mister C:
1. What is the name of the book and when was it published?
Answer: The book is titled Never Trust Home, and was published May 5, 2025
2. What’s the book’s first line?
Answer: He was lost.
3. What’s the book about?
Answer: In the heart of Oklahoma, Charles Langley is a man lost—burdened by a criminal past, and a secret addiction threatening to consume him. When his father’s heart attack lands him in a hospital, a chance encounter with the Red Sea Initiative pulls him into a gritty battle against human trafficking. Alongside a team of dedicated operatives, Charles confronts Joseph, a monster profiting from the torment of young Olivia. As he fights to save Olivia and himself, Charles discovers a fragile hope—a new family, a path to redemption, and a vow to never let darkness win again. “Never Trust Home” is a raw, emotional thriller about courage, recovery, and the power of purpose.
4. What inspired you to write the book?
Answer: The story of Tim Ballard, founder of OUR Rescue, and Matt Parker, founder of The Exodus Road, inspired me to write novels that display the reality of human trafficking, and how rescue is actually done as opposed to the action movies. The novel (and all subsequent novels to be in the series) are based on true stories that have taken place within these non profit organizations.
5. What’s the main reason someone should really read this book?
Answer: Aside from the thrill of the story, Never Trust Home contains true statistics about human trafficking, along with scenarios that have taken place in the real world around us. The Red Sea Initiative’s motto: Education, Awareness, Action, stands as a good rule of life outside the book.
6. What’s the most distinctive thing about the main character?
Answer: He’s truly human. He doesn’t just struggle with the normal evil tropes in fiction. He struggles with real addictions that lead down darker paths than normal, and then plunges himself into those depths anyways to make a difference in the world around him. He struggles mostly not to become the evil he’s battling against.
7. When did you first decide to become an author?
Answer: I was in the second grade when I was challenged by a friend to write a book. I accepted, and my very first short story “Night of the Werewolves” was born.
8. Is this the first book you’ve written?
Answer: No. I published my first book, “The Downfall”, a post-apocalyptic zombie thriller set in the Midwest in 2021, and the sequel to that book, “The Revelation”, in 2023.
9. What do you do for work when you’re not writing?
Answer: During the day I work as a Logistics Coordinator for a warehousing company in smalltown Southwest Missouri, and in the evening I work as a forklift driver for an animal feed manufacturing plant.
10. How much time do you generally spend on your writing?
Answer: Not as much as I’d like! Working two jobs while balancing family life is difficult enough, but I set a minimum daily word count to hit every day, and put in the words whenever I have free time.
11. What’s the best and the hardest part of being an indie?
Answer: The best part is the control you have over everything. The worst part is the control you have over everything. Most traditional authors only have to write the books. Indies have to write, edit, proofread, design, assemble, and publish the book, then market and manage a social media presence.
12. What’s a good piece of advice that you can share with fellow Indie Authors?
Answer: My best advice is to join a group of writers, whether it be the local writer’s guild or some other League of Distinguished Gentlemen sort of thing. Connecting with other people, and having the joined experience of everyone, really makes a difference in your journey. Attend Conferences, and meet people!
13. Would you go traditional if a publisher came calling?
Answer: That would be a tough decision to make. There’s a lot of factors that go into whether or not to be traditional or not. The royalties are higher in Indie publishing, but boy is it a lot of work taking care of the business side of things!
14. Is there something in particular that motivates you?
Answer: Who doesn’t envy the fame and fortune of big names like J.K. Rowling and Stephen King? Yes, in the beginning, I chased that. My dream was to make it big as a writer of zombie stories. Now, however, my goal is to spread awareness in human trafficking, and maybe help make the world a better place, and maybe make a couple bucks while I’m at it.
15. Which writer, living or dead, do you most admire?
Answer: Robert A Heinlein. Period. No ifs, ands, or buts. No writer of stories was ever better, and no better dialogue has ever hit the pages. I might not be able to write science fiction, but Heinlein makes me love to read it!
16. Which book do you wish you could have written?
Answer: There are definitely a lot of good classics and great books out there, but I can’t insult them enough to wish I had written them.