Care for Yourself Like a Cat
Discover how caring for your cat can teach you to care for yourself, too. A gentle guide to boundaries, rest, responsibility, and thriving together.
ELI HARTWELL · AUTHOR & STORYTELLER
Some stories
don’t let go.
Adventure. Mystery. Courage. And the choices that make us who we are. Discover fiction and reflections written to leave a mark.
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Different worlds.
One restless imagination.
From caring for yourself with the same attention you give a beloved cat to adventures where family secrets change everything, every story begins with a question worth exploring.
FEATURED WORKS
Between the covers
Three distinctive journeys. Where will yours begin?
The Recruit
Graduation should have been his greatest achievement. Instead, it becomes a deadly test of his training—and the secrets his family has kept.
Jackson Price: Trails Behind the Springbox
A faint ticking behind a wall. A mysterious device left by his father. One clue that draws Jackson into the deep—and toward a danger the world cannot see.
Publication dates and purchase links will be announced here as they become available.
Adventure begins with a question.
Courage begins with a choice.
THE AUTHORForged by Fire,
Forged by Fire,
Writing for the Bold
Army veteran. Building Designer. Father. Husband. Eli Hartwell has lived a life shaped by discipline, craftsmanship, and the kind of hard-won wisdom that only comes from doing things the difficult way.
From designing buildings that must stand against the elements, to standing watch in places most people only read about — Eli understands what it means to be tested. And he writes because of it.
His books exist to embolden the next generation. Because life will bring heat — and the question is never whether you'll be tested, but whether you'll let that heat forge you into something stronger. Eli writes to see the iron cool from red to a harder, more brilliant mettle.
Good stories are
worth sharing.
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