The Account

THE ACCOUNT follows the rise, unraveling, and reckoning of a man who mistook a well-kept secret for a well-lived life. In About Me, he becomes someone the world trusts completely. In Come Clean, journalist Charlotte Quinn starts pulling threads he was certain no one would find - and can't stop, even when the cost turns personal. In Reckoning, the trial he spent fifteen years avoiding finally arrives, in a Los Angeles courtroom where the distance between who he became and who he was closes for good.

Edward C. Distel writes fiction shaped by memory, exile, war, and the quiet lives history often forgets. Raised in a multilingual household and deeply influenced by the immigrant experience, his work explores loyalty, identity, survival, and the stories people carry in silence.

Drawn to both novels and short fiction, Distel believes the most powerful stories are often the most intimate. His writing blends literary realism with psychological depth, creating characters marked as much by what they cannot say as by what they do.

He prefers to let his characters speak for themselves.

These are his first published works, though far from his only stories.