The Laws of Inheritance

Darren Trevor is only five days away from his twenty-fifth birthday when he feels that something is wrong. Something in his body. Something unnatural. The weird thing is, his father, Bryan Trevor, also died from a mysterious illness on the day he turned twenty-five. Could it have anything to do with the years that Bryan spent in the military after the Gulf War—years unaccounted for, with strange and lasting consequences?

The clock is ticking as Darren tries to discover what’s happening to him—and what happened to his father—before it’s too late.

Matthew Cole Levine is a novelist, screenwriter, and film critic based in St. Paul, Minnesota. His debut novel, Hollow, was published by Unsolicited Press in 2022. His film writing has been published by Found Footage Magazine, the Walker Art Center, the British Film Institute, Colpa Press, and elsewhere. The Laws of Inheritance is his second novel.