Oliver Ahn Books https://oliverahn.com/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:45:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://oliverahn.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/cropped-logo-32x32.png Oliver Ahn Books https://oliverahn.com/ 32 32 Meemaw Started a Meal-Prep Empire From the County Jail: A Dark Comedy About Hustle, Betrayal, and Sunday Dinner https://oliverahn.com/meemaw-meal-prep-empire-county-jail/ https://oliverahn.com/meemaw-meal-prep-empire-county-jail/#respond Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:45:06 +0000 https://oliverahn.com/?p=312 Darlene “Meemaw” Puckett is seventy-one years old, and the only reason she is sitting in the Muscadine County Detention Center is that a man got between her and her church’s Thanksgiving turkeys. She asked him to put them back. He declined. So she made her point with a nine-pound spiral-cut ham. The turkeys were recovered, […]

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Darlene “Meemaw” Puckett is seventy-one years old, and the only reason she is sitting in the Muscadine County Detention Center is that a man got between her and her church’s Thanksgiving turkeys. She asked him to put them back. He declined. So she made her point with a nine-pound spiral-cut ham. The turkeys were recovered, the families were fed, and the judge, who had clearly never gone hungry a day in his life, gave her ninety days anyway.

Four hours into her sentence, they hand Meemaw a lunch tray, and what is on that tray changes everything. Because Meemaw has never once in her life let bad food go unanswered, and Pod C is full of women who have not tasted a real meal since the day they were sentenced. All she needs is a hot plate, a supply chain, and a correctional officer who misses his grandmother. She has all three by Friday.

What starts as one traded plate of smothered pork becomes something nobody in that building has ever seen. A menu. Sunday dinners with a two-week waiting list. A smuggling route that runs through the chapel, a crew that would go to war for her, and a homesick young guard turned quartermaster who cries every time he tastes his grandmother’s cooking again. Within a month the whole pod is calling Meemaw the warden instead of the actual warden, and the actual warden has noticed.

Then it all gets bigger than the walls. A grandson posts a video, a blogger runs with it, and overnight Meemaw becomes the Jailhouse Meemaw, an internet folk hero with a GoFundMe, a television producer, and a county that suddenly wants to take the credit. But fame is a double-edged plate, because Big Sheila Dukes ran the loan racket in Pod C long before Meemaw arrived, and Sheila has finally found the one thing that can bring the old woman down: not a fight she can win, but a scandal she can start.

When forty women hit the floor at once the night before the cameras are set to arrive, the whole beautiful thing Meemaw built goes up in flames, and she is left with a stripped bunk, a scattered crew, and a name in ruins. What she does next, with nothing left to lose and a release date closing in fast, is the kind of last supper this county will be talking about for years.

Meemaw Started a Meal-Prep Empire From the County Jail is a fast, funny, deeply Southern comedy about hustle, betrayal, mercy, and the one thing no institution can ever take from you, which is knowing exactly how much seasoning is enough. It is full of outrageous characters, escalating chaos, and a grandmother who absolutely refuses to behave.

Available now on Amazon, and free to read in Kindle Unlimited. Pull up a chair. Meemaw saved you a plate.

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We’re Too Broke to Hate Each Other: A Corporate-Dystopian Comedy https://oliverahn.com/were-too-broke-to-hate-each-other/ https://oliverahn.com/were-too-broke-to-hate-each-other/#respond Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:51:58 +0000 https://oliverahn.com/?p=301 Wendy Wennigan is forty-two, exhausted, and one rent increase away from total disaster. Then she throws a frozen hash brown. Within minutes, FaceTok has transformed her worst moment into a national culture war. Overnight Wendy is somehow both a working-class hero and a dangerous extremist — while Burger Emperor quietly spins the whole scandal into […]

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Wendy Wennigan is forty-two, exhausted, and one rent increase away from total disaster.

Then she throws a frozen hash brown.

Within minutes, FaceTok has transformed her worst moment into a national culture war. Overnight Wendy is somehow both a working-class hero and a dangerous extremist — while Burger Emperor quietly spins the whole scandal into a limited-time breakfast promotion.

But here’s the thing about the viral video: it starts after the real argument did. And when Wendy digs into who profited from her humiliation, she finds something worse than a bad day. The same handful of corporations own the platforms, the products, the politicians, the outrage campaigns, and the cultural identities keeping everyone at each other’s throats. The hate is the product. And business is booming.

So Wendy stops apologizing and starts organizing. She falls in with a gloriously unlikely crew of the equally exploited: a mechanic at war with disposable cars, a musician trapped in the gig economy, a creator whose platform literally claims ownership of her body, a teenage hacker with a Bluetooth pregnancy test, and one heavily armed grandmother. Together they set out to expose the machinery behind the country’s manufactured hatred.

Their rebellion runs on missing footage, shared bills, illegal tomatoes, community markets, broken algorithms, and one radical, dangerous discovery: the people they were trained to fear are just as tired and just as broke as they are.

We’re Too Broke to Hate Each Other is a fast, outrageous corporate-dystopian comedy about subscription life, social-media manipulation, economic exhaustion, and what happens when ordinary people finally stop shouting long enough to compare notes. It’s the funniest book you’ll read about being completely broke — and the angriest one that still makes you laugh.

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Meet Cancelled Karen Gets Her Revenge https://oliverahn.com/meet-cancelled-karen-gets-her-revenge/ https://oliverahn.com/meet-cancelled-karen-gets-her-revenge/#respond Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:10:22 +0000 https://oliverahn.com/?p=291 One cold latte. One edited video. Millions of strangers ready to judge. Meet Karen Cavanaugh, the newest unhinged heroine from Oliver Ahn Books.

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One cold latte. One edited video. Millions of strangers ready to judge.

Karen Cavanaugh only wanted a vanilla oat latte.

Unfortunately, the coffee-shop line took forever. When Karen finally reached the counter, the barista acted as though taking her order were an unreasonable personal favor.

Then nobody called her name.

Karen eventually discovered her cold drink sitting on the counter. She complained—and she had a valid reason to complain.

That was when the phones came out.

The employees recorded Karen getting angry, edited away everything that caused her reaction, and uploaded the meltdown. Before Karen could explain what really happened, she had become the internet’s newest villain.

Coffee Shop Karen was born.

By lunchtime, Karen had lost her job, her gym membership, her privacy, and the right to visit a bait shop she had never heard of.

The internet had seen a few seconds of her life and decided it knew everything about her.

Karen Gets Angry

Cancelled Karen Gets Her Revenge is an outrageous satire about online outrage, missing context, fake apologies, influencer scams, and the strange modern belief that recording someone automatically makes you the innocent person in the story.

Karen soon discovers that her public humiliation was not an accident. The barista who filmed her has built an entire business around provoking people, editing their reactions, and turning their worst moments into profitable content.

That is when Karen decides to fight back.

She is joined by Roach, a coworker who can find almost anyone online, and Helen, Karen’s seventy-year-old mother, who carries an unusually heavy purse and refuses to explain what is inside it.

Together, they create the Department of Manners.

The Department of Manners

Their mission sounds simple: find the missing context and expose the people profiting from manufactured outrage.

It does not remain simple for long.

Karen begins confronting dishonest influencers, defending mistreated workers, moving illegally parked delivery vans, and accidentally becoming the exact kind of viral celebrity she despises.

One video makes her a villain. The next makes her a hero.

Karen has not changed. Only the camera angle has.

As her audience grows, thousands of strangers begin asking Karen to punish anyone who has inconvenienced them. Complaints arrive about landlords, grocery stores, cold-handed dentists, missing ranch dressing, and a bitter custody dispute involving a rotisserie chicken.

Karen wanted the truth. The internet wants entertainment.

When the Department of Manners makes a terrible mistake, Karen must face an uncomfortable possibility: she may be helping to operate the same outrage machine that destroyed her.

Why I Wrote This Book

We see viral confrontations every day. A video starts with someone already angry. We watch fifteen seconds, choose a side, and decide what kind of person we are looking at.

But what happened before the recording started?

Was the angry person provoked? Was the clip edited? Is the frightened person behind the camera actually the one who created the confrontation?

Sometimes the person yelling really is wrong. Sometimes everyone is wrong. Sometimes the internet is watching the final thirty seconds of a forty-minute disaster.

Cancelled Karen Gets Her Revenge takes that question and pushes it into a completely unhinged comedy filled with coffee, public meltdowns, fake victimhood, questionable investigations, weaponized smartphones, and one unforgettable artificial chest muscle.

Karen is angry, stubborn, flawed, and frequently one bad decision away from arrest.

She may also have a point.

Coming from Oliver Ahn Books

Cancelled Karen Gets Her Revenge is written by Oliver Ahn and published by Oliver Ahn Books.

If you enjoy outrageous adult comedies, satirical characters, terrible decisions, and stories that proudly misbehave, this one is for you.

Before you judge Karen, ask yourself one question:

What happened before the camera started?

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Lettuce-Eating Lucy Gets the Squirts: An Outrageous Wellness-Influencer Comedy https://oliverahn.com/lettuce-eating-lucy-gets-the-squirts/ https://oliverahn.com/lettuce-eating-lucy-gets-the-squirts/#respond Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:56:14 +0000 https://oliverahn.com/?p=280 She wanted a hot-girl salad. She got a gastrointestinal reckoning. After a career-ending incident involving a rotisserie chicken gets her fired from the Piggly Basket, Lucy Lou LaRue does what any self-respecting woman at rock bottom would do: she reinvents herself as a clean-eating wellness influencer. Her glow-up begins with three bowls of suspiciously warm […]

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She wanted a hot-girl salad. She got a gastrointestinal reckoning.

After a career-ending incident involving a rotisserie chicken gets her fired from the Piggly Basket, Lucy Lou LaRue does what any self-respecting woman at rock bottom would do: she reinvents herself as a clean-eating wellness influencer. Her glow-up begins with three bowls of suspiciously warm romaine bought off a roadside produce truck.

It does not go well.

What follows is a viral pageant disaster, a countywide bathroom shortage, a golden portable toilet, and a full-blown investigation into the terrifying corporate power of Big Lettuce. Because when Lucy realizes a produce company may have knowingly shipped contaminated greens, she stops running to the bathroom and starts fighting back.

She assembles a crew: her ride-or-die best friend Tater, an intimidating retired plumber, and a trailer-park manager who charges money for everything — emergencies included. Together they steal twelve portable toilets, infiltrate a refrigerated warehouse disguised as heads of lettuce, and chase a corrupt mayor through town inside a runaway golden throne.

Lettuce-Eating Lucy Gets the Squirts is an outrageous adult comedy about wellness influencers, corporate corruption, public restrooms, and one woman’s absolute refusal to suffer quietly. It is gross, it is gleeful, and it is exactly as unhinged as the title promises.

Romaine calm and find a bathroom.

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Honey’s Happy Ending Hide-A-Way: A Southern Erotic Comedy of Secrets and Confessions https://oliverahn.com/honeys-happy-ending-hide-a-way/ https://oliverahn.com/honeys-happy-ending-hide-a-way/#respond Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:32:05 +0000 https://oliverahn.com/?p=276 Honey Belle Hargrove once dreamed of becoming a psychologist. Life, as it tends to do, had other plans. These days she runs Honey’s Happy Ending Hide-A-Way, an unconventional little business wedged into a crumbling Tennessee strip mall — right between Big Earl’s smoke shop and a lawyer who specializes in “other unfortunate developments.” It is […]

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Honey Belle Hargrove once dreamed of becoming a psychologist. Life, as it tends to do, had other plans.

These days she runs Honey’s Happy Ending Hide-A-Way, an unconventional little business wedged into a crumbling Tennessee strip mall — right between Big Earl’s smoke shop and a lawyer who specializes in “other unfortunate developments.” It is not the career she pictured. It might, however, be the one she was born for.

Because every man who walks through Honey’s door brings a lot more than money. There’s the bored husband covering up a tractor-related lie. The exhausted father who just wants ten uninterrupted minutes. The executive who needs, for once, to let someone else take control. The deacon carrying a Bible in one hand and a peach cobbler in the other. And the lonely widower who arrives with a genuinely homicidal chicken.

They come to Honey with desires, secrets, insecurities, oddly specific requests, and some of the most catastrophic parking skills in the state of Tennessee. She gives them pleasure — but what most of them are really after is permission to finally tell the truth.

Outrageous, explicit, unexpectedly tender, and gloriously unhinged, Honey’s Happy Ending Hide-A-Way is a Southern erotic comedy about loneliness, shame, marriage, grief, desire, and the peculiar things people confess when someone finally sits down and listens. You’ll laugh, you’ll blush, and — against all odds — you might get a little misty over a woman, a strip mall, and one very angry bird.

For adult readers only. Contains explicit sexual content, strong language, sex-work themes, and unconventional adult desires. All sexual characters are consenting adults.

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Tiffany Joe, the Trailer Park Trick, and Her Ozempic Adventures: A Dark Comedy About Hustle, Hips, and the Skinny Shot https://oliverahn.com/tiffany-joe-trailer-park-trick-ozempic-adventures/ https://oliverahn.com/tiffany-joe-trailer-park-trick-ozempic-adventures/#respond Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:45:59 +0000 https://oliverahn.com/?p=204 Tiffany Joe found salvation inside a repossessed mini-fridge on the hottest Saturday in June. She paid Miss Velma fifteen dollars for it, dragged it back to Lot 14, and discovered that the previous owner (an evicted gentleman known locally as Pentecostal Brandon) had hidden twelve pens of Ozempic behind the back panel. Tiffany did not […]

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Tiffany Joe found salvation inside a repossessed mini-fridge on the hottest Saturday in June. She paid Miss Velma fifteen dollars for it, dragged it back to Lot 14, and discovered that the previous owner (an evicted gentleman known locally as Pentecostal Brandon) had hidden twelve pens of Ozempic behind the back panel. Tiffany did not know much about diabetes medication. She knew that people online were paying hundreds of dollars for “the skinny shot,” and that a woman with twelve pens and no scruples was, technically, sitting on a business.

That is how the Skinny Syndicate was born.

At Shady Acres Mobile Home Community, word travels faster than the truth and roughly as accurately. Within days, Tiffany and her chain-smoking best friend Misty Dawn are running weight-loss appointments out of a trailer, taking payment in cash, CareCredit, and the occasional vape cartridge. The demand is biblical. So is the supply problem, because twelve pens do not last forever, and the only person who can get more is Crystal Methany, a woman in a white fur coat who arrives in a stolen golf cart and smells money the way other people smell rain coming.

Then Tiffany gets a BBL, catches her reflection, and Misty informs her she looks like “a lowercase d with legs.” Most people would take offense. Tiffany takes it to market. The lowercase d becomes a brand, then a movement, then a merch empire (T-shirts, a recovery fund, a premium tier) built on one unshakable slogan: the d stands for demand.

From there it only escalates. There are church-van appointments and a church-van sting. There is a pharmacist making house calls, a plastic surgeon called Doc Hollywood, counterfeit pens, a revival night, and Detective Boone, who is absolutely certain he can bring the whole operation down and absolutely unprepared for what running it down actually requires. By the time Tiffany opens a full wellness center, the lowercase d has gone international and the law is closing in from every direction that matters.

It all comes down to one last exit: a plastic flamingo, a golf cart doing fourteen miles per hour, Miss Velma at the wheel with three passports of questionable ownership, and a parking barrier coming down. Whether Tiffany Joe gets out clean is a matter best discovered in person.

Tiffany Joe, the Trailer Park Trick, and Her Ozempic Adventures is a fast, filthy, laugh-out-loud satire about hustle culture, weight-loss mania, and the American genius for turning any disaster into a brand. It is full of outrageous characters, escalating chaos, and decisions that arrive, as always, without adult supervision.

Available now on Amazon, and free to read in Kindle Unlimited. Pull up a lawn chair at Shady Acres. Tiffany Joe is open for business.

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The World Cup Came to the Trailer Park: Soccer, Beer, and Total Chaos at Sunshine Palms https://oliverahn.com/world-cup-came-to-the-trailer-park/ https://oliverahn.com/world-cup-came-to-the-trailer-park/#respond Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:14:20 +0000 https://oliverahn.com/?p=200 Darryl Jenkins wasn’t looking for trouble. He was standing in a Florida gas station holding a questionable breakfast burrito when the cashier informed him he’d won a raffle he didn’t remember entering. The prize: a 98-inch television roughly the size of a studio apartment, with “WORLD CUP VIEWING EXPERIENCE” taped to the box. Darryl doesn’t […]

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Darryl Jenkins wasn’t looking for trouble. He was standing in a Florida gas station holding a questionable breakfast burrito when the cashier informed him he’d won a raffle he didn’t remember entering. The prize: a 98-inch television roughly the size of a studio apartment, with “WORLD CUP VIEWING EXPERIENCE” taped to the box.

Darryl doesn’t even watch soccer. It doesn’t matter. In Sunshine Palms Trailer Park, a television that size isn’t a television — it’s an event. Before he can unload the truck, Big Ronnie has already created a Facebook event, three hundred people have marked “Interested,” and somebody has nailed a plywood sign to a palm tree declaring the park WORLD CUP HEADQUARTERS.

Nobody at Sunshine Palms knows the rules. Nobody knows a single player. Nobody — and this becomes important — can explain offsides. None of that stops the entire park from becoming soccer experts in forty-eight hours. Kyle paints his trailer a violent shade of Brazil yellow (and misspells it two different ways on his own chest). Trevor switches national loyalties every morning based on who won yesterday. And Big Ronnie opens a betting operation with odds based entirely on vibes — Brazil favored because he likes the uniforms, France docked because he once argued with a French tourist.

Then the local news shows up, the clip goes viral, and the world comes to the trailer park. Nigel, a mild English accountant, stops by to watch one match and accidentally becomes the park’s official soccer translator. Pierre, a Frenchman who has never approved of anything, finds he physically cannot leave. Actual Brazilian and Argentine families arrive after seeing the videos online. And through it all wanders a goat that belongs to no one, judges everyone, and is usually right.

What starts as culture clash — fake British accents, kilts worn backwards, an international incident over chili dogs — slowly turns into something nobody expected: real friendship. The Brazilians teach Kyle penalty kicks. Nigel buys a lawn chair, then four more. Pierre starts saying “y’all” and denies it for twenty minutes. The rivalry sections dissolve into one loud, ridiculous neighborhood the residents christen the United Nations of Bad Decisions.

And then the black SUV pulls in. Big Ronnie’s shoebox empire, it turns out, owes sixty-three thousand dollars — a number the entire park combined could not produce on its best day. Now the strange little international family that soccer accidentally built has one championship match, one last watch party, and one very profitable goat to save Big Ronnie, the park, and each other.

The World Cup Came to the Trailer Park is a fast, laugh-out-loud comedy about belonging — about how the world’s biggest sporting event matters a lot less than the people you end up watching it with. It’s got outrageous characters, escalating chaos, genuine heart, and a solemn promise that by the last page, absolutely no one will understand offsides.

🎉 Free on Kindle, July 17–19! For three days only, you can grab the ebook at no cost on Amazon. Pull up a lawn chair — Sunshine Palms is expecting you.

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Inside Bonded to the Alien Navigator: Love, Survival, and a Living World Among the Stars https://oliverahn.com/bonded-to-the-alien-navigator-scifi-romance/ https://oliverahn.com/bonded-to-the-alien-navigator-scifi-romance/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:27:37 +0000 https://oliverahn.com/?p=196 What happens when a spaceship crashes into something that was never a planet at all? That question became the foundation of Bonded to the Alien Navigator: Heart of the Starbeast, the first novel in the Starbeast Bonds series. The story follows Mara Venn, a human engineer traveling aboard the colony ship Odyssey. Mara expects to […]

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What happens when a spaceship crashes into something that was never a planet at all?

That question became the foundation of Bonded to the Alien Navigator: Heart of the Starbeast, the first novel in the Starbeast Bonds series.

The story follows Mara Venn, a human engineer traveling aboard the colony ship Odyssey. Mara expects to help build a settlement on a distant world. Instead, the ship is pulled off course and crashes inside the Vael, a colossal living creature drifting through space.

The Vael is more than an enormous animal. It is a living world with organs the size of cities, biological passageways, defensive creatures, ancestral memories, and an entire alien civilization living between its hearts.

Unfortunately, it also believes the human survivors are an infection.

An Engineer Who Refuses to Quit

Mara is capable, sarcastic, vulgar, and stubbornly determined to save everyone she can. She responds to terror by working, and she uses dark humor to keep painful emotions at a distance.

After the crash, fifty-three survivors depend on her. Their ship is being digested, their supplies are limited, and the environment around them is learning how to destroy foreign organisms more efficiently.

Mara cannot solve the problem alone.

Her only hope is Cael Orun, an alien navigator biologically connected to the Vael.

A Bond That Was Never Supposed to Become Intimate

Cael can communicate with the Vael and manipulate its living environment. He is controlled, disciplined, and devoted to protecting his people. Mara finds him arrogant. Cael finds her reckless.

They are both correct.

To prevent the Vael from consuming the humans, Mara and Cael form an emergency psychic bond. The connection marks the survivors as protected, but it also allows Mara and Cael to experience each other’s emotions, physical reactions, and memories.

Neither of them is prepared for that level of intimacy.

Attraction becomes impossible to conceal. So does grief. Every boundary they construct is tested by a connection that exposes what they want, what they fear, and what they are desperate to hide.

The relationship is passionate and sexually charged, but the heart of it is choice. Mara and Cael must learn that intimacy does not require ownership and that love should not erase the individuals experiencing it.

A Romance Inside a Living Starship

The Vael is not simply the story’s setting. It is one of its central characters.

Its walls respond to emotion. Its corridors change according to intention. It carries the memories of generations within its nervous system, and it has developed its own understanding of the people living inside it.

The humans initially see the Vael as a monster that swallowed them. Cael’s people see it as their home and almost as a god. Both perspectives are incomplete.

As Mara explores the creature, she discovers that the Odyssey did not crash by accident. An ancient machine is buried inside the Vael, and its original purpose threatens everyone living within the creature.

Saving the survivors will require more than repairing the damage caused by the ship. Mara and Cael must uncover the truth about the Vael’s history, challenge the traditions governing Cael’s civilization, and decide whether survival means resisting change or choosing a different kind of transformation.

More Than an Alien Love Story

At its center, Bonded to the Alien Navigator is a romance between two stubborn people from radically different worlds.

It is also a story about grief, identity, consent, found family, and the terrifying vulnerability of allowing another person to know you completely.

Mara believes every problem can be repaired if she works hard enough. Cael has spent his life serving a creature that preserves memories after death, forcing him to question whether a collection of memories can ever replace the person who created them.

Their bond makes that question deeply personal. If their connection grows too powerful, where does Mara end and Cael begin? Can two people share everything without losing themselves?

The answer they discover becomes the emotional foundation of the story: love is not becoming one indistinguishable person. It is remaining two people who repeatedly choose the same bridge.

What Readers Can Expect

Bonded to the Alien Navigator includes:

  • A capable, sharp-tongued heroine
  • A powerful but emotionally thoughtful alien hero
  • Forced proximity
  • Psychic bonding
  • Culture clash
  • Survival adventure
  • A living spaceship
  • Found family
  • High heat and adult language
  • Strong consent and emotional intimacy
  • A dangerous interstellar mystery
  • A hard-won happily ever after

The novel begins with a catastrophic crash, but its real journey is about finding home somewhere impossible, and finding someone worth building that home with.

Welcome aboard the Vael.

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Ghost of Dicks Past: When Your Exes Come Back… Literally https://oliverahn.com/ghost-of-dicks-past/ https://oliverahn.com/ghost-of-dicks-past/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:00:20 +0000 https://oliverahn.com/?p=191 We’ve all had relationships we’d rather forget. The one who still owes you money. The one who borrowed your favorite hoodie and mysteriously “lost” it. The one who texted, “We need to talk,” and somehow turned that into a three-hour hostage negotiation at Applebee’s. But what if your exes didn’t just linger in your memories? […]

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We’ve all had relationships we’d rather forget.

The one who still owes you money.

The one who borrowed your favorite hoodie and mysteriously “lost” it.

The one who texted, “We need to talk,” and somehow turned that into a three-hour hostage negotiation at Applebee’s.

But what if your exes didn’t just linger in your memories?

What if they came back as ghosts?

That’s the twisted premise behind Ghost of Dicks Past, the latest dark comedy from Oliver Ahn.

Every Bad Decision Leaves Something Behind

Lola LaRue has spent years making a living by charming lonely men out of their money. A smile here. A fake love story there. A missing Rolex. A mysteriously empty wallet.

Business has been good.

Until one night the ghosts arrive.

Not to drag her to hell.

Not to scare her.

To make her remember.

One by one, the men she conned force Lola to relive the moments that shaped her life. The charming criminal who taught her to hustle. The hopeless romantic who loved her anyway. The lonely man she treated like an ATM. The wealthy executive whose humiliation became legendary.

Each ghost carries a different story.

Each one remembers a different version of Lola.

A Dark Comedy With Heart

At first glance, Ghost of Dicks Past is outrageous.

There are awkward hotel rooms, ridiculous misunderstandings, questionable life choices, and more than a few moments that will make readers laugh out loud.

Beneath the comedy, though, is a story about guilt, regret, and the invisible trail every person leaves behind.

It’s about realizing that every con has a victim.

Every lie has consequences.

And sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

If You Like…

If your bookshelf includes authors who blend dark humor with flawed characters, sharp dialogue, and a little supernatural chaos, this novel was written with you in mind.

Expect:

  • Dark comedy
  • Supernatural twists
  • Crime and con artists
  • Character-driven storytelling
  • Ghosts with unfinished business
  • Unexpected emotional moments
  • Plenty of sarcasm

Ghosts Aren’t Always Scary

Sometimes they’re embarrassing.

Sometimes they’re heartbreaking.

Sometimes they remind you about the stamp collection you mocked twenty years ago.

And sometimes they’re exactly what you need.

Ghost of Dicks Past is a funny, heartfelt reminder that we all leave ghosts behind. The lucky ones get a chance to make things right before they become one themselves.

If you’re looking for a dark comedy that’s equal parts hilarious, emotional, and just a little unhinged, this might be your next favorite read.

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She Stole My Lottery Tickets, Exposed My Search History and Knifed My Blow-Up Doll https://oliverahn.com/she-stole-my-lottery-tickets-exposed-my-search-history-and-knifed-my-blow-up-doll/ https://oliverahn.com/she-stole-my-lottery-tickets-exposed-my-search-history-and-knifed-my-blow-up-doll/#respond Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:40:09 +0000 https://oliverahn.com/?p=173 Some breakups end with tears. Doug’s ended with a knife… lodged in Denise. Denise wasn’t his girlfriend. Denise was his inflatable emotional support companion. But after Crystal discovered Doug had secretly won the lottery, she didn’t just leave him. She stole the winning tickets, exposed years of embarrassingly questionable internet searches to the entire trailer […]

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Some breakups end with tears.

Doug’s ended with a knife… lodged in Denise.

Denise wasn’t his girlfriend. Denise was his inflatable emotional support companion. But after Crystal discovered Doug had secretly won the lottery, she didn’t just leave him. She stole the winning tickets, exposed years of embarrassingly questionable internet searches to the entire trailer park, and stabbed the only thing in his life that had never judged him.

Naturally, things got worse.

As Crystal burns through millions chasing fame, bad investments, and terrible life decisions, Doug discovers that sometimes losing everything is the only way to discover what actually matters. Along the way he’ll stumble into podcast fame, internet infamy, unlikely friendships, and one of the strangest revenge stories ever to come out of a Florida trailer park.

She Stole My Lottery Tickets, Exposed My Search History and Knifed My Blow-Up Doll is another completely unhinged Oliver Ahn comedy, blending outrageous situations with surprisingly heartfelt characters. It’s packed with absurd humor, unforgettable one-liners, small-town chaos, and enough trailer park drama to make your family reunion seem perfectly normal.

If you enjoy Carl Hiaasen, Christopher Moore, Tim Dorsey, or southern satire with equal parts ridiculousness and heart, this is a story you’ll want to add to your reading list.

Winning the lottery should’ve solved Doug’s problems.

Instead, it created brand-new ones.


Why You’ll Love This Book

  • Laugh-out-loud southern comedy
  • Florida trailer park absurdity
  • Lottery gone horribly wrong
  • Quirky, unforgettable characters
  • Dark humor with surprising heart
  • Fast-paced, bingeable novella
  • Perfect for fans of outrageous satire

Available Now

She Stole My Lottery Tickets, Exposed My Search History and Knifed My Blow-Up Doll is available now on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.

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