Books by Matthew C. Elliott
Stories Beyond the Impossible
From living comets and storm-torn worlds to a demon seeking redemption in Waco, these stories cross impossible places where loyalty, love, and survival reshape reality.
Six books. One complete journey.
The Complete Slate Widow Chronicles
Famous astronaut Slate Widow is taken from Earth by a living comet and thrown into the Black Reach, where ancient gateways, human worlds, relic technology, royal wars, and a dangerous found family are waiting. The six-book saga is complete.
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Enter the Reach
Book One
Slate Widow and the Reach
A famous astronaut enters a living comet and awakens a road between realities.
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Book Two
Slate Widow and the Nightwake Run
A dangerous crew, a hunted starship, and one impossible run pull Slate deeper into the Reach.
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Book Three
Slate Widow and the Crimson Gate
An ancient gate wakes, Kael's rare power turns dangerous, and the crew uncovers a threat built to cross realities.
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Book Four
Slate Widow and the Black Armada
War spreads across the Reach as betrayal, fleet battles, and a terrible discovery put Earth within an enemy's grasp.
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Book Five
Slate Widow and the Dead Stars
Beyond the dying gates, the Nightwake crew confronts dead stars, weaponized memory, and the truth behind the crossings.
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Book Six
Slate Widow and the Last Crossing
The road to Earth opens at last, forcing Slate and his found family into a final war for every world they call home.
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A crew worth crossing realities for
Adventure with a heartbeat
- A living comet and a road between realities
- The Nightwake crew, found family, friendship, and hard-won loyalty
- Alien relics, royal worlds, starship battles, humor, and romance
- One complete cosmic mystery told across six novels
A new standalone supernatural romance
Ashes & Aloe
Matt Crowley escaped Hell seeking redemption. Dr. Christine Hale—a compassionate Filipino American veterinarian in Waco—sees the wounded man beneath the fire. When three corrupted angels descend to erase him, Matt must turn the power he fears into a shield before Heaven and Hell destroy the first place that has ever felt like home.
Releases September 15, 2026.
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One complete standalone epic
A Standalone Epic: The Unheld Sky
Wrongfully exiled and cast into modern Chicago, a celestial warrior must survive a world without magic while living storms gather above it. Dangerous loyalties, slow-burn romance, and a war between worlds collide in one complete epic fantasy.
About the author
Matthew C. Elliott
Matthew C. Elliott writes cinematic science fiction and fantasy about fractured worlds, dangerous loyalties, found families, and impossible choices. He is the author of the six-book Slate Widow Chronicles, The Unheld Sky: Stormblade Exile, and Ashes & Aloe—a supernatural romance of redemption, corrupted angels, and dangerous love. His stories blend cosmic mystery, high-stakes action, friendship, romance, and characters who must decide what—and who—home truly means. When he is not sending astronauts through living comets, opening storms above Chicago, or unleashing demons in Waco, he is imagining the next world waiting beyond the impossible.
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