Malik’s Kingdom — Book One
Landing Home
Coming November 2026
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He had always sensed there was more to life than the world around him seemed able to see.
Yet life had taught him to trust fear and expect failure.
A series of unexplainable experiences begins to unravel everything Tyler thought he knew, shattering the certainty he had always clung to.
What if his searching had been the very thing keeping him from coming home?
The more he follows what can’t be explained, the more impossible it becomes to return to the life he once believed was real.
Along the way, his path becomes entwined with Bel’s—a fiercely independent young woman whose own life has been shaped by survival, loss and an unexpected invitation to begin again.
As each is drawn deeper into questions neither can answer, the familiar world around them begins to reveal something larger—something that seems to have been waiting for them all along.
And as those closest to them become part of the mystery, Tyler discovers that some journeys can only be taken without knowing how.
Landing Home is a quietly metaphysical novel, grounded in the texture of ordinary life. It moves the way memory does: through light and water, through thresholds crossed and returned to. It asks its questions gently, and trusts you to sit with them.
It is a complete story in itself, and the first doorway into a larger world.
Where to find Landing Home
All editions become available together on publication day — 15 November 2026: paperback, Kindle (and Kindle Unlimited), and signed copies direct from Craig.
Paperback
Available through Amazon and selected booksellers from 15 November 2026.
Available 15 November 2026Signed Paperback
A signed copy of Landing Home, sent directly from Craig — available from 15 November 2026.
Available 15 November 2026Kindle eBook
Available on Amazon from 15 November 2026.Also available with Kindle Unlimited.
Available 15 November 2026Book details
Landing Home
Malik’s Kingdom — Book One
Craig Goddard
15 November 2026
Paperback / eBookHardcover edition planned
Paperback: 978-1-7646542-0-3eBook: 978-1-7646542-1-0
Goddard Publishing
250 pages
Reflowable eBook edition
Malik’s Kingdom
Landing Home opens Malik’s Kingdom — a series that will unfold over time, each book a doorway into the same world seen from a new threshold.
More stories are already finding their way into the world. You’ll hear of them here, and in Craig’s Letters, as they arrive.
Behind the story
Every book carries a longer story than the one on its pages. When you’re ready, that story continues in the Journal — reflections, early notes, and photographs from the world around the writing.
If Landing Home speaks to you, there are quiet ways to stay close to the world it belongs to — its next stories, the reflections around them, and word of where they’ll appear.