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Signed copy of Mario Elías’ debut novel, Beloved Disciples, forthcoming from Amble Press (May 2026). Paperback, 320 pages. This book will ship after the publication date of 12 May 2026. You will be notified once the item has shipped. I’ll include a personal note with each order as well ;-) Thank you so much for the love and support—I really hope you enjoy this story as much as I did writing it.

“For Simón, the line between devotion & obsession blurs when grieving becomes its own form of worship.


Simón’s lover Albi dies unexpectedly, and Simón’s world shatters. Adrift in their Caribbean coastal town, he finds himself haunted by Albi’s presence at every turn.


As grief warps his sense of reality, memories of Albi feel more vivid than the present, threatening to consume him entirely. When his estranged Catholic mother reaches out, Simón must choose: remain faithful to a love that’s destroying him, or let go of Albi’s ghost and become the son his mother always wanted.


Beloved Disciples unfolds with the momentum of an opera, tracing a gay latine journey through cultural inheritance, survival, and the transformative power of queer love. It follows an outsider’s search for belonging in the world, his family, and his own fractured reality.”