Before Justin R. Pilar began bending time on the page, he chased meaning through music. Raised in small-town Iowa, his creative roots began beside his father’s stereo and evolved into years of songwriting and performing with his band, The Fourth Floor. That same instinct for rhythm and emotion later found its home in fiction, where melody became language, and stories became echoes of memory and time.

His debut novel, Echoes in Everly Manor, marks the beginning of The Anchor Point Series, a nine-book saga exploring grief, friendship, and the dangerous temptation of rewriting the past. The story follows a group of estranged friends bound by loss as they uncover the power and cost of altering time. For Justin, it’s not about building heroes, but portraying real people reacting to extraordinary events.

Each trilogy within the series unfolds in new time frames with new scenarios, each layered with consequences that ripple across the entire timeline. His approach blends grounded emotion with gothic atmosphere, always rooted in aesthetic realism: the belief that even the impossible should feel tangible.

When he’s not writing, Justin works for a national crane company and spends weekends as a wedding and event DJ, still finding ways to connect through sound. His passion for music lives on through companion Spotify soundtracks curated for each book, designed to mirror the tone and emotion of every chapter.

For Justin, success isn’t measured in sales, but in resonance. He writes to explore what people hold onto and what they’re willing to let go of when time itself begins to fray. Echoes in Everly Manor is only the beginning.