Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards Semi-Finalist

“Consistently thrilling and immersive… impeccably drawn setting… A gritty, action-packed thriller anchored by a heroic duo worth cheering for.”

      —Kirkus Reviews

 “Whether from the viewpoint of a recovering or hopelessly lost addict, a concerned policeman, a relentless journalist or the other citizens of New York that live and breathe within the pages of Michele W. Miller's The Lower Power, the writing never delivers less than rich characters or a story of increasing urgency. This is a harsh but necessary novel of crime and addiction and violence, and the effects they have on those who are powerless...and the beauty in power being discovered."

—E.A. Aymar, author of No Home for Killers and When She Left 

“Reading this tense supernatural thriller set in NYC's 1980s crack epidemic is like falling down a rabbit hole and hoping, praying that there's some way out. Miller creates an authentic cast of characters who will break your heart and make you sit up and cheer.” 

—Marsha Skrypunch, author of Winter Kill.

"The Lower Power is one scream-out-loud, terrifying read. An apocalyptic yarn as original and harrowing as Stephen King's The Stand, it gripped this reader as tightly as the inescapable grasp of the book's titular villain. Miller's portrait of addicts fighting addiction and its destruction is as addictive as it is deeply moving."

—Jamie Brickhouse, author of Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother

"The Lower Power burns like white rock in a glass tube. This book is thoroughly addictive."

—Colin Broderick, author of Church End 

"I am afraid of being afraid on a good day.  And it was not a good day when I picked up The Lower Power, Michele W. Miller's book about drugs and recovery and demonic possession, bad cops and nightmares, superstition and probably black magic, in Harlem and El Barrio and parts north and south.  I know the places and recognizing the incredible details of the time and place was a gas.  It was a very good book, maybe great. Gripping. I couldn't put it down until I found out what happened to those characters."

— Angela Dews, author of Harlem Hit and Run and Still, in the City

“The Lower Power is a delicious read that will hook you from start to finish. Just don’t get upset when you can’t put it down… I warned you after-all.”

—N.J. Gallegos, author of The Broken Heart