Books by Trey Malicoat, M.S.
Sometimes a book gives you words for something you’ve felt for years. Sometimes it asks the question you’ve been avoiding. My books invite you to look at how you love, how you lead, and how you want to live.
A more intentional way to live and love
You don’t have to read these in order. Start with the part of your life asking for your attention: closeness, partnership, personal responsibility, or what comes next.
Combined book + workbook · 429 pages
For reading and reflecting together
The Sacred Path to Lasting Love brings the relationship book and guided workbook together in one volume.
The 11 Vows of
For a deeper connection
When you want more than being together. You want to feel known.
Companion workbook
For putting reflection into practice
When you’re ready to spend time with the questions, not just read past them.
The 11 Vows of
For love through real life
When everyday demands have started to crowd out the relationship.
The 11 Vows of
For love without losing yourself
When you want to care deeply without abandoning yourself.
The 11 Vows of
For closeness that feels safer
When part of you wants connection and another part wants to pull away.
The 11 Vows of
For your next chapter
When you want growing older to mean more than getting older.
The 11 Vows of
For a life that feels like yours
When you’re doing what’s expected but wondering what it’s all for.
A psychological novel
A novel of power, betrayal, restraint, and the wars we build around our wounds.
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Why read the novel?
Through a story of a fractured partnership, explore the difference between justice and revenge, notice how fear shapes a workplace, and consider what it takes to choose restraint when you have the power to retaliate.
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He helped build the kingdom.
Then he was asked to disappear.
A seasoned strategist joins a young founder to build something larger than either could create alone. But as the company grows, the systems designed to strengthen it begin to threaten the person who needs to remain at its center.
When the partnership fractures, the damage reaches far beyond two people. Employees learn to watch the emotional weather. Family members become protectors. Loyalty begins to look like silence.
Outside the kingdom, the man who has been removed knows its strengths, its secrets, and its fragile places. He discovers how much power he could use. And how deliberately he must choose what to do with it.
The Queen Has No Friends explores the seductive line between justice and revenge, and the cost of becoming someone you no longer recognize in order to win.
“The throne does not create power. It reveals what a person is willing to sacrifice in order to remain seated.”
From The Queen Has No Friends
A cautionary tale for a business in transition
The systems meant to strengthen this company threaten the founder’s sense of control. Employees become cautious. A fractured partnership becomes a test of how power will be used. The novel makes room to examine these pressures before they shape your own decisions.
As your business introduces AI and automation, ask: Who may feel less needed? Where is authority confused with personal worth? Can people speak honestly about what is changing? What will keep human connection at the center of the new way of working?
The Cost of Standing Still carries these questions into a larger business transition: automation does the heavy lifting, while people find new purpose in connecting, creating, and collaborating.
Explore the audience journeyRead an excerpt
PROLOGUEThe opening of
The Queen Has No Friends
I did not call her.
That sounds less significant than it was.
There were nights when her number sat three touches away from my thumb and every part of me wanted the relief of confrontation. I wanted to ask how a person could invite someone into a future, build beside him, call him partner, use his experience, rely on his judgment, accept his work, and then begin behaving as though the history between them were an administrative misunderstanding that could be corrected by an attorney.
I wanted answers.
More than that, I wanted recognition.
There is a primitive desperation in being misrepresented by someone who once knew you intimately. It is not enough to know your own truth. You want the person rewriting it to stop.
I did not call.
Excerpt © 2026 Trey Malicoat, M.S. All rights reserved.
The novel
Discover The Queen Has No Friends. Bring its questions about fear, control, and the courage to adapt into your next leadership conversation.
Restoration Press · Denver, Colorado
First edition · Paperback ISBN 979-8-9941559-2-9