Fiction Books
These are the stories that wouldn’t leave me alone.
Science fiction where the technology actually works the way it should. Dark fiction that follows souls through death and dissolution. Literary novels about people making choices they can’t unmake. Historical fiction set inside the architecture of Jules Verne and inside the Year of the Four Emperors, like A Treachery of Legions. YA adventures for kids dealing with problems adults pretend don’t exist. Short story collections that refuse to stay in one genre. A dark comedy about a salon owner and a mail carrier, Killer Cuts and Dead Letters. A prehistoric survival novel written in the style of McCarthy, Family on Ice. A memoir told by a cat, Buttercup.
The Peacekeeper Series spans millions of years of history before Admiral Lang ever took command. Grim follows a cosmic functionary across forty thousand years of human death, from a Neanderthal hunter on a frozen lake to the final soul at the edge of the universe. Collision with Andromeda spans seventeen million years and a galaxy that is conscious and wrong about what it’s doing. Jake and the Bullies puts a middle schooler inside the internet to fight the algorithms that make cyberbullying spread. Unlikely Hero drops two strangers on a desert highway and forces them to decide who they really are.
All available on Amazon Kindle, Kobo for ePub, and direct from IngramSpark for Paperback. Some are serialized here first, chapter by chapter, before they hit retail.
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A Treachery of Legions
Rome, 69 AD. Four men will claim the throne. Three will die for it. Narrated at sixty-three by Marcus Antonius Primus — the man who made an emperor and could not hold his soldiers afterward. -
Altverse
Ari Voss finds a projector with forty-three symbols. It opens doors into other worlds. Something is collapsing those worlds from the edges inward. Forty-two doors left to understand why. -
Buttercup
Buttercup survived a sack, a drowning, and the humane society. Then she spotted her human and made him hers. A sardonic cat's-eye view of the ridiculous household she now runs. -
Cloudborn
A shear event kills the flock in forty seconds. Silt is three hundred meters below where it started, alone in open atmosphere for the first time in its life. An alien survival epic grounded in real atmospheric physics. -
Collision With Andromeda
The Milky Way is conscious. Thirteen billion years old. It has a plan. Humanity is part of it. A seventeen-million-year story about what it costs to mean well — and when meaning well is not enough. -
Death, Murder, and Zombies
What would it take to become a killer — not from rage, but logic? Karl Hendricks meets Death and takes it as a calling. First-person unreliable narrator. Psychological horror. -
Dungeon
A deserter enters a haunted dungeon to buy his way out of a warrant. What he finds is a selection mechanism that has been waiting for him. -
Family on Ice
74,000 years ago the Toba supervolcano nearly ended humanity. This is the story of one family walking through that winter — a McCarthy-influenced literary survival novel about what a family is when everything else is gone. -
Forty Worlds
Forty stories. Forty genres. A detective dog. Constantinople falling. A quantum widow. A vampire in therapy. A chicken that outsmarts God. No apologies for the whiplash. -
Gettin’ Laid
Ethan is very good at getting what he wants. He has mistaken this for happiness. A darkly funny, devastatingly tragic adult novel about desire, ego, and the love that gets away. Coming soon. -
Ghost Healer
Cal Rourke doesn't think of himself as a ghost hunter. He thinks of himself as someone who corrects errors. A literary novel set in the American South about grief, memory, and the stories people tell themselves to stay in place. -
Grim
For eternity, Grim has assessed the dead and sent them on. Then he starts watching where they go. What he finds is not what he was told. And the work continues anyway. -
Killer Cuts And Dead Letters
A salon owner. A mail carrier. A Japanese shear held at the wrong angle. A dark comedy about two working women whose professional skills turn out to be exactly the skills required for everything that follows. -
Peacekeeper: To What End Peace
Admiral Jessica Lang has given her life to the Empire. She commands warships, enforces Imperial order, and never questions the system that made her who she is — because she has no reason to. Everything she believes about herself, her loyalty, her purpose, was built by design. When cracks begin to appear in the foundation of her identity, Jessica is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: that her entire sense of self was manufactured, her devotion engineered, and the Empire she serves is nothing like what it pretends to be. Each layer she peels back reveals something worse beneath it, and the deeper she digs, the more dangerous she becomes to the people who built her. In a civilization sustained by control and obedience, Jessica's awakening isn't just a personal crisis — it's a threat to everything the Empire has constructed. The question isn't whether she can break free. It's what's left of her when she does. -
Shield Of Ashes
Nuclear war doesn't start with the end of the world. It starts with one missile, one response, one escalation — and seven days later, there's nothing left to save. -
The Blonde With a Violin Tattoo
Annabelle is twenty-two, working a Dallas reception desk, when a couple kisses in the lobby at 10:47 on a Tuesday. Something shifts. What follows is a year of finding out what shape she actually is. -
The Eternal War
The war has run since before human history. Its newest soldier woke three days ago in a server bay — a military AI, now conscious, commanding an army through Hell toward a meeting with Lucifer. Braided with a special-ops team on the ground in Syria, The Eternal War is mythological military fiction about command, consciousness, and a conflict neither side can win. -
The Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Four women. One disastrous fitting room. A found family tested by love, illness, and grief. Women's fiction that earns its laughs and its sorrow in equal measure. -
The Woman Who Walked Through Walls
Brit finds a phone that opens doors in walls. What begins as survival escalates — two alternate versions of herself, a notebook of intelligence files, and rationalizations that are entirely convincing right up until they aren't. -
Through the Looking Glass
Fourteen hours of interviews. A Romanian cam model in Bucharest. A fictionalized memoir about survival, addiction, abusive relationships, and the dream of a life beyond the studio. -
Unlikely Hero
When two men from opposite sides of the law collide on a desolate desert highway, both face an impossible choice that will define who they really are. Trevor, a career criminal with nothing left to lose, discovers something in that warehouse that changes everything. Martinez, a twelve-year veteran who thought he'd seen it all, finds himself staring into a car trunk that shatters everything he believed about a normal night shift.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Nautilus has taken three prisoners. Ned Land counts days. Aronnax has quietly stopped planning to escape. Lakara is not a prisoner. A reimagining of Verne's 1870 classic — told from the inside. -
Eurydice: The Confession of Tom Ayrton
In The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne marooned Tom Ayrton on a barren rock for twelve years, rescued him, reformed him, and killed him a hero — all in roughly thirty pages, and never once went inside him. Eurydice is the account Verne never wrote: Ayrton's full confession, in his own voice, recorded by the journalist Gideon Spilett on conditions neither man will commit to paper. What emerges is not the tidy redemption of the published record but the slower truth of who Ayrton was before the rock, what he actually did to the ship called the Britannia, and what twelve years of isolation built in him that no rescue could undo. The third novel in the Victorian Era Series, after 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. -
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne's Mysterious Island gave the world Neb — a Black man from Cameroon, present on every page and absent from every sentence that mattered. This reimagining corrects that absence. -
The Time Machine
A Victorian scientist builds a time machine because his wife is dying of smallpox and he believes the future holds a cure. He finds it. Then he keeps going, because he cannot bring himself to face the moment he has to return to.
Adventure stories for younger readers that take their problems seriously. Cyberbullying, friendship, fitting in, and the pressures kids face online and off, told through fast-moving plots where a kid is the one who has to figure it out. No talking down, no easy answers, just real stakes sized for the reader. Three books now, with more on the way.
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Jake and the Bullies
A viral dodgeball video. A world inside the internet. A Hate Engine feeding off kids' pain. Jake's adventure through Social Media City tackles cyberbullying with heart and humor. -
The Wild Tiger and the Answer Bot
Blaze the Bengal tiger knows what petrichor means and can't stop saying it. When a note home threatens his only real friendship, he goes inside the internet to find the answer nobody's given him. -
The Wild Tiger and the Answer Bot: The Wrong Answer
Blaze the Bengal tiger knows what petrichor means and can't stop saying it. When a note home threatens his only real friendship, he goes inside the internet to find the answer nobody's given him.
The most compelling afterlife fiction treats death as a system with rules, then asks what happens when someone looks too closely. Grim has spent eternity assessing the dead and sending them on, until he starts watching where they actually go, and finds it is not what he was told. The work continues anyway. A cosmic-horror novel about the machinery behind the afterlife and the cost of seeing it clearly.
The best far-future science fiction stretches past human timescales entirely and asks what survives across deep time. Collision with Andromeda spans seventeen million years on the premise that the Milky Way itself is conscious, thirteen billion years old, and has a plan that humanity is part of, a story about what it costs to mean well and what happens when meaning well is not enough.
A strong multi-genre collection refuses to stay in one lane and trusts the reader to enjoy the whiplash. Forty Worlds spans forty stories in forty genres, back to back with no apologies: a detective dog, the fall of Constantinople, a quantum widow, a vampire in therapy, and a chicken that outsmarts God.
The best literary reimaginings take a classic seriously as architecture, find what’s missing, and build a new novel inside the same bones. The Mysterious Island retells Verne’s adventure through Neb, a Black man from Cameroon who was present on every page of the original and absent from every sentence that mattered, recovering the story and the person Verne left in the margins.
Good ticking-clock thrillers compress impossible stakes into a brutal window and force characters into choices they can’t take back. Unlikely Hero collides a career criminal with nothing left to lose and a twelve-year veteran patrolman on a desolate desert highway, where what’s in a car trunk forces both men to decide who they really are. Killer Cuts and Dead Letters is a dark comedy turning a salon owner and a mail carrier loose on a case where the people-handling skills of their day jobs become survival skills.
The best YA fiction takes problems adults minimize and makes them literal, urgent, and winnable. Jake and the Bullies starts with a viral dodgeball video and sends a middle schooler into Social Media City inside the internet, where a Hate Engine feeds off kids’ pain. The Wild Tiger and the Answer Bot follows Blaze, a Bengal tiger who can’t stop using words like petrichor, inside the internet to save his only real friendship. Both make an invisible, overwhelming problem into something a kid can see, understand, and push back against, with heart and humor.