ACTIVE
EDITING
Sci-Fi. Single POV. First book in a trilogy.
Twelve years ago, Isaac Rhodes avenged his son’s death by killing the ‘gods’, enabling the oppressive Authority to seize control. Now, he numbs his grief with alcohol, hiding from their relentless AI enforcers. But his solitary life shatters when he impulsively rescues Skye, a mute nine-year-old girl with an inhuman aptitude for learning.
When elite operatives hunt her down, Isaac is plunged into a galaxy-spanning struggle against the Authority, burdened with a new co-pilot who attracts nothing but trouble. After an accidental reunion with his ex-wife and former crew leads to the destruction of their ship, they coerce Isaac into completing their dissident mission. Only one catch—their plan to infiltrate the Authority’s AI network feels a lot like suicide.
Isaac’s hands are full, juggling his spiralling alcoholism, a crew who loathe him, and a deep need to atone for his past. Then there’s Skye, whose transformation blurs the line between human and AI. Her emerging god-like powers have the potential to turn her into the Authority’s ultimate weapon. Protecting her offers Issac one last shot at redemption—and, just maybe, a chance to be a father again.
ACTIVE
EDITING AND REDRAFTING
Fantasy/Sci-Fi. 5 POVs. Book1 of a duology.
Reality has broken. Only they can fix it.
Star-crossed lovers.
A fallen hero.
A grieving mother.
And an insecure scholar-prince.
Five fractured lives.
One mission:
Survive the war tearing humanity apart.
Navigate broken reality inside the Fracture to find the fix.
Save the world.
SHELVED
EDITED AND POLISHED
Fantasy. Single POV. Book 1 of the Felberend series)
A thousand years ago, mankind went to war with nature and almost lost. Father Nature’s children, the Ainar, harnessed the wilderness and drove humanity to the brink of extinction. To protect his favourite creations, the King of the Gods bestowed humans with the ability to control the ether, a divine power they used to wipe out the Ainar. Only a handful survived and disappeared into the far north, leaving nature at the mercy of humanity.
Born into a dying world, Thais is the first hybrid between a human and an ainari. She could have been all-powerful—the first to wield both the ether and nature. Instead, she exists in chaos: drowning in sensory overstimulation, overwhelmed by human barbarity, and terrified of inheriting her father’s crown. When a witch sends Thais disturbing visions of her origins, she embarks on a dangerous journey through disease-riddled wilderness. Along the way, she must face the worst of humanity—not least her own. If she succeeds, she’ll find inner peace and belonging among her mother’s people. But failure risks unleashing the storm raging within her. A storm with the potential to heal the broken world or end it.
SHELVED
FIRST DRAFT COMPLETE
Fantasy/historical. 3 POVs. Standalone.
The Kingdom of Denari is dying. While a mysterious plague is decimating livestock and turning fields barren, the peasant class have risen up in bloody rebellion to demand their freedom. In the village of Farlight, a new lord arrives with his young wife, Seren. His downtrodden tenant farmers soon discover their new master is even more unreasonable and cruel than his predecessor.
Lady Seren always dreamed of being one of the first women scholars at the University in Tor Blaith. Instead, her father trades her hand in marriage for political connections and Seren must try to find purpose in her new life. But when she tries to help the village clerk find a cause for the blight ravaging the crops, she finds out the true extent of her new husband’s cruelty.
Esoch Askari, a former soldier turned skilled bladesmith, seeks revenge against Lord Rhosyn for the death of his wife and newborn son. With villagers pleading with him to help them join the rebellion and launch an assault on Lord Rhosyn, Esoch finds himself torn between revenge and his duty to his mute daughter.
Fe doesn’t believe her mother is ‘gone forever’, and when she meets an inhuman young woman with the power to control and revive nature, she embarks on a friendship that will change the lives of everyone in Farlight and far beyond.
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