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Books by Stuart Corlett

Fiction

Stories of love, belonging and responsibility, from Thailand and Shan State to Ukraine and imagined futures.

MARKED · Book 1

MARK

On the banks of the Mekong, a boy with a mysterious birthmark grows into a man whose influence challenges everything he believes about faith, freedom and love.

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MARKED · Book 2

UNMARKED

In northern Thailand, twins confront an emotional technology that can soothe suffering—and quietly make resistance impossible.

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MARKED · Book 3

TIGER

At a forest monastery, Arun's encounter with a wounded tigress draws him into a story of fear, empathy and the lives people share with animals.

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Ukraine · Maksym Kovalenko · Book 1

The Unbroken Sky

A young Ukrainian inventor begins turning the fragments of war into a vision of protection, as courage, love and conscience shape what he builds.

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Ukraine · Maksym Kovalenko · Book 2

The Second Horizon

Kateryna's story explores the experiences that shape her courage, her relationship with Maksym, and the difficult human work of protecting peace.

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Ukraine · Maksym Kovalenko · Book 3

The Silent Horizon

A winter power disaster in Germany draws Maksym and Kateryna into a race to test the evidence before suspicion becomes war. The third Maksym Kovalenko novel.

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Ukraine · Maksym Kovalenko · Book 4

The Common Sky

As Russia rebuilds after civil war, Maksym Kovalenko uncovers a struggle for control behind the promises of reconstruction. A political thriller about diplomacy, accountability and the possibility of a shared future.

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Birds · Book 1

Before the Birds Return

A discovery beneath a Spanish cathedral draws a scientist and an Alaskan pilot into an influenza mystery—and back towards the love they once abandoned.

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Birds · Book 2

What the Earth Remembers

Anneliese and Gabriel follow a mysterious optical plate into the Swiss Alps, where hidden knowledge and fragile memory test the boundary between hope and truth.

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Historical fiction

A Distant Light

A multigenerational Shan family story of home, exile, memory and return, set against more than a century of change in Myanmar.

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Birds: The End

One story. Two possible endings.

After What the Earth Remembers, the Birds series branches here. These books are alternative finales—not consecutive sequels. Choose either ending, or read both.

The hopeful ending

A future where love prevails

Birds: The End · Hopeful finale

Where Love Remains

Anneliese, Gabriel and their companions face a world under pressure. In this hopeful Birds finale, cooperation gives humanity a path toward peace.

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The darker ending

A future where love fails

Birds: The End · Darker finale

When Love Fails

Political pressure turns protection into a test of loyalty. In this darker Birds finale, Anneliese, Gabriel and their companions struggle to preserve love as civilization fragments.

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Masked · Book 1

Borrowed Silence

On San Francisco’s waterfront, Danny Mercer makes strangers laugh without saying a word. To his friends, he is generous and quietly dependable. To Elena, he is the man she loves—and a man whose silences she can no longer explain.

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Masked · Book 2

The Weight of Being Needed

Isabel Alvarez is the nurse who always finds another minute, the daughter watching over her father, the sister making arrangements. Everyone has a version of Isabel they can depend on. She is losing sight of the woman beneath them.

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Masked · Book 3

The Voice They Believed

Thomas Bell knows how to steady a room. As a minister, he offers comfort, certainty and the words people need to hear. But when a woman raises concerns about a powerful donor, reassurance becomes a dangerous habit.

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Masked · Book 4

The Face in the Window

Adrian Cole knows how to be looked at. As an actor and public figure, he understands the face a moment calls for—and how convincingly a photograph can suggest that everything is in place.

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Ukraine · Maksym Kovalenko · Book 5

The Quiet Centre

Threats against his family take Maksym to Mongolia, where Wing Chun and a slow reading of Sun Tzu test his resolve to protect the people he loves without abandoning love itself.

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