A discovery can promise protection, relief or a second chance. It can also give someone power over the people who need it. That is where many of my novels find their tension: in the distance between what an invention makes possible and what its creators are entitled to do.
If you enjoy science-inspired fiction, there are several ways into my books. Choose the kind of human dilemma you would most like to follow.
Scientific mysteries, hidden knowledge and second-chance love
The Birds series follows scientist Anneliese Marchand and pilot Gabriel Renshaw through discoveries that test both their judgment and their trust in one another.
In Before the Birds Return, a hidden chamber beneath a Spanish cathedral is connected to an influenza mystery. Anneliese and Gabriel are drawn into an international crisis while confronting the possibility of rebuilding a love they once abandoned.
What the Earth Remembers continues their story. A mysterious optical plate leads towards the Swiss Alps, where an intriguing discovery meets the hopes of a family living with memory loss. The pressure to offer an answer becomes deeply personal. So does the responsibility to say what the evidence cannot yet support.
Read them in that order. Both books are available as PDF and EPUB downloads from their individual book pages.
Invention, war and the responsibility to protect
The Maksym Kovalenko series begins with a young Ukrainian maker whose skill with electronics acquires an urgent purpose during war.
The Unbroken Sky follows Maksym’s response to a broken world and the relationship he builds with Kateryna. Its inventions open speculative possibilities, while the characters still have to decide how to trust, what to protect and what they owe to other people.
Continue with The Second Horizon, which gives Kateryna’s story greater depth, then The Silent Horizon. The third novel turns towards a German winter power disaster and the danger of treating repeated accusations as independent evidence.
This is a starting point for readers who enjoy technology, political suspense and characters trying to prevent harm under pressure.
Perception, emotion and the limits of influence
The MARKED series approaches related questions through a family in Thailand. Narin’s unusual influence, Araya’s perceptions and their children’s inheritance bring compassion into contact with consent.
Begin with MARK. Continue with UNMARKED, where a technology intended to soothe suffering threatens the freedom to resist. TIGER carries the question of care into Arun’s encounter with a wounded tigress.
These stories may appeal if you are interested in the mind, relationships and the possibility that a benevolent intention can have consequences its owner refuses to see.
Where science ends and invention begins
A novelist can make an experiment succeed simply by writing that it does. That freedom makes fiction exciting. It also means that a convincing scene is not evidence.
The speculative discoveries, unusual abilities and imagined technologies in these novels should be read as inventions. Where the books borrow from established science, the distinction still matters: a real starting point does not make every development in the story a real possibility.
What fiction can offer is time inside a difficult choice. You can accompany someone who wants an answer, understand why they want it, and still notice the moment their hope runs ahead of what they know.
Browse the fiction collection or try the opening of The Unbroken Sky.
