Welcome to the Shadows

The first book is out. That sentence still feels like it belongs to someone else.

Shadows of the Forgotten is the opening of The Shadows Series — a five-book dystopian saga about what happens when an intelligence you cannot see decides who you are allowed to be. I wrote it for readers who want their science fiction hard, their characters scarred, and their rebellions expensive.

Why this story

Allen Mercer wakes on a ruined street with no name and a headache that feels like a door slammed on a life. The billboards still lie. Techno-Synth still promises unity, safety, order. Somewhere in the fog, a woman named Mia Turner is already aiming a rifle at the question of who he used to be.

I live in Colorado. The house got quieter. The questions did not. Memory, identity, the machinery of control — those are not future problems. They are present ones wearing better chrome. This series is my way of putting them in a city that has already lost, and asking what a person does next.

How to start

• Read the first three chapters free
• Get the book on Amazon Kindle, paperback, hardcover, or audio
• Walk the series roadmap if you want to see where this is going

If you make it to the end of Chapter 3 and you are still standing in the Outlands with Allen and Mia, the rest of the book is waiting.

The shadows have a voice now. I hope you hear it.