With one book completed and two on the way, there are two universes to explore: that of Senseless and of Supaku.

What is Senseless?

The Cold War didn’t end the way we know of it today. It ended in total annihilation, the world’s nations dead or dying by the atom bomb, with only a single city in the state of Washington survived because of one man’s precautionary leadership. With the Old World gone, the city began to rebuild, the people began to repopulate, and most importantly new laws were established. Above all the rest, there was one law created that should never be broken: the law of apathy, the law of emotionlessness. This law has been upheld by the use of a suppressant, the antisthesid, designed to rid humanity of its fatal flaw and end conflict interminably.

The first Senseless novel begins with Logan Ebliss, a typical citizen involved in a horrendous and near-fatal accident that puts him in the Hospital, where government agent Sapphira Lindsey discovers that the trauma changed him, triggering a violent anaphylactic reaction to the mandated suppressant. To hide this from the public, Logan is spirited away to a covert facility deep in the Alaskan tundra, where Sapphira and a man known only as “the Doctor” begin experimentation and Logan begins to discover the emotions he had been without his entire life.

This series is completed and is awaiting possible rework after I complete the follow-up sequel with the intent of publication. This novella remains private until then.

And Senseless 2?

Senseless 2 is the standalone sequel to Senseless, following Sapphira Lindsey a hundred and thirty years in the future. Awakened from cryosleep later than expected, Sapphira finds the civilized landscape a strange and hopeless place. Corruption and decay plagues the city she once knew, but her eyes are set on a new land: the infant town of Jeremia, untouched by her government and their emotion-suppressing laws, the very first sign of people after the nuclear War that ended nearly all life on Earth. She doesn’t know what draws her there, and she doesn’t know what she’ll find. All Sapphira knows is an insatiable and demanding curiosity and the skills she needs to satisfy it.

Selena is a wife first and a woman second. She never wanted to be married, least of all when she was forced at seven years old to the man who declared himself the absolute ruler of Jeremia. She was grown now, but nothing had changed. Whores littered the bed in the day and she had to sleep with their scent in her nostrils at night. It sickened her, but there was not much she could do to stop it. She had her own problems to deal with, like an assassination attempt she escaped by mere chance. Life had been a miserable and uneventful affair, but after digging up a startling conspiracy she soon realizes there’s more to her husband than meets the eye, and there’s only one person who could help uncover the whole truth and keep her alive at the same time: Sapphira Lindsey.

Killer. Rapist. Witch. Only the former title is true, but Cillian Bierne has been whispered about in taverns and churches as all of them and more. He’s an assassin without empathy, lurking on the outskirts of Jeremia and taking care of the targets he’s paid for. Life had not always been this way, and he prefers not to think about it. But when the Order of the Crow ambushes him, a cult of religious fanatics he supposedly wiped out so very long ago, he must retrace the steps that made him who he was today. In the meantime, an unknown client offers him a job he couldn’t refuse, a reward in and of itself that brings the glimmer of vengeance to his eyes, and her name is Sapphira.

This series is in development with only a few thousand words being written. A few chapters have been posted, however future updates are on hiatus until further notice.

What about Fall?

It’s the onset of the Meiji Restoration, late 19th century Japan. The Shogunate have all but dissolved after the Boshin War over two decades ago. The new Emperor has taken the throne, industrialization has swept the nation, society and the economy have begun to modernize. In the middle of this revitalization arrived a terror no one could have predicted: a great meteor, falling from the sky over New Edo and impacting close enough to destroy nearly half the city from the blow and setting the rest of it ablaze.

This event has been known as the Sparkfall. When the meteor struck the earth, everything changed. Seemingly random people were granted strange, fantastical powers, stretching across the entire country, and many spots of land were decimated with unknown disease, creatures and phenomena. The greed of men became well known as Westerners of all kinds flooded in to seize control. Remnant Shogun and their soldiers stormed what remained of New Edo and drove the Emperor’s people away, and anarchy riddled the land for years.

The world’s nations collaboratively declare Japan a quarantine zone, leaving those trapped there in chaos. The wars continue, but the sides have been drawn clearer. Ryo is a mercenary-for-hire with a conscience, working most closely with the covert, elite clan known as the Kaijin. He has rules for the contracts he takes. He kills those only who harm innocent lives, and cares not for the politics and bloodshed of the various factions that clash and claim territory. He doesn’t want allies, and least of all friends, but the emergence of a powerful and unknown enemy may force him to build the bridges he’s burned and seek out allies in places he could never have imagined.

Originally titled “Supaku”, Fall is a working title as I do my best as an author to explore Japanese culture, myths, and history. It is an alternative history/fantasy aimed towards a YA audience, though it still may contain depictions of graphic violence and vulgar language to an acceptable degree.