The catalogue · two series, three books
Both series start at book one.
Echo Island is Celtic folklore and invented botany — plant technology instead of magic, and five books planned. Subterrania is a mile underground and considerably meaner, book one of a trilogy.
They don’t connect. Pick whichever you like the sound of, then read that one in order. Kindle is the cheap way in and both ebooks are free on Kindle Unlimited.
Echo Island · YA fantasy · five books planned
Ten clans behind a wall, holding their own progress back.
Three hundred years ago the founders of the Ten Clans decided to stop advancing on purpose. Nobody crosses the Great Wall. Then a fifteen-year-old is handed a box he was told not to open, and it turns out to be an invitation from a people who are not human.
Book One · out now
The Clan Games
A masked thief hands Calum O’Brian a wooden box and tells him not to open it. What follows is a clan competition with almost no rules, a secret society that grows its technology instead of building it, and a rebel in a mask who is not obviously wrong.
Free on Kindle Unlimited. Everything about book one → · the series and the Celtic sources →
Book Two · October 6, 2026
Fall of the Ten Clans
Four clans have fallen in four daring moves and declared themselves a new nation. Calum goes over the Great Wall after a people who may not want to be found, with nothing but a page of his own notes — and his best friend is already on the other side of this war without knowing it.
Pre-orders land the morning it releases. Everything about book two, and the free prequel →
Reader reviews · Amazon
Not my words.
Quoted from Amazon, one per book, unedited apart from trimming for length.
★★★★★
“Super exciting, twisty, unique story, very well written, targeted for young adults but I enjoyed it (even as a not-so-young adult)… I will seek out other works by this author.”
★★★★★
“This isn’t just a story—it’s an experience… Every twist caught me off guard. I kept saying ‘just one more chapter,’ and suddenly it was 2 a.m.”
Also coming · not finished yet
And one for younger readers.
Middle grade · in progress
The Closet of Doom
Every middle school has one, and nobody remembers who went in. Two seventh graders go down after a friend they cannot name. It is being written a chapter at a time and read aloud to my own classes, who tell me which parts are boring.
No release date · nothing to pre-order
Subterrania · YA science fiction · a trilogy
Humanity fled underground seven hundred years ago.
Miles of tunnels, caverns and hidden colonies, and a teenager who cannot stop going down the ones she was told to stay out of. Shadow-tech, a sarcastic AI, and a society built on a lie about what is actually down there with them.
Book One · out now
Subterrania
Quin is sixteen. A secret order recruits her for exactly the flaw she can’t fix, and within a month she has lost an arm, gained an illegal robot, and learned that everything her people believe about the enemy is a lie. For readers of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner.
Free on Kindle Unlimited. Full synopsis → · read the first three chapters free →
Free · not sold anywhere
The Belrose Journals
A botanist’s field journal from Amazonas, 1924. Eight dated entries, three illustrated plates, and a steady scientific hand right up until the world stops being the one he left. Henry Belrose is a main character in Fall of the Ten Clans, and the journal stops exactly where the novel starts.
Eight entries. Three plates. Yours free.
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