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The Relic Saga
Science Fantasy | Orphans, Relics, and Questionable Decisions (Time Gets Weird Later)
Duff has never had much—except the orphans he protects. They’re his family, and he’s spent his life keeping the orphanage running under the Company’s shadow. But on his eighteenth birthday, he’s forced to leave… and he knows what that means: without him, the kids will starve.
So Duff does the only thing he can—he walks into the jungle on Planet Kalecca, chasing the one kind of hope that buys survival: a Relic worth selling.
A “chance” encounter with Z offers Duff a place on an independent crew—and offers Z a chance to relieve the guilt of his past.
But the jungle doesn’t care about redemption, and the Company doesn’t care about orphans.
As Duff pushes deeper into the wilds, he’ll face the harsh realities of his world… and the fact that someone is hunting him.
Saving his family was always the plan—until surviving became the question.
Epic-leaning Urban Fantasy | Magic, factions, and a world that got weird on impact
Joshua Lighthouse never wanted to be a hero. He wanted order. He wanted humans to survive in a world where Myth is real and the past is still bleeding into the present.
As head of the Human Protection Agency, he built a life around control—rules, protections, and the careful containment of one dangerous secret: the Book of Secrets.
But secrets don’t stay buried forever.
When the Book is stolen on the eve of the Merge anniversary, Joshua’s world implodes—his position ripped away, trust shattered, and a bounty placed on his head.
Hunted by the system he helped build, Joshua is forced into the one thing he hates most: uncertainty. Every ally could be a traitor. Every truth might be a lie. And somewhere in the city, forces are moving to UnMerge the worlds—no matter who dies in the process.
If Joshua wants salvation, he’ll have to earn it the hard way: by running straight into the darkness he spent his life pretending he could control.
The Northwoods Guardians
Laura Cassidy is the kind of woman who helps first and panics later. When a cabin weekend goes sideways—violentlysideways—she does what she always does: she tries to save the person right in front of her.
That person is Todd Levitts, a contractor with the calm voice of someone who’s survived worse than broken beams—and the instincts of a man who knows exactly how bad this can get. He didn’t come to the Northwoods looking for trouble. Trouble found him, cuffed him to a bed, and left him at the mercy of strangers with guns.
They escape the cabin only because Todd forces them to move—through smoke, through glass, through terror—before the fire finishes what the trap started.
Now they’re running through the trees with nothing but adrenaline, bad options, and the growing certainty that the cabin wasn’t an accident. Someone set the board. Someone wants a scapegoat. And Laura and Todd are standing on the wrong square.
The question isn’t whether they can survive the night—it’s what they’ll have to become to survive what comes next.