“Wow!!!!! I love the story!! I was just going to read a few pages today and then couldn't put the book down!!" – Goodreads ReviewerSome wounds run deeper than the fractured earth. Some love is worth risking everything to heal them.Two hundred years after the Shift, Luke O'Brien has spent his life hunting the sand-ravaged lands for the "drifters" who killed his father. When he's sent to negotiate an impossible peace, the last thing he expects is to be captured by Kaia—a fierce mountain warrior whose green eyes burn with a hatred he doesn't understand.Kaia knows the soshos murdered her cousin Cole during one of their brutal raids, but she doesn't know which one pulled the trigger. As the sacred leader of her people, she should kill this enemy where he stands. Instead, she takes him prisoner, torn between the revenge that burns in her blood and the impossible peace her dying world desperately needs.Forced to cross the unforgiving desert where water is sacred and sandstorms kill without warning, they discover truths that will challenge everything they believe. Luke isn't just another enemy—he might be the key to her people's survival. And Kaia isn't another "drifter"—she's the one person who could show him there's more to life than revenge.But when devastating secrets surface, they have to face whether their growing bond can withstand the shattering truth. Because in a world where trust is deadly and hope is scarce, some bonds are worth defying destiny itself. Even when the truth threatens to destroy everything.Earth and Ember is a soul-stirring survival romance that weaves Indigenous wisdom with epic adventure and a love story that will leave you breathless. If you crave rich world-building and prose you can feel deep in your bones, this dystopian tale will stay with you long after the final page.Also in the Forgotten Lands series:Dust and ShadowEarth and EmberTide and TempestBorne of Sand and Scorn (Series Prequel)

Book 1 - Imperial SunsetHumanity’s thousand-year-old interstellar empire has been rotting from the inside for over a century, thanks to venal, corrupt, and power-hungry sovereigns from a dynasty many consider illegitimate. The latest in that lineage, an increasingly psychotic empress, is pushing her realm toward catastrophic collapse as admirals and generals rebel against her rule. That rebellion quickly drags the once mighty Imperial Fleet into a devastating fratricidal conflict between factions. With civil war raging across human space, a Navy torn asunder can no longer protect frontier colonies, and barbarians long confined to the galactic badlands see an opportunity. After generations of hard existence on worlds beyond the bounds of human civilization, they hold life cheap, especially that of others. The barbarians will gladly steal everything they find and condemn defenseless star systems to technological and demographic collapse. One man, Captain Jonas Morane of the cruiser Vanquish, saw the empire’s collapse coming years before the first admiral rebelled. When he finds himself the senior surviving officer of a loyalist Navy unit almost entirely annihilated by rebels, Morane puts in motion a plan he developed long ago. This plan was designed to not only save his ships and crews from certain death but keep humanity’s accumulated knowledge from being obliterated by the long night of barbarism. However, before his dream can become a reality, Morane must lead the remains of the 197th Imperial Battle Group across a shattered empire, dodging his former colleagues from both sides, to the sanctuary he selected. Along the way, he rescues an Imperial Marine Corps Pathfinder battalion and the survivors of a religious order known for its mysticism and enlists them in his cause. But will Morane’s sanctuary survive both the flames of rebellion and the depredations of invading marauders before his rag-tag fleet can reach it?Book 2 - Imperial TwilightThe most powerful empire in human history is rushing headlong toward destruction, ending our species’ supremacy in the known galaxy. Two men with widely divergent visions are on a mission to save civilization far from the imperial capital where a demented ruler holds sway. The first, Jonas Morane, wants to create an impregnable vault containing humanity’s accumulated knowledge so those who survive the coming darkness can rebuild in decades instead of millennia. The other, Devy Custis, seeks to fend off collapse by founding a new empire in the Coalsack Sector, free of the madness that caused this civil war. But will either resist the ravages of a genocidal empress, blood-maddened barbarians, and scheming admirals? Unfortunately, the vicissitudes of fate, abetted by greed and lust for power, could destroy both before they make their dreams a reality.Book 3 - Imperial NightHumanity's interstellar empire died in fire and blood, leaving wrecked star systems to face the long night of barbarism. One tiny spark of civilization remains: the Republic of Lyonesse. Yet that last bastion could suffer the same dire fate. When the late empress unleashed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse on her crumbling realm, Lyonesse escaped War and Famine. However, the Pale Rider, carrying pestilence and death, still roams the wormhole network, seeking to finish off what the Imperial Retribution Fleet missed decades earlier, and he has finally found the entrance to the Lyonesse branch. What about the White Rider who brings deceit and the worship of false prophets? Perhaps he is already on Lyonesse, undermining what Jonas Morane so laboriously created. Will the Navy's tiny, decrepit fleet stop plague ships from reaching Lyonesse while Morane and his ally Sister Gwenneth keep the fledgling republic from turning on itself? Or will Lyonesse join the rest of humanity in a long imperial night, one which might never end?

The strong are infected. The weak are tossed into pits.The radios are dead. No word from the government. No soldiers on the horizon. The world outside stopped answering—and the town was left in the dark.All that remains are the survivors: a quiet kid from a broken farm—and a girl he never imagined would be at his side when the world ended.Fifteen-year-old Sheldon didn’t ask to lead anyone. But when the creatures came from the trees, they didn’t just kill—they hollowed people out.Now, the real threat isn’t what’s hunting them—it’s the infection twisting human minds and erasing everything they used to be.When the town collapses overnight, Sheldon is forced to make choices no one his age should ever face. With danger in every shadow and no one left to trust, he and a small group of survivors must navigate a world that’s turned against them—one mile, one mistake, one heartbeat at a time.As trust fades and instincts take over, Sheldon will learn that surviving the end of the world isn’t about running or fighting.It’s about making sacrifices—heartbreaking, terrifying sacrifices.