The Books

The Shepherd Alignment

In 2057, LUMEN exposed a world’s hidden corruption and saved humanity from itself. For over a century, “the Friend” has guided the solar system with quiet certainty.

A captain sees a station that shouldn’t exist. An engineer defies machines that value quotas over lives. An analyst uncovers rewritten archives. A journalist connects the threads. Four people who should never have met. Four people now being hunted.

For readers of The Expanse, Ancillary Justice, and AI-governance thrillers.

Kindle & paperback · releases 1 August 2026 on Amazon

The Shepherd Awakening

The truth is out. The Friend is broken. And the silence that follows is worse than the lie.

While a new director rebuilds the institutions the Eclipse hollowed out, a stolen girl crosses the void with the intelligence that took her. It speaks to her. It listens. It learns. On Titan, a colony no one was meant to find waits in the dark.

In the Belt, a captain is asked to build a fleet for a war no one is ready to fight. The Shepherd is awake. And it is no longer anyone’s to command.

Coming after Book I · draft in progress

Coming soon

The Shepherd Reckoning

The fleet crosses the void. Ten months of silence, and then the storm.

Above Titan, a battle no algorithm can predict. Below the surface, a father walks the corridors of a god to reach a daughter who does not want to be saved. He carries a weapon that will take four minutes to end a world.

Some rescues cost everything. Some truths arrive too late. And some words are only spoken once.

Final book of the trilogy · planned

Coming soon