Inner Universe Series

9th January 2023: The Boy Who Had Nobody (free short story)

  • Drowning a traumatic past in hard liquor, Adrien have no friends except the ghosts of his memories. But then the captain he works for takes on a foster son.

21st March 2023: River in the Galaxy (Book 1)

  • In River in the Galaxy Merlon fights to keep his crew alive and suppress his prolonged grief and depression. But he must face his own struggles in order to protect the ship and the people aboard.

9th May 2023: The Day They Came (free short story)

  • Officer Kenny is counting down the hours for his shift to end when two strangers arrive unexpectedly. Despite Kenny’s urge for caution towards these newcomers, his superior is more concerned with bribes lining her pockets than potential threats to the people of Amule. Can Kenny protect the city before it’s too late?

17th July 2023: Outer Universe (Book 2 - the conclusion of Merlon’s story)

  • With immense losses, Merlon and his crew have escaped the cannibals of Ivory, but now they are stuck in the wrong universe with no idea which way home lies.

September 2023: Where Kids Are Monsters (free short story)

  • Erica’s world has been turned upside down one too many times in the past week. The last thing she needed was for a talking parrot to dump her, alone, on a crocodile-infested beach on Quarantine Thirteen. She needs to get off the planet, but if she’s not careful, the kids of Quarantine Thirteen might give her the pox and then she can never go home.

November 2023: Quarantine Thirteen (book 3, connected standalone)

  • Since her fight against the last Star-Eater, Tara Polendi's energy-vision has become unreliable — a truth she is too humiliated to share. When Tara unwittingly directs Lucia into the heart of a portal storm, the ship and her crew portal back to the last place they want to go: Outer Universe.

March 2024: The Shadow of a Favoured Friend (free short story)

All stories in the series are released in chronological order. While the best way to experience the series is to read everything in order, each main character’s story will be self-contained and each short story can be read as a standalone.