Kaliningrad. Standing on the same Baltic coastline that sparked my first novel three years ago. The fortress walls look exactly as I remember them, but I’m seeing them through different eyes now. When I wrote Northern Rift, this place felt mysterious, full of secrets waiting to be uncovered. Now I understand it was never about […]
Meet Ophelia Duskvale. Twenty-one years old, porcelain skin, golden-chestnut hair that catches light like it was designed for photographs. Always impeccably dressed, always saying exactly the right thing, always appearing at her father’s side like the ideal daughter every powerful man dreams of having. She’s an intern at the Sunset Centre, officially there to learn
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Meet Saul Duskvale, Director of the Sunset Centre. Fifty-something, imposing presence, the kind of man who commands a room simply by entering it. Dark hair touched with silver, amber eyes that have seen too much, always impeccably dressed even at home. Saul built the Centre from nothing, transforming it into the premier research facility for
Meet Miriam Whitmere. Twenty-two years old, copper hair, olive-green eyes, always slightly out of focus in group photographs. The kind of person you’d walk past in the Sunset Centre corridors without noticing. That would be a mistake. Miriam is junior researcher on the Mneme project, working alongside the Thorne brothers. While Abel commands attention and
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Cain Thorne doesn’t command attention. He doesn’t need to. Whilst his twin brother Abel works the room with practiced charm, Cain disappears into laboratory shadows, building the impossible. Twenty-six years old, perpetually exhausted, carrying the weight of being the “difficult” twin. Pale blue eyes that have seen too much, dark hair that never quite behaves,
Meet Abel Thorne. Twenty-six years old, impeccably dressed, devastatingly charming. The kind of man who walks into a 1920s speakeasy and every head turns. In Art of Oblivion, Abel represents everything dangerous about charisma without substance. Bright blue eyes that shift from warmth to calculated coldness in a heartbeat. Always perfectly groomed, always saying exactly
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If Noé Wade is studying human emotions, Zoe Mira is his crash course in feeling everything at once. Twenty-two, marketing student, part-time blogger. Dances in the kitchen at 2am to jazz records, cries at Turkish dramas, wears pyjamas covered in cartoon characters. The kind of person who laughs so loudly she makes strangers smile. She’s
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Been getting questions about the alien protagonist in my upcoming novel. Time to introduce you properly to Noé Wade. Twenty-two years old (by appearance), coal-black hair that never sits right, porcelain skin that looks almost too perfect. Always wears those yellow-tinted glasses – partly disguise, partly protection. His movements are slightly delayed, like he’s calculating
Sharing a rough draft snippet from the alien novel. Still figuring out Noé’s voice but he’s getting there. Noé’s Earth Blog Day 47 Entry: Human Screen-Face Syndrome Observed peculiar behaviour today. Humans stare at small rectangular devices and spontaneously bare their teeth. Not aggression – the teeth-baring happens whilst they’re alone and completely safe. Further
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Three months digging through archives about the 1605 plot and reading papers on memory manipulation. Strange combination, but it worked. The hardest part wasn’t researching 17th-century conspiracies. It was making the tech feel real without going full sci-fi. Turns out our brains already rewrite memories constantly. The book just asks what happens when someone else
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