The Witherbound Universe
THE FIRST TEARING
Book 1 of the Wildlands Cycle
When Ashe collapses in their parents’ driveway, gasping for breath as their body tears itself apart, they have no idea they’ve just been claimed by something ancient. Something with teeth.
Marked by Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, Ashe is thrust into a hidden world of Lycans. Werewolf protectors who have defended nature for centuries. Under the guidance of Pines, a weathered elder with secrets of his own, Ashe joins a newly-formed pack in Huntsville, Alabama: Cole, a musician whose songs carry strange power; Grace, a predator learning to leash her hunger; Renae, a woman with a soldier’s discipline; and Ryan, still finding his footing between two worlds.
But not everyone marked by Gaia walks the same path.
When the pack discovers that Dum-Prot Land Development, a company hiding behind polished PR and “sustainable” branding, is corrupting the land itself, they’re drawn into a conspiracy far darker than corporate greed. Something ancient and rotting moves beneath Huntsville’s soil. Something that can twist both flesh and spirit.
As Ashe struggles to control powers they never asked for while being hunted for who they are. And when one of their own is taken, Ashe will discover just how far they’re willing to go, and how much of themselves they’re willing to lose, to bring her home.
The First Tearing is the first book in The Wildlands Cycle, an urban fantasy series exploring the costs of power, the weight of protection, and the bonds that hold us together when the world falls apart.
Release Date 3/24/26
COVENANT
Renae Swain has spent her life preparing for space.
Crushed by student debt and locked out of traditional aerospace careers, she earns a coveted position in the Covenant program, a private initiative tasked with humanity’s first permanent extrasolar colony. The promise is simple. Advanced training. A future off Earth. A chance to be part of something that matters.
From the moment training begins, things feel off.
The program is relentlessly efficient. Surveillance is constant but framed as protection. Information is carefully rationed. Candidates disappear quietly, reassigned or dismissed without explanation. Every concern has a reasonable answer. Every explanation sounds rehearsed.
As Renae advances, she begins to notice inconsistencies. Ship configurations that do not match their stated purpose. Life support priorities that make no sense. Cryogenic infrastructure built for far more people than the crew list allows. The deeper she looks, the clearer it becomes that Covenant is something more than what the public has been told.
Leaving is technically possible. But walking away means forfeiting everything she has worked toward, along with the future the program was designed to replace.
Covenant is a near-future science fiction thriller about institutional control, manufactured consent, and the quiet violence of systems that never raise their voice. It asks what people are willing to accept when the cost of refusal feels worse than the truth.
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On the Horizon
Books to be released later in 2026
