The past she's running from
is running toward her.

Beth Thompson is a CIA scientist with a mind wired for chemistry—she reads the world in scent, trace compounds, and patterns no one else notices. When she defies orders to chase down the truth about her disgraced, dead husband, the trail leads to a remote Pacific island and a tree that shouldn't exist: older than history, and guarded by a secretive order for reasons no one will explain.

She isn't the only one hunting it. Keegan, a biotech mogul convinced the tree holds the key to engineering the next stage of human evolution, is closing in from another direction—and everything Beth learns about him brings her closer to a truth about herself she's spent her whole life running from. With a blunt, unlikely ally named Syx and a man named John whose senses border on inhuman, Beth is pulled into a war between science and myth that started decades before she was born.

Detector blends espionage, speculative science, and deep mythology into the first book of a planned trilogy about the origins of human intelligence—and who gets to decide what comes next for the species.

Detector — a novel

Two Hunters, One Tree

The Seekers have protected trees like this one for generations, guarding forces the modern world dismisses as myth. Beth's own body carries evidence of something similar—an immunity, a sensitivity to pattern and scent, that no textbook can explain. The closer she gets to the tree's secret, the less certain she is that any of it was ever coincidence.

What to Expect

  • A CIA thriller with a mythic, speculative-science core
  • A slow-burn identity mystery with real teeth
  • An ensemble of allies as sharp and damaged as the leads
  • Book one of a planned trilogy

Where Things Stand

Detector is currently undergoing a full revision—tightening the plot and deepening the emotional stakes ahead of querying literary agents. It's the first installment in a trilogy that carries its questions about identity, evolution, and legacy across two more books.