AN ADULT SCIENCE-FANTASY NOVEL

RUNYON
FALLS

She survived by becoming someone else.
Now she has to decide who she really is.

A NOVEL BY ED SMALLWOOD
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GenreAdult Science Fantasy
Length105,000 words
StructureTwo converging timelines
PositioningStandalone with series potential
StatusSeeking fiction representation
01

THE STORY

A girl stolen.
A warrior remade.

On the technology-restricted planet of Levon, ten-year-old Ruby Clemens is walking proof of a crime: her scientist father secretly built her an illegal prosthetic leg.

When he cannot repay the Jade Clan for the technology, they take Ruby instead.

Twelve years later, Ruby Clemens is gone. In her place is Gala Vaurienne—the Jade Clan’s trusted desert messenger, a skilled negotiator and fighter who has survived by burying her childhood and proving her loyalty to the man who stole her.

Then her captor launches an invasion of the homeland—and family—she thought she had lost.

ONE LIFE. FOUR NAMES.

RUBY GALA VAURIENNE RUBY

A story about the identities imposed on us—and the ones we choose for ourselves.

BOTAN

HOME

Green fields.
Old stories.
Forbidden technology.

Ruby’s homeland is a place of farms, family, ancient traditions, and strict limits on advanced technology. At its heart lies Runyon Falls, where generations of children have gathered to hear the Storyteller preserve the history of their world.

RUNYON FALLSGRAVITY PARKTERNIUM
MINOS

EXILE

Green sand.
Rival clans.
Power at any price.

Across the Great Ocean, competing clans divide a harsh continent of desert, casinos, smugglers, rulers, and dangerous creatures. Here, Gala Vaurienne learns that belonging can be earned—and revoked.

THE DONJAJADE CLANHAMADA

THE PLANET LEVON

Two continents.
One collision course.

The novel moves between Botan, Ruby’s homeland, and Minos, where she is remade as Gala Vaurienne. The geography becomes part of the story as memory, war, and identity cross the Great Ocean.

Map of Levon showing Botan and Minos and major story locations.
Map of Levon · Botan and Minos
01 / BOTAN

Runyon Falls

The home of the Storyteller—and the place where Ruby first hears the stories that will shape her future.

02 / BOTAN

Clemens Farm

Ruby’s family home: warmth, memory, grief, and the reunion she has wanted for twelve years.

03 / BOTAN

Wedding Shi

A major city on Botan and a key point in the continent’s political and military geography.

04 / MINOS

Hamada & the Donja

The green-sand desert at the heart of Minos, where clan power and Vaurienne’s survival are forged.

05 / MINOS

Gilt Cove

A Gold Oko port tied to trade, negotiation, and the fragile alliances that shape Minosian power.

06 / MINOS

Scarlet Beach & Azuri Bluff

Red and Blue Oko locations that define the rival territories surrounding Hamada.

DARK STAKES. STRANGE WONDER.

War. Family. Monsters.
And shaving leeches.

Runyon Falls balances danger and emotional stakes with offbeat humor, warmth, strange creatures, and moments of wonder. Its world contains gravity geysers, water vampires, floating bullpars, hidden weapons, ancient stories—and enough terrible marksmanship to make survival occasionally ridiculous.

THE PEOPLE OF RUNYON FALLS

Who you are depends on who gets to tell the story.

01
R

Ruby Clemens / Gala Vaurienne

A kidnapped child who survives by becoming one of the Jade Clan’s most capable messengers. Fierce, funny, complicated—and increasingly unwilling to let anyone else define her.

02
G

Gruun

Leader of the Jade Clan. Smuggler, strategist, would-be conqueror, and the warped father figure who stole Ruby’s childhood and believes loyalty can be owned.

03
S

The Storyteller

An ancient keeper of Levon’s stories whose tales of demons, rulers, and lost kingdoms may be far more than mythology.

04
F

Finch & Artax

An almost indestructible floating bullpar and an enormous rammel—two unforgettable creatures whose loyalty matters at crucial moments.

A girl with a stolen past must decide whether she is still her captor’s creation—

or the person he tried to erase.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ed Smallwood

Ed Smallwood lives in the Charlotte, North Carolina area with his wife and family. He has spent more than thirty years working in television, digital advertising, data, and communication—building a career around understanding audiences, storytelling, and how people make decisions.

Runyon Falls is his debut novel, an adult science-fantasy story about identity, family, belonging, power, and stories—the ones we inherit and the ones we make.

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