AN ADULT SCIENCE-FANTASY NOVEL
She survived by becoming someone else.
Now she has to decide who she really is.
THE STORY
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.
A story about the identities imposed on us—and the ones we choose for ourselves.
HOME
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.
EXILE
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 PLANET LEVON
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.
The home of the Storyteller—and the place where Ruby first hears the stories that will shape her future.
Ruby’s family home: warmth, memory, grief, and the reunion she has wanted for twelve years.
A major city on Botan and a key point in the continent’s political and military geography.
The green-sand desert at the heart of Minos, where clan power and Vaurienne’s survival are forged.
A Gold Oko port tied to trade, negotiation, and the fragile alliances that shape Minosian power.
Red and Blue Oko locations that define the rival territories surrounding Hamada.
DARK STAKES. STRANGE WONDER.
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
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.
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.
An ancient keeper of Levon’s stories whose tales of demons, rulers, and lost kingdoms may be far more than mythology.
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.