Cyberpunk noir · Near-future Toronto · The Reszoverse

Lost Time

They say you never forget the first time you die.

A hard-edged cyberpunk noir in the spirit of Philip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson and William Gibson. If you love your sci-fi relentless and armed with twists, this is what you've been looking for.

Reading order

Start with Second Skyn, free. Books 1–3 are one story in three parts; Books 4 and 5 stand alone.

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Book 1 Free

Second Skyn

They say you never forget the first time you die.

Toronto Police Service Detective Finsbury Gage knows this better than anyone. Now that he's gone digital, he sees his death every time he closes his eyes—he and his wife, smeared across the highway after a malfunctioning bit-head ran them down in a stolen urban assault vehicle. Fin hung together long enough for the Second Skyn recovery team to rescue his fading thoughts from his ruined body and implant them in a custom-grown bioSkyn. His wife wasn't so lucky.

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Finsbury's been gifted a second chance, but the only thing keeping him from blowing his plastic brains out is that 2.57 seconds of vivid memory running on repeat through his head, the one that contains an instant's glimpse of his killer's face. The police couldn't find the man responsible, and now the only evidence is locked up in Finsbury's brand new mind.

Driven to find his killer, Finsbury falls into a dangerous underworld of hackable minds and enhanced bodies, where death is cheap, and memory all that matters.

Finsbury's going to find the man who stole his future, no matter what he has to do.

Or what he must become.

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Book 2

Neuroshyft

To find out who he is, he must discover who he became.

Finsbury Gage will do anything to find the man who murdered his wife. He'll withhold information from his superiors in the Psychorithm Crime Unit. He'll cut corners. He'll steal evidence. He'll even augment his prosthetic brain with illegal code.

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But once he's tasted the power of living at the speed of thought, able to predict seconds into the future, how will he ever go back? And once he's relaxed his grip on humanity, how far will he let it slip to find justice for his wife?

He'll find out eight months later, when he wakes once again in a new body with a new name and no memory of his first restoration. He soon discovers he was somehow involved in a series of mindjackings, his friends and colleagues disappeared or locked-up for crimes they don't remember committing. And the person behind them is still out there. Hunting for him.

To find out who he is, Finsbury Gage will have to discover who he became—but will he be able to live with himself when he does?

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Book 3

Rithmsync

He can't trust anyone, not even himself.

Finsbury Gage doesn't know who he is. Is he the man who lost his wife and burned the world down hunting her murderer—or is he the man who lost his wife and returned to ashes?

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He's thrown his life away, sacrificed everything to find the man who killed his wife. He thinks he has the answers—but he doesn't know how wrong he is. Fin's heading for a showdown, and only one of him can survive.

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Books 1–3 · Box set

Lost Time: Vol One

The complete first trilogy.

For fans of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and the Matrix—a mind-bending sci-fi action blockbuster that'll keep you guessing all the way to the end. Contains Second Skyn, Neuroshyft, and Rithmsync. The ebook is $2 cheaper here than on Amazon.

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Short story · Prequel to Book 4 Free for members

Winter's Fix

Winter doesn't want to kill you. He wants to be you.

After years of saving, Swade finally became digitally immortal. He thought his life could only get better. It didn't. Then he met Winter, and everything got much, much worse.

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Book 4

Winter Overrun

Finsbury Gage is terrified of what's inside him.

He's been dead more than once, and haunted now by the memories of lives he never lived. All he wants to do is hide—from a world he doesn't belong to and the person he doesn't recognize—until he's forced from his self-imposed exile by a threat the police can't handle and a request he can't refuse.

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A girl has gone missing. Arrived in the big city from the Preserves and immediately disappeared. Her brother's come looking for her, and while a lifetime on a farm hasn't prepared him to navigate the dangerous Reszo underworld, he's not about to let that or anything else stop him from finding his sister.

Finsbury will be drawn into a hunt for a killer no one believes in. Someone who doesn't just kill—he steals the thoughts of his victims and makes them part of himself.

Finsbury Gage is about to meet Winter, and neither of them will ever be the same.

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Short story · Prequel to Book 5 Free for members

AniK@'s Escape

This game might be Anika's last.

Anika lives in the system, grinding crypto for the Foster Mother twelve hours a day, but she has a plan to get out—she's saved for years, and today she's gonna buy her freedom. But when Foster Mother knocks her plan to hell, Anika won't give up without a fight.

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Book 5

Decimation Island

In this game, death is the only escape.

Decimation Island is the hottest sport in the world, a hundred-hour battle royale fight to the death, and Anika "AniK@" Reyes just became its biggest star—except this isn't how she planned it. Seconds away from winning her tenth game in a row, becoming the first person ever to survive a thousand hours and earning herself millions in prizes, she turned her gun on herself and ended her own run.

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No one knows why, including Anika. But she's determined to find out.

And while Finsbury Gage isn't much into sports these days, or doing much more than hiding in his head with the ghost of his dead wife, when an old friend asks him to investigate Anika's try-outs for the New Gladiator fighting league, he can't refuse.

His quest to uncover the truth behind Anika's aborted run on Decimation Island will pull him into the high stakes world of professional video gaming, a race to find a stolen shipment of weapons-grade bioSkyns, and the messy complications of an unexpected connection.

But Decimation Island protects its secrets well, and to find them Finsbury and Anika will need to work together—if they can keep from killing each other first.

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Prequel · Standalone novel Free

Klaxon Overdrive Supernova

If the cops don't get him, the demons in his head will.

Dodge is a man in freefall, a nervous disaster waiting to implode, only able to function thanks to the powerful anti-anxiety meds he downs by the handful. He's got one option left—edit the broken parts out of his malfunctioning brain—but psychic surgery isn't cheap.

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He's a mozzy, a gene thief, and the only way to earn that kind of money means running a risky, all-or-nothing heist on an impossible to reach target. He is the worst possible man for the job, but there's no one else he can trust.

He's about to steal the DNA of the most famous man on the planet and trade it for fortune. All he has to do is keep from collapsing into a molten panic attack, and his life will be changed forever. But in Dodge's world, nothing ever comes easy. Though he has no idea just how bad it's about to get.

Pursued by shadowy mercenaries, a self-help techno-cult, and a dangerous woman with mysteries of her own, Dodge will be forced to dive into himself and confront his deepest fears—but who will come out the other side?

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Same universe, centuries later

Timespace Empire

Lost Time's world gone interstellar, and split in two over the question Fin lives with: is a copied mind still a person?

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