Clockwork Heretics
As day gives way to night, universes live and die. Capricious gods paint the stars, and the goddess Phoenix immolates them each Cosmic Midnight. But the rogue gods who prefer beauty to truth will no longer abide this destruction.
Nine days before the next Cosmic Midnight, alchemist Siegfried Eversoll is the linchpin in a cosmic war. Estranged son of a genius scientist, he returns to the idyllic mountain village of his childhood for a single purpose: heresy. The beauty of the world is fragile as glass, a dream suspended in amber light, and Siegfried will do anything to preserve it—disobey his father, betray his church, even sacrifice his humanity. Whether he succeeds will determine the fate of the universe.
He delves into a dark realm of science and violence, reforging the chemical structures of the cosmos with quicksilver, stained glass, and strength of vision. But he can’t succeed alone. To immortalize the world, he must rely on those who once shattered all he held dear, whose love he cannot trust: a distant father, a mystic mother, the rogue goddess Vermilion, and misfit twins determined to ruin each other’s lives. Within nine days they will slay a fiery god or destroy each other in the process, forfeiting the universe’s last chance to escape the cycle of destruction. To destroy the decay within themselves, however, will require slaying an entirely different sort of god.
Status: in the query process
Project Viridian
She is a warrior from the sun, a dying and rising god, a science experiment resurrected three hundred years too late. When Aurora wakes up in an unfamiliar body with a ceremonial sword, a mirror, and a photosynthetic rosary, she senses a curse spreading across the planet Orochi. A forbidden gate has been opened, and a boy has trespassed into the Sealed Land to make a demonic bargain that will wreak havoc on the planet’s tenuous ecosystem.
Called forth by the threat of destruction, Aurora must heed the planet’s voice and travel to the Sealed Land to stop the mysterious spread of radiation. Journeying alongside Susan, a surly scavenger specializing in Old Worth tech, Aurora not only fights for her own survival in a landscape of harsh beauty, but also for the survival of the land itself—this land with its giant lizards, raging storms, volcanic power from below and solar radiation from above; yet also its blossom of life, the flaming color of feathers in flight, the green truth of growing things. All of this, in its wonder and terror, Aurora seeks to love and protect. Can she put a stop to the planet’s curse and help humanity live in sacred harmony with all that grows and dies? Or will she be destroyed in the process by the very world she hopes to save?
Status: drafting