It began with an accident.
A breakthrough in prenatal health promised to eliminate disease for future generations. But during one birth cycle in 2170, something went very wrong.

Every baby exposed to the original formula was born with one unexpected trait: golden eyes—the only known side effect. The drug was quietly pulled from the market. A revised version, Uteroprotect 2.0, was released. The world moved on.

For decades, nothing seemed unusual.

But in a future where lifespans are extended through personal genomics, one truth became impossible to hide: by age seventy, the gold-eyed children still hadn’t aged a day past twenty-five. They're a new kind of human, shaped by a genomic variant no one meant to create.

The public noticed.
And fear followed.

By 2241, the world stands on the edge of collapse. A global pathogen begins to spread. Panic fractures society. Those with means flee to the Moon and Mars colonies. The rest go underground into stasis, hoping to outlast the chaos. And the Variants—untouched by disease—remain.

Then, Earth goes silent.

But not all was left behind. Beneath the surface, a secret plan was set in motion: one final safeguard against the gold-eyed population above.

In Broken Bonds, two lives edge closer to that reckoning: 

Riva Dorn, raised in a Children’s Colony and loyal to the Alliance that shaped her, is recruited into its ranks, only to discover that obedience may come at a devastating cost.

Alix Troyer, a Variant geneticist, returns to his dying father’s side and uncovers a long-buried truth: his employer's corporate cover-up from 2170. As he digs deeper, he realizes the world’s greatest accident may have never been resolved at all.

A century later, in Worlds Apart, Riva awakens to find the plan meant to eliminate the Variants has failed. Now, they thrive. And the former capital of the Northern Alliance belongs to them.

As hidden truths rise and the Alliance narrative begins to crack, Riva must ask herself:

What if the real threat… was never the Variants?

Riva Dorn, our protagonist, is a young Colony Manager who must confront a society reshaped by the upheaval of the past. Initially loyal to her commander’s vision for the future, when his desires take a dark turn, she makes a fateful decision about whom to believe: her powerful superior, or her new immortal ally. With an emerging sense of purpose, Riva Dorn charts her own path forward. Will her intuition hold the key to the future of humanity, or its destruction?

Commander Jaxom Troyer has waited a long time to settle an old score. Single-minded and stubborn, he sees only one answer to the immortal ‘problem.’ Power has been an effective weapon he wields often against them, but when he discovers his plan destroyed, his choices set the stage for a day of reckoning that will affect all the inhabitants of Earth, mortal and immortal alike.

Edam Martin is a first-generation immortal filled with turmoil abut his past. When mortal Riva Dorn arrives, her appearance unleashes a century of pain underneath his veneer of calm, driving him to a despair that won’t allow him to remain silent. With more loss than any family tree should bear, his greatest challenge is yet to come.

Trace Martin is Edam Martin’s grandson. A third-generation immortal, the effect of The Change on world events was a source of both pain and intense curiosity about their beginnings. Eager to make meaning of his immortal life, he has some empty spaces left to fill. When Riva Dorn appears at his doorstep, he’s unprepared for how her history and perspectives will change his own. Will he allow her influence to shift how he sees his life forever?

Alix Troyer is a Variant geneticist who spent his career helping others by designing replacement organs for the aging and counseling families through the challenges of rare birth anomalies. He believed in the promise of Genetica Protect. He believed in the science. But when his dying father confesses to a cover-up involving the very formula that altered his genome, Alix is forced to confront an unbearable truth: the system he served wasn’t just flawed—it was hiding the damage. Assigned to investigate Genetica Protect on behalf of the Alliance, Alix begins to unearth the evidence his father helped suppress. And when his findings spark a firestorm that propels his estranged nephew Jaxom into power, Alix is left to ask himself: what does justice look like when you were part of the silence?