The Attuned series
The Resonance Man
William Ponder hears things no one else can, a low hum behind silence, a whisper beneath the noise of ordinary life. Haunted by sensations he can’t explain and words he never remembers writing, William’s world begins to fracture when a simple tuning fork unearths a forgotten frequency, one that doesn’t just echo back... it listens.
As reality bends and forgotten timelines surface, William is pulled into a mystery that threads through memory, sound, and identity. With the help of a perceptive therapist, a woman who sees through his silence, and strangers who speak in echoes, he must decide whether to tune the hum or become part of it.
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Blending the psychological unraveling of Annihilation with the lyrical depth of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and the eerie, recursive mystery of Dark (Netflix), The Resonance Man is a literary speculative debut that explores loneliness, perception, and the frequencies that shape who we are.
The Boy Out of Time
What if time didn’t pass you by, what if it followed you?
Emit Following was never supposed to be here. Not in this time. Not in this place. But time doesn’t obey rules around Emit, it bends, bleeds, and sometimes breaks.
After slipping between fractured timelines and waking in moments that haven’t happened yet, Emit begins to realize he is not alone. He is one of the Attuned, rare individuals caught in the folds of reality, capable of glimpsing echoes of the past and futures that will never be. But the cost of drifting is high. Each fold leaves a mark. Each moment stolen threatens to unmake the world around him.
When a mysterious girl warns that the folds are bleeding and a shadowy force called the Collectors begins to hunt him, Emit must navigate impossible cities, fractured memories, and his own unraveling mind to find the Anchor, the one thread that can hold time together before everything becomes Unlived.
Darkly lyrical and hauntingly imaginative, A Boy Out of Time is a genre-defying journey through memory, identity, and the heartbeat between seconds.
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Perfect for fans of:
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The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert – for its dreamlike prose and magical realism that blurs the lines between worlds.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab – for its poetic exploration of time, memory, and forgotten lives.
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A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness – for its emotional depth, metaphor-rich storytelling, and haunting atmosphere.
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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone – for readers who love poetic time travel and narrative told through shifting realities.
The Luminous Girl
When Aveline Isley is found barefoot in a burning greenhouse at age seven, untouched by the flames, glowing beneath broken glass, her small town begins to whisper. Not cruelly. Just carefully. As she grows, light bends to her will, mirrors shimmer strangely in her presence, and the world begins to fold in ways it shouldn’t.
Now seventeen, Aveline is adrift in a place where memories bleed, time flickers, and shadows watch from within fractured reflections. The Prism Key, a mysterious shard that pulses like a second heartbeat that leads her deeper into hidden folds of reality where light remembers what she’s tried to forget.
But Aveline isn’t just a girl made of light. She’s a living echo of something ancient, something the Hollowed Eyes and Watchers were never meant to see awake.
To survive, she’ll have to remember the truth buried in her bones.
Because light doesn’t lie.
And some reflections were never meant to look back.
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If you like these, you’ll love The Luminous Girl:
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The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater — for its lyrical prose, teens with supernatural abilities, and mysterious hidden forces
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A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik — for the dark academic feel mixed with deep lore and magical structures
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House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland — for the eerie, otherworldly tone and haunting sibling mystery
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Stranger Things (TV) — for the nostalgic, atmospheric dread and young protagonists entangled with an alternate reality
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A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness — for the intellectual mysticism, hidden powers, and time-bending threads
The Stitched Child
He wasn't born. He was assembled. And the threads remember everything.
In the mist-drenched shadows of 1737 England, a boy appears at the gate of Blackvine Orphanage—stitched together with secrets, scars, and something not quite human. He calls himself Adam. But each thread sewn into his skin hums with memories that don’t belong to him: a mother’s touch, a blade’s betrayal, a voice whispering warnings from beneath the floorboards.
As Adam struggles to understand who—or what—he is, he begins to unravel a hidden world stitched into the seams of reality. Haunted by Flayers, guided by glyphs, and hunted by a past he cannot remember, Adam must confront the truth behind his creation and the ancient force threatening to tear the fabric of memory itself.
A gothic, genre-bending tale of found identity, sensory magic, and the cost of remembering what was meant to be forgotten, The Stitched Child is a lyrical and haunting journey through the wounds that make us whole.
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"The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman – for its lyrical prose, childlike perspective amidst dark mythology, and blurred line between reality and memory.
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"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley – for the stitched creation motif, exploration of identity, and gothic atmosphere.
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"The Ten Thousand Doors of January" by Alix E. Harrow – for its poetic style, portal-like logic of memory and reality, and metafictional elements.
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"The Library at Mount Char" by Scott Hawkins – for its surreal, mythic horror elements and characters stitched from pain and power.
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"Coraline" by Neil Gaiman – especially relevant for younger YA crossover audiences, thanks to the stitched surrealism and eerie sense of a familiar world gone wrong.
The Redolence Woman
A Gothic Olfactory Mystery
In a forgotten coastal village of 1901 Ireland, Aurora Sullivan possesses a gift that is both intimate and dangerous: she can smell memories. But when familiar scents return with strangers, hauntings, and vanishings, her world of herbs, grief, and forgotten rituals begins to unravel.
As Aurora follows threads of scent that stretch across lifetimes, she discovers that memory is not always one's own—and that some fragrances were never meant to be inhaled.
With lyrical prose, creeping dread, and an atmosphere thick as fog, The Redolence Woman is a haunting tale of identity, ancestral secrets, and the sensory language of grief.
For Fans Of:
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Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle – for its eerie isolation and feminine mystery
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Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus – for the lush sensory magic and mythic undertones
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T. Kingfisher’s What Moves the Dead – for its gothic tone and unsettling transformations
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Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger – for ghostly atmospheres and unreliable realities
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke – for dreamlike logic and memory-challenging structures
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Haunting of Hill House meets Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Devouring Mage
A Taste of Memory. A Feast of Power. A War Against Time.
In The Devouring Mage, Book Six of the acclaimed series, François Aldéric—court sorcerer, memory-eater, and master of charm—stalks the unraveling threads of time itself. Haunted by a girl named Aurora, pursued by ancient forces that watch from the seams of reality, and seduced by the secrets he consumes, François straddles the line between scholar and predator.
As the past decays and the future folds in on itself, François must navigate courts dripping in velvet and venom, forests that bleed memory, and gardens that remember names long buried. But Perception—the hungry god of awareness—has begun to stir, and it wants more than memory. It wants Aurora.
Will François remain the clever mage who manipulates time and taste? Or will he be devoured by the very knowledge he craves?
Enter a world where memory is currency, scent is truth, and the wrong question can fracture time.
Perfect For Fans Of:
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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir – for its decadent prose, morally gray magic, and queer-coded intensity
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The Locked Tomb series – especially fans who enjoy necromantic politics and unreliable narrators
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern – for readers who crave lyrical, immersive fantasy filled with sensory detail
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke – for its historical sorcery and shadowy deals with cosmic entities
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Dark Academia + Epic Fantasy mashups – think A Deadly Education meets The Sandman
Parallaxis
A Tapestry of Memory, Magic, and Rebellion
In a world where time echoes and memory weaves reality, Parallaxis plunges readers into the heart of a fractured weave known as the Loom. Magic is no longer instant—it hesitates, reflects, questions. Watchers, Archivists, and Attuned navigate a shifting reality where perception itself is a weapon, and the act of remembering can reshape existence.
Emit, Margaret, the enigmatic Archivist, and a cast of beautifully broken characters uncover ancient glyphs, sentient thorns, memory-choked roots, and rogue timelines in their effort to understand and heal a world that may not want to be saved. As forgotten clocks tick again and silent groves whisper old truths, the lines between observer and participant blur—and history begins to remember itself.
At once lyrical, philosophical, and deeply human, Parallaxis is not just a fantasy—it’s a reckoning.
For fans of:
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Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea
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Genevieve Gornichec’s The Weaver and the Witch Queen
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Neil Gaiman meets Dark Souls
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The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir
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The haunting world-building of China Miéville
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Narrative puzzle-boxes like HBO's Westworld and Dark (Netflix)
The Codex Attunem
Threads from the Scar
For fans of Tamsyn Muir’s The Locked Tomb, Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea, and the lore-rich design of Destiny orControl.
What if magic refused to obey?
In the scarred echoes of a world stitched by memory and belief, glyphs once shaped reality—until one boy's refusal shattered the system. The Codex Attunem is a forbidden artifact of that collapse, a companion text from deep within the mythos of the Threadwalker Saga. Equal parts field manual, recovered transcript, and metaphysical journal, this book unravels the haunted mechanics of glyphcasting, the sentient threads of the Loom, and the collapse of trust that birthed the Fold.
Told through fractured lore entries, damaged transcripts, and attunement profiles, this is not a story—it’s a reckoning. And it's asking readers to choose their own thread.
Read with care. Cast with certainty. The Loom remembers.
The Mercy We Owe
Book Eight of the Attuned Series
When the Harmonic Clock falls silent, the Attuned—once keepers of the senses—become splintered echoes of a world unraveling. Time spirals. Memory rots. Perception itself begins to hum a new, dangerous tune.
As the Resonance collapses, six fractured souls must face their deepest truths: a scent-weaver who can no longer smell, a timekeeper lost in loops, a thread-binder haunted by names he never owned, and a songbearer grasping at silence. Bound not by destiny, but by unraveling threads of identity, they each hold a piece of a broken world that refuses to forget them.
But Perception isn’t a villain—it’s a wound that sings.
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For fans of Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea, N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy, and Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Cycle,
Resonance Fractured weaves lyrical prose, multiversal echoes, and haunting metaphysics into a stunning continuation of the Parallaxis saga.
The tuning is broken. The mirrors are cracked. And in the silence between chimes, the question remains:
Will they rewrite the world—or be rewritten by it?
Resonance Restored
Aveline walks the remnants of a story unraveling—haunted by echoes, shaped by silence, and pursued by fragments of what was never said. The world around her is collapsing under the weight of memory, revision, and everything that was meant to be forgotten. But she refuses to disappear quietly.
Dark, lyrical, and unflinchingly intimate, Resonance Restored is a journey through perception, identity, and the cost of being seen. As the final threads of the Resonance Cycle tighten, Aveline must face the one question no story dares ask: What happens when you stop following the narrative?
Perfect for fans of The Starless Sea, This Is How You Lose the Time War, and Piranesi, this installment is a bold and poetic continuation of a series where nothing stays buried—and no one stays silent.
The Book of Margaret
Before the Attuned were named, before the world began to break, Margaret Sallow was a Watcher—trained to observe, never to interfere.
But the moment compassion pulled her off her appointed path, she became something far more dangerous: a fracture in the story itself.​
This isn’t a redemption.
It’s a reckoning.
And the beginning of the scars to come.
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For fans of The Library of Babel - Borges stories, A Head of Ghost- Paul Trembly, The Book of M - Peng Sheperd, The Sandman - Neil Gaiman
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