A chapter from my latest unpublished novel, Knots, won the Uncharted Novel Excerpt Contest! Guest judge Rachel Howzell Hall, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of 16 novels, selected my entry as one of three co-winners of the annual contest.
Knots
Would you commission ancient magic to save your loved one’s life? What if the healer was more quantum physicist than modern-day Druid?
Julian Ryder, a 45-year-old introvert, awakens into a reality where his memories clash with modern history. Each time he closes in on the truth, his world changes again: unrecognizable panoramas of climate, technology, politics—entire societies.
The mastermind behind it all, Cillian Brannigan, is a brilliant physicist, convinced of his righteousness. In the decades preceding Julian’s crucible, he skirts the boundaries of sanity putting his quantum transpositioning experiments to the test.
A crippling affliction threatens to derail both men’s goals before their ultimate confrontation. At stake is the existence of an entire universe—but is theirs only one of many worlds?
Target publication: 2027 Q2.