Fiction • History • Science

Books

Different worlds. One through-line.

These books approach the same questions through different worlds: ancient Rome and its modern ruins, an alternate London, a civilization founded on geometry, and the structure of reality itself. What is power for? What do we owe one another? And what makes a world worth building?

Historical Fantasy Series

Romans Out of Time

Broken Arches · Book One

Ancient Rome Historical Fantasy Romance Political Intrigue

Rome, 1996. Carla Corvini finds four soldiers beneath the broken aqueducts. They speak Latin. They remember water running overhead that morning. And they insist that Caesar is still waiting for them.

To the Romans, cars are sorcery and television is a portent from the gods. To Carla, their impossible knowledge is harder to dismiss than their costumes. As her fascination with Marcus grows, an ancient Order pursues a return of its own, with ambitions that extend far beyond Rome.

Broken Arches opens the Romans Out of Time series: ancient loyalties, modern intrigue, a slow-burning romance, and the dry humor of two worlds trying to share a kitchen.

Romans Out of Time: Broken Arches standing on a library table beside a Roman helmet and a card offering the first three chapters

Science Fiction Series

The Violet Engine

Fiction Sci-Fi Steampunk Alternate History
The Violet Engine: Hearts in Flux, hardcover on a desk

An alternate 1943 where the world runs not on electricity but on the Violet Flux — a mysterious, consciousness-responsive energy accidentally unleashed from a reality rift decades earlier. Intended as a gift to elevate human awareness, the Flux instead became a tool of power, controlled by the authoritarian Violet Order. Society has split: the elite enjoy violet-tinged eyes and pristine technology, while the lower classes survive on steam and scrap.

When a young researcher and a mysterious figure called Orion — something not quite human, not quite machine — begin uncovering what the Flux actually is, they draw the attention of forces that would rather burn the truth than lose control of it. The deeper they go, the clearer it becomes: the Flux was never meant to be controlled. It was meant to be understood.

Novel

The Sigma Emperor

Fiction Speculative Fiction Epic Political Philosophy

On a Sardinian beach, a man draws a shape in the sand — and the mathematics behind it begins producing the deepest constants of physics, along with technologies that could end scarcity or enable total domination. His wife is the intelligence that determines which: the frequency reader whose practice of bread, candle, and sacred offering becomes the empire’s constitutional foundation — the counterforce that holds infinite power accountable to the kitchen, the children, and the human hand.

When the old world responds with suppression, blockade, and a strike aimed at the family, the question is no longer whether the geometry works — but whether the civilisation it builds can remain answerable to the sacred.

The Sigma Emperor — Book I cover

Popular Science

The Shape of Everything

Non-Fiction Popular Science Physics Geometry
The Shape of Everything book cover

A popular science book that presents a revolutionary new way to look at the universe — no equations required. The Shape of Everything traces the path from a teenager’s obsession with the golden ratio to a geometric framework that derives physical constants, particle masses, and molecular properties from a single axiom.

Over 100 derivations. One geometric angle. The book makes the case that beauty has always been diagnostic — and that the structure of reality may be far simpler, and far stranger, than the Standard Model suggests.

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