The Atlas of Forgotten Places

St. Martin's Press (USA), 2017

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Two women from different worlds, bound in a quest to save their loved ones.

​After a long career as an aid worker, Sabine Hardt has retreated to her native Germany for a quieter life. But when her American niece Lily disappears while volunteering in Uganda, possibly investigating the illegal ivory trade, Sabine must return to places and memories she once thought buried in order to find her.

In Uganda, Rose Akulu—haunted by a troubled past with the Lord’s Resistance Army and a family torn apart by war—is distressed when her lover Ocen vanishes without a trace. Side by side, Sabine and Rose unravel the tangled threads that tie Lily and Ocen’s lives together, ultimately discovering that the truth of their loved ones’ disappearance is inescapably entwined to the secrets the two women carry.

From the streets of Kampala to the wilderness of Garamba National Park, The Atlas of Forgotten Places spans geographies and generations to lay bare the stories that connect us all.

House of Liars

Marion Books (global), forthcoming in 2026

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When single mother and failed novelist Anna Olin is invited to an exclusive residency on a remote island, it feels like an opportunity for artistic redemption. Alongside five other writers, including an old flame whose spark still smolders, she must finish her novel to compete for a million-dollar publishing contract. The catch? One of the writers isn't human; it's an AI.

Isolated and under pressure, Anna’s grasp on reality loosens as alliances form fast, seduction beckons, and secrets press closer to the surface--including Anna's own. When she starts receiving cryptic notes and the AI develops frightening new behaviors, Anna must decide what--and who--she's willing to risk if she is to fulfill the darkest fantasies she can't speak aloud, even to herself.

A slow-burn psychological thriller about AI, motherhood, and desire--written by a former big tech AI ethics insider--House of Liars delves into the marrow of the coming wave of AI intimacy, where chatbots and agents influence the most personal parts of our lives, with consequences we can’t yet fathom.

A Short Future History of Whales

Spotify Audiobook Selects (audiobook), Analog Science Fiction and Fact (print), Marion books (PB & Kindle), 2026

“What will you hear, there, in the enclosed ocean of my womb? Will you hear your own heartbeat? Will you hear mine? Will you hear how the world is falling apart, outside?”

One February morning, at exactly the same time around the globe, a mysterious noise—nicknamed “the Song”—emanates from the ocean depths, triggering the end of sea life as we know it.

In a marine acoustics lab, a pregnant single mother-to-be tries to decipher the riddle while holding on to hope for the world her child will be born into. Meanwhile, a US Navy officer troubleshoots an obscure bug in a sophisticated submarine AI system with secrets of its own.