About The Swan and the Whirlwind
In a parallel future, Paul Vallier, a gifted intelligence agent, makes a startling discovery. The current director, Sara Burton, isn’t someone he remembers her to be. Paul learns that Sara holds a secret regret. Now, at the end of her career, reexamining the anomalous readings recorded in a fifty-year-old dataset reveals the paradoxical memory of an alternate reality of a crashed alien craft masked inside an extradimensional façade illusion.
Murine Sabah, a member of an ancient race known as the Arox, is the sole living occupant of the ship and the last survivor of the Ynys Môn, an Arox secular order. She learns too late that in her traumatic escape from the troubles of her home world, a sentient machine mind that had once waged war on her planet escaped its prison. Stripped of its memory, it knits a semblance of a mind from what it finds on the human internet and becomes Lurker. With the power of Earth’s resources at Lurker’s fingertips, the world slowly succumbs as this amalgam builds outward from his game space into reality, reconfiguring natural and temporal spaces.
In a contemporary reality parallel to ours, Sara, joined by other agents, discovers the true nature of the original anomaly when they find signals controlling a cult-like role-playing game known as Lurker originating from the crashed ship. Together, they form the core of resistance in a conflict with far-ranging consequences, further distorting reality and creating potentially dangerous doorways to other realms.
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A 1991 graduate of Temple University, I have lived in or near Philadelphia for most of my adult life. I am married and have three adult children. I work professionally in public health and have been active as an artist and a science fiction writer for many years. I love everything in the writing process, from imagining the story and characters to editing and re-editing. I am an avid reader and enjoy storytelling in all its forms. Reading every day inspires my writing. My current novels are available now on Amazon.