When a white tower rises from the Atlantic, humanity meets Ray—an alien with earth-shattering power and the naive hope of being welcomed as an equal. He doesn’t want conquest. He wants belonging.
Anya Sidorov, a Russian baker dragged into the world’s spotlight, is the first person to treat him like neither a god nor a weapon, but a friend to contend with. Their unlikely bond teaches Ray warmth, trust, and the terrible discipline of restraint.
But human schemes do not relent, and Ray’s wrath follows in the catastrophic Chicago Event. The world calls it a massacre. Ray calls it proof he may not deserve to exist.
Exiled to the quiet of Sussex with the only people who will still accept him, he tries to earn forgiveness the slow way—by keeping house rules, helping people in need, and choosing gentleness again and again… even when vengeance would be effortless.
But living gently is harder than it looks, and Ray’s restraint will be tested like never before. The love of one family may be the only thing strong enough to hold back a force that could unmake nations.
Books
Ray: Kin and Kind
The Hearthfire Saga - Book 1
Ray: Kin and Kind is an 90,000-word adult upmarket speculative fiction novel blending intimate, character-driven conflict with global, existential stakes during first contact.
From the threat of cities burning to the bonds formed at a kitchen table, Ray: Kin and Kind is a luminous tale about found family, redemption, and the moral weight of loving someone who could burn the world.
Ray: The Bright Line
The Hearthfire Saga - Book 2
Seventeen people died in Chicago. Ray nearly made it billions.
Now Dr. Carson is building a weapon to finish what he began: The god-killer.
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When NASA’s first exoplanet colony mission places Ray under the command of Major Leslie Boyle, his restraint is tested in ways no family dinner ever could. But when tragedy reaches the people he loves—and an attempt on his own life—the old temptations return: overwhelming force, righteous fury, and the terrible simplicity of power.
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Against a nation preparing to annihilate him and his family, Ray must stop the weapons built to destroy him without becoming one himself. He must decide whether restraint is weakness—or the last thing keeping his soul intact.
And when the people he loves become the easiest way to hurt him, Ray must face the most dangerous question of all:
Is his family his greatest strength…
or his greatest vulnerability?
Ray: Love and Loss
The Hearthfire Saga - Book 3
Ray’s ever-growing family is ripped apart by a shadow from his past. Gathering the pieces, they flee across the world to find themselves among strangers, vulnerable, grieving, and healing.
But old enemies move in the darkness, and Ray is captured again. There is no quick escape this time.
He is broken. Afraid. Shattered.
His family—and the world— fear what he has become.
And what he will do.