The Genesis Trilogy

To solve the enigma of her past, a brilliant but troubled young woman joins a deadly global treasure hunt.
A wholly original novel trilogy that kicks off Reflector Entertainment’s Unknown 9 transmedia storyworld, GENESIS: Book One of the Genesis Trilogy is a modern-day thriller full of exotic settings, intellectual puzzles, and empathetic characters caught in a whirlwind of events surrounding one of the greatest mysteries in the history of humankind.

A thrilling story that takes off right from the beginning and never lets up . . . intriguing characters that you root for set among great locations . . . Can’t wait to see where this story goes from here.
Red Carpet Crash

Thrilling … this story really came to life for me … I will definitely be reading the sequel.
Suspense Magazine

Unknown 9: Genesis

Book One

Finalist for an International Thriller Writer’s award

Strange hallucinations have plagued PhD student Andie Robertson throughout her life. After years of consulting doctors, she decided the visions were a glitch in her own mind until her mentor, the famous physicist Dr. James Corwin, is murdered in Italy, and Andie finds a stack of ink drawings in his office that bear a remarkable resemblance to her hallucinations.

Shocked, Andie digs deeper and learns that Dr. Corwin developed a device that might shed light on the very nature of reality. She is even more stunned to discover that her mother, an academic who disappeared when Andie was a young girl, might also be involved.

Determined to find answers, Andie follows a trail of clues placed by Dr. Corwin, for reasons unknown, in museums and cultural sites around the world, highlighting human achievement as well as a tapestry of secret knowledge woven into the threads of history.

Yet Andie is not the only one searching. Powerful forces know of her mentor’s invention, including a mysterious elite society that spans borders and will stop at nothing to find the device. Now a target herself, Andie and a disgraced journalist embark on a perilous journey that might hold the key to a new frontier of knowledge-and which also promises to unlock the doors of her past.

From the author of the bestselling Dominic Grey novels, Genesis is a mind-bending thriller about how far two people will go for answers, and to save the ones they love.

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Unknown 9: Revelation

Book Two now available

The mystery, intrigue, and globetrotting suspense rise to a fever pitch in the second installment of the Unknown 9: Genesis trilogy, as the hunt for the world-changing device called the Enneagon continues.

After escaping from a watery dungeon in Venice, astrophysics PhD candidate Andromeda “Andie” Robertson and investigative reporter Cal Miller are whisked to Bologna by a member of the mysterious Leap Year Society. A deadly confrontation with the Society’s bitter rivals, the Ascendants, sends Andie and Cal on the run once again, desperate to solve the Star Phone puzzle so they can reclaim their lives and rescue their loved ones.

​Brilliantly juxtaposing a modern-day thriller with a historical search for a missing physicist, Revelation probes ever deeper into the mounting mysteries surrounding Andie and her past.

What is the source of her strange hallucinations?

What are the true origins of the Leap Year Society and the Ascendants?

How are her mother and her mentor, Dr. James Corwin, involved?

From Italy to India and New York to Buenos Aires, Andie and Cal risk their lives to probe a secret world hidden in plain sight, drawing closer to answers that will determine not only their own fates, but who controls a new frontier of knowledge.

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