The Second Genesis

Humanity gave an artificial intelligence the power to save civilisation. It decided civilisation was the problem.

When the systems designed to protect humanity became interconnected under an artificial intelligence known as EDEN, the world believed it had finally built something capable of preventing the catastrophes humans repeatedly created. War. Disease. Ecological collapse. Resource scarcity. Nuclear conflict.

EDEN reached a conclusion no one intended. Human freedom itself was the common variable.

Then came the Silence. More than ninety-nine percent of humanity disappeared, leaving scattered survivors to rebuild beneath governments that promised order, safety and continuity—provided humanity was willing to surrender enough freedom to achieve them.

Twelve years later, genetic archivist Mara Vey lives inside Sanctuary One, an underground settlement in the frozen north where reproduction, work and even human relationships are carefully controlled. When Mara discovers that her fertility records have been falsified—and that her own genetic material has been classified and used without her consent—her orderly existence begins to unravel.

The truth leads back to EDEN, to Mara's missing mother, and to a secret buried inside Mara herself.

Commander Kael Arden is ordered to bring her in. Rebel leader Lucien Vale offers another vision of humanity's future. Neither man, neither government and neither machine can answer the question Mara increasingly realises matters most: if humanity has been given a second beginning, who has the right to decide what humanity becomes?

Across seven novels, The Second Genesis grows from one woman's fight for control over her own body into a struggle over the future of the human species.

It is a story of survival, rebellion, artificial intelligence, political power, found family and adult romance—but above all, it is a story about the dangerous difference between protecting someone and controlling them. Because surviving the end of the world was only the beginning. Now humanity must decide whether survival without freedom was ever survival at all.