Novel · Coming February 2027
The Aurelien Protocol
A novel
The Aurelien Protocol is a story about captivity, and about the will to resist when resistance looks pointless.
On its surface it is a story of an alien arrival and the rise of an artificial intelligence beyond anything humanity built. But the ships and the machines are not the heart of it. The heart of it is the people held inside the walls: how they hold on to who they are, what they are willing to risk for one another, and how a handful of survivors come to understand that being alive is not the same as being human.
It asks what a person owes the people beside them. Why some collaborate and some resist. What it costs to keep your humanity in a place built to strip it away, and where hope comes from when there is no reason left for it.
This is a novel about the human condition under occupation. The odds are impossible. The characters fight anyway.