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After a chase across modern America in Book One, the AMERICA Series takes readers across five centuries and two continents from a global nuclear conflict to pre-colonial North America, Columbus’s 1492 expedition, the heights of the Aztec and Incan empires, and finally to the moment Europe came with purpose and knowledge to conquer and colonize the Americas. Through these journeys, the series confronts the moral burden of intervention — whether altering history prevents destruction or merely accelerates it. Deep research reveals ignored, forgotten and denied historical truths embedded in the fiction.

Across all five books, the AMERICA Series asks readers a question that grows harder with each book: If given the chance to alter history, should we?

What Must Be Stopped

The AMERICA Series — Book One

What Must Be Stopped

Crime Thriller FBI Nuclear Crisis Present Day

In the present day, the Middle East teeters on the edge of nuclear catastrophe that Kenneth Robinson of the Joint Staff Crisis Action Team is struggling to contain. Relentless FBI Agent Heather McLaughlin is assigned to thwart domestic terrorism carried out by two suspects, Alex Lee and Clay Nelson, who are racing to stay ahead of the Bureau in order to achieve their goal.

Into the Unknown

The AMERICA Series — Book Two

Into the Unknown

Historical Fiction Time Travel Pre-Colonial America Columbus

After a surprising end to Book One, Clay Nelson and his companions journey south through pre-colonial North America, encountering the Susquehannock, Timucua and other tribes in a portrayal of indigenous life rarely given this depth or diversity. Intercut with their journey are chapters aboard Columbus’s 1492 expedition — presenting him not as a hero or a villain, but a devout and vain man navigating politics, faith, a mutiny, competing loyalties, and deliberate sabotage.

A New World

The AMERICA Series — Book Three

A New World

Historical Fiction Time Travel Columbus Columbus

After Columbus’s first landfall, Clay Nelson boards the Santa María and attempts to turn the tide of history. He warns Columbus he has reached the Garden of Eden, and that to claim it is to reenact the Fall. Martín Pinzón counters with sharp ambition and reasoning. What follows is a race between two visions of the New World — one rooted in faith, stewardship, and restraint; the other in conquest and wealth. Both parties race back to Europe, and in trying to prevent history, Clay may have inadvertently accelerated it.

What Must Be Saved

The AMERICA Series — Book Four

What Must Be Saved

Historical & Speculative Fiction Time Travel South America 1490s

The Aztec and Incan empires are at their height. According to the half-earth philosophy of E.O. Wilson and the research behind Charles Mann’s 1491, human population is the problem. A mission with conflicting ethics challenges those who seek to do right by the hindsight of history.

The Unconquered

The AMERICA Series — Book Five

The Unconquered

Historical & Speculative Fiction Time Travel Early 1500s Age of Conquest

Europe now knows the Americas represents untold wealth. Ships carrying soldiers, priests, and disease prepare to bring this wealth back to Europe, in line with our real-world history. How can time-travelers and natives thwart this? They have faced tough odds before, but never odds like these, and never with so much at stake. How much does knowledge and weapons from the future tip the scales of history?

A Note on History and Fiction

A chapter-by-chapter commentary distinguishing documented history from authorial reconstruction, and outlining the cultural, ecological, and archival foundations underlying the narrative — including materially significant but lesser-emphasized details uncovered through research. These revealed historical elements were too often purposefully overlooked or not prioritized by those who first recorded the era. Atypically, these book notes, for the interested reader, contain as much suspense, frustration, injustice, and revelation as the fiction in the AMERICA Series.