The year is 2159. After more than a century marked by catastrophe, war, and environmental collapse, the world has reshaped itself in the name of survival. At the end of the 21st century, humanity unites around a promise of progress.
By 2093, nations dissolved into a single world government. Cities began rebuilding upward and outward. Vast vertical megaregions rose from the ruins of the old world, driving mass relocation into densely layered urban structures engineered for efficiency, stability, and control.
Life is governed by global systems and powerful corporate institutions that regulate both smart cities and their citizens, using data, modeling, and prediction to manage instability before it emerges. Data infrastructure, healthcare, resources, and information flow through interconnected networks designed to optimize society. The past still exists, but it lies buried beneath steel, concrete, and policy. History is not erased, only obscured.
The Transition Age Trilogy explores this world through the lives of those navigating its systems, questioning its promises, and uncovering what was lost in the pursuit of order.
Born into a world that believes history has been solved, the first generation of the Transition Age grows up inside cities governed by artificial systems designed to optimize human life. Stability is assumed, choice feels unnecessary, and the past is treated as something distant and irrelevant.
When Iris Vale escapes from beneath the city of Chicago, she begins to uncover unsettling gaps in her memories and identity. As she navigates a world built to prevent disruption, fragments of a hidden truth surface, challenging everything she was taught to believe.
Years before the events of Transition Age, a single city exposed the cracks beneath a carefully engineered future. In the aftermath of a catastrophic failure known as the Great Horizon Fault, the megaregion of Seattle became a test case the world would rather forget. Following her harrowing escape from a subterranean lab, Iris Vale is thrust into the center of a global conspiracy. Guided by the chilling firsthand account of a surviving mother and son...
Iris learns the historic disaster may not have been what everyone was told to believe. To stop a new and escalating threat from dismantling the world, Iris must venture into Seattle's irradiated ruins to search for answers in a void of quantum entanglement. What she may uncover in the shadows of the fallen city could challenge the future of the Transition Age, forcing everyone to question the mystery of the children who vanished that dark winter.
When long-suppressed truths break through the silence, the systems that once governed the world with absolute confidence begin to lose their grip. As hidden records and evidence emerge, the pristine illusion of the Transition Age unravels. What follows is not an immediate collapse, but uncertainty on a global scale. Thrust into the center of a failing world order, Iris Vale must navigate a society where global narratives are rapidly fracturing.
As institutional power collides with human unpredictability, Iris is forced to decide how far she is willing to go to protect the fragile emergence of a new era. In the thrilling conclusion to the trilogy, Iris confronts a future no longer guided by prediction or compliance. The Uncounted explores what happens when history can no longer be contained, forcing everyone to discover whether a world freed from certainty can still find its way forward.
Born into a world that believes history has been solved, the first generation of the Transition Age grows up inside cities governed by invisible systems designed to optimize human life. Stability is assumed, choice feels unnecessary, and the past is treated as something distant and irrelevant.
