Aethereal Stories is a dark fantasy universe told across three Eras — Primordial, Mortal, and Modern — each recorded in its own Library. Every novel stands alone. Together they form a single interconnected mythology.
Begin with Cambion — a supernatural thriller, out now. The Long Dawn arrives 12 November.
A Standalone Novel · The Waking Library
Some things are better left buried.
Beirut, 1967. A few weeks old, through intermediaries nobody understood.
Maya Haddad raised the child anyway. Loved her anyway — through the war, through the years the girl said things she could not possibly have known, through the silence that grew once she left for good.
Eliana Haddad can touch a fossil and know the life that ended there. A name. A face. A morning that happened millions of years before her own. She has known since she was a girl in a city under bombardment that this is not a thing to say aloud.
So she becomes a paleoanthropologist instead. For ten years and ten field seasons — Ethiopia, France, Anatolia, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt — she reads the old bones for a living, and lets her colleagues believe her gift is simply instinct.
Her mother calls less often now. Neither of them says why.
The search will end somewhere Eliana never expected, and send her home at last — to a kitchen table, a box her father left behind, and a woman who has been keeping a question for thirty-six years.
Spanning a decade across the great sites of prehistory, from the Afar valley to a Beirut apartment on the morning of 14 February 2005, The Long Dawn is a novel about inheritance, exile, and the terrible patience of those who love us.
Out 12 November 2026
Pre-orders open late September
From the world of the novel
A Seven-Day Chronicle Series
Derbyshire has two maps. One is in the guidebooks. The other is drawn in landslips and legends, bottomless pits and boundary stones — seven real places, and the history the Saga is built on.
The Series Is Complete
All seven places stand recorded on the Chronicle.
Mam Tor · Peak Cavern · Eldon Hole · Creswell Crags · Arbor Low · Eyam · Lud’s Church
The universe in full
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From the desk
The Long Dawn is finished. My second novel — a standalone literary psychological thriller about a paleoanthropologist who can touch the past — releases on 12 November 2026, with pre-orders opening late September. Here is what it is, and where it came from.
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