Beyond the Fall
In a world cut to be flawless, where will humanity land?
Ellica Hartte has spent her career enforcing compliance in an AI-designed world, fleeing her rustic upbringing for the clean certainty of rational systems. But when she's assigned to investigate a pattern of unexplained deaths among test subjects, the evidence leads her toward an unsettling truth: The perfect structures she trusts may be devastatingly flawed.
Caught between the father she left behind, the partner she rejected, and a system that promises utopia, Ellica must confront what her pursuit of perfection has cost and whether being human means embracing the traits she's spent her life trying to escape.
Set in a society only a step away from our own, this literary dystopian novel asks,
What is it worth to be imperfectly human in a world geared for perfection?
Coming May 2026
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Once Again
An emotional, mind-bending story that questions time, memory, and fate
“Compelling, original, the kind of novel that will linger in the mind and memory...”
— Midwest Book Review
“Simultaneously a suspenseful and action-packed thriller, a meditation on grief and loss, and an examination of time and memory, Hope’s debut is not to be missed.”
— Booklist
“Thanks to its fascinating premise and to the strength of chapters told from her point of view, the book succeeds by constantly keeping the main character off balance.”
— New York Journal of Books
“Gripping, gut-churning, and heartfelt — full of lost and last chances.”
— Max Gladstone, Hugo, Nebula, and BSFA award-winning co-author of
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Winner of the Colorado Book Award
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