The Callaghan Trilogy · Book 1
Providence 2025
That’s Not Fiction, That’s Tuesday
Maeve Callaghan audits compliance systems for a living. She makes sure they work, makes sure they’re clean. She never asked who they served — until Bristol, December 2025, when the system she’s been auditing turns out to have been building synthetic citizens from real people’s data. Her brother Liam’s identity is inside one of them. What started as a routine audit becomes something she can’t file a report on.
Near-future surveillance thriller · Bristol, UK · Complete draft — at reader review stage
The Callaghan Trilogy · Book 2
The Road Between
A fantasy journey through ancient woodland. Maeve faces a choice between the Path of Light and the Path of Shadow — and discovers that the safe choice carries hidden costs of its own. The second novel in the Callaghan Trilogy, set in a world where the path you take shapes more than just the road ahead.
Fantasy · Forest of Dean, UK · Structure complete — ready for assembly
The Callaghan Trilogy · Book 3
Tales from the Grid
The world that remains when the systems fail permanently. Post-collapse survival — what does community look like after the grid goes down for good? The final chapter of the Callaghan Trilogy asks what we hold onto when everything we built to hold us together is gone.
Post-collapse survival · Concept phase
Reading Order
The three novels are connected but can be read independently. Providence 2025 is the recommended entry point — it introduces Maeve at her most grounded, in a world that’s recognisably our own. The Road Between is Book 2 chronologically. Tales from the Grid is the final chapter, set furthest from the present.
All three novels follow Maeve Callaghan and explore the same theme: systems don’t arrive fully formed. They accumulate until they feel inevitable.
