Set in a near-future American Southwest devastated by prolonged drought, the novel follows characters entangled in fights over scarce water and the policies, mercenaries, and markets that secure it.

On a forested alien world, an occupying human logging colony treats the native population as subjugated labor. Tensions escalate after an especially brutal crime, and a native leader mobilizes resistance against the colonists.

Two rival temporal agents working for opposing, mutually exclusive timelines exchange secret letters as they sabotage history on behalf of their employers.

In a near-future United States where virtual reality and neural implants shape online life, former underground hacker India Carless (Trouble) reunites with her ex-lover to confront someone impersonating her identity in cyberspace.

Set in a near-future speculative scenario, the novel follows people living under acute strain from changing social orders and gendered power dynamics. The immediate pressure comes from desperate survival choices and fraught relationships between men and women living within constrained, dangerous circumstances.

A small, stranded community faces a dire survival problem and must decide how to preserve life when resources and choices are scarce. The book stages debates, factions, and a mounting moral pressure as the group confronts whether and how to continue as a social unit under extreme conditions.