A near-future romance about a protagonist whose life intersects with an artificial intelligence; the central pressure comes from navigating attraction, personal safety, and ethical uncertainty in a world where intimate tech complicates consent and trust.

Amina Al-Sirafi is a seafaring adventurer drawn back into one last dangerous voyage that mixes piracy, treasure-seeking, and ancient, magical mysteries.

A short, focused novel that follows a small group of characters as they face a pressure introduced by a speculative technological or environmental condition.

A multi-part novel that follows members of a single Irish family across interlinked sections, each devoted to one of four family figures.

Set in a rural Southern backwater, the novel follows Miranda Crabtree, who runs contraband for a local preacher-sheriff to survive and to protect an old woman and a child who fled his home years earlier. Miranda faces escalating danger when she’s asked to make one last, fraught delivery involving that same preacher.

A fantasy set across a floating-archipelago empire where bone shard magic powers constructs and enforces imperial control.

A contemporary American family becomes entangled with unexplained, possibly supernatural occurrences that surface long-buried trauma and danger. The story places intimate domestic fractures next to uncanny events, creating a pressure between ordinary family life and escalating, mysterious threat.

A meditation on eels that interweaves the species’ baffling lifecycle and scientific search with the author’s personal reflections. The book traces biological questions about migration and reproduction while using those puzzles as a lens for broader natural-history investigation and memoir-inflected curiosity.

Set in a historical social world, the novel focuses on women negotiating marriage, reputation, and intimacy within strict social codes. The central pressure comes from private desires and social constraint: a developing romantic relationship unfolds through constrained public behavior and more candid private exchanges.