CIVIL: TRue North

Coming – June 2026

A book titled 'CIVIL' by Jane Gancee Baker stands on a wooden table in a cozy cafe setting, with a white coffee cup filled with coffee beside it and a blurred background of warm hanging lights and brick walls.

In the ruins of America’s second civil war, the woman known as the Raven is being hunted for murder.

The Raven—Rachel Waterman—survived a U.S. detention camp called True North. She escaped by killing the guard who raped her.

To Captain Chet Miller, the Raven is the woman who murdered his best friend. He tracks her across a country turned upside down, expecting a simple reckoning.

But the Raven has vanished into an off-grid sanctuary where survivors of the war are trying to build something almost impossible: a life after everything they’ve done.

As Chet closes in, the lines between enemy and survivor blur. The woman he came to confront may not be the monster he imagined—and the man he believed he was may no longer exist.

In a nation fractured by civil war, the hardest thing to face isn’t the enemy—it’s the person you’ve become.

In the tradition of Omar El Akkad’s American War and Alex Garland's film Civil War—a journey through a morally fractured country, toward something that might be hope.

Dark Bird Press

A woman wearing glasses, a tan beanie, and a black jacket with colorful stripes on the sleeves is smiling while holding a large potted plant indoors.

Me and my emotional support plant.

In the works

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CIVIL Book Two

CIVIL: Southern Comfort

Sometimes making peace is more dangerous than waging war.

Rachel Waterman is willing to stake everything on the hope that the right thing, done for the right reasons, might actually matter.

It's a beautiful idea — and in a better world, it might even be true. In this world, promises are broken and men betray their word. Rachel is about to pay the ultimate price for being wrong.

Chet Miller knows the math of survival — what you hold onto, what you let go, what you tell yourself at the end of the day. But watching an innocent person die because the people who gave their word couldn't be bothered to keep it — that's a different equation entirely.

Every choice you make has a price.

Southern Comfort — because in this world, peace was never going to be free.

A book titled "Daughter of Sand and Magic" by Jeanne Gransee Barker standing upright on a wooden surface, featuring a desert landscape with sand dunes and a starry night sky with cosmic colors and glowing streaks of light.

DARK FANTASY

Daughter of Sand and Magic

The only thing more dangerous than having no power, is having too much.

Aramaath, a desert king's teenage daughter, was raised to be a bargaining chip — trained to be handed off to a stranger as a wife. But when a foreign woman brings a talisman that awakens a forbidden magic within her, she becomes something no one in her world is prepared for.

When her father's kingdom burns, Aramaath flees into a desert full of enemies. The refuge she finds is a trap. The holy city that takes her in is a prison. And the man who hunts her wants something far worse than her life.

Everyone wants to control her power. She's done letting them.