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Historical fiction, dual timeline

The Tidewater Novels

by Deb Conenna

You land on a barrier island off the Cape Fear, half in 1954 and half in now. Each book opens on a wreck the record never accounted for: storms, salvage, and inheritance, and a present-day descendant who has to decide what to do about what the past left behind.

For readers who travel to find their own history, not just someone else's.

PlacesSouthport, NC · Battery Island · the Cape Fear River

Start with: The Tides of Battery Island, Book One. Three novelettes in one edition. Forthcoming in ebook, paperback, and audiobook.

Sports romance, three countries

The Festival League

by Nick Conenna

One hot summer on the Costa Brava. A pitch, a rivalry, and the ninety minutes, plus stoppage time, in which everything can still change.

Each book is played in a new place, in a new key: heavy stakes in Spain, a season of second chances in Portugal, and a lighter, funnier turn in the Swiss Alps.

PlacesCosta Brava · Porto and Lisbon · Valais

1. Stoppage TimeCosta Brava, Spain · Ebook available now, paperback coming soon, audiobook in production
2. Clean SheetPorto and Lisbon, Portugal · In development
3. The Through BallValais, Switzerland · In development
4. More matchdays to come

Alternate-history space fiction, standalone

To Stay

by Nick Conenna

The Apollo astronauts went to the Moon to visit. What if, the next time, we had gone to stay?

A small change in the space program ripples through sixty years of alternate history, out to Voyager 1's real crossing of the heliopause, where the Sun's wind gives way to interstellar space. At the center is Dante Fiorenza, from a family of Tuscan fresco restorers, people whose whole trade is making things last.

PlacesSiena and Florence · low Earth orbit · the Moon · the heliopause

Ebook and paperback. Audiobook in production.

Thriller series, four books

The Cubit and the Quark

by Nick Conenna

Money, measurement, and time are the oldest things people agree on, and the easiest to quietly rewrite. Every unit began as a piece of a human body: a forearm, a stride, an outstretched pair of arms.

The series opens with The Pace, a story that runs from the Reed Gold Mine in North Carolina to the law now deciding what counts as digital money, with a prayer in Aramaic and the difference between chronos and kairos running underneath.

PlacesNorth Carolina · Texas · Florida · orbit and the research lab

1. The PaceBook I · Ebook and paperback available now, audiobook in production
2. The FathomBook II · In the works
3. The BreathBook III · In the works
4. The StandardBook IV · In the works