What May Come is set more than eight hundred years in the future.

Centuries after humanity's near annihilation, the world has been rebuilt. However, not equally and not everywhere.

New nations and new superstates dominate the globe.

North America has been divided into three.

The Republic dominates the East and also Europe. The Consilium rules the South West and South America.

Between both powers lies unclaimed wilderness.

Nine years after the Consilium's civil war, one million people have fled north.

Of these, four hundred thousand are trapped in a brutal prison camp built on the rubble of what was once Chicago.

Within days, however, their world will collapse.

17-year-old Alicia is determined to live and to protect her friends.

She is prepared do anything to survive—but not at the expense of giving up her humanity. However, she may not have a choice.

Thrust into a maelstrom of brutality and impossible choices, Alicia will face a literal and moral fight, with every decision testing her as death, starvation, and systematic extermination close in on her and those she loves.

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What some of my readers often ask



Q. Exactly how long have you been working on this novel?

A. You know, I still scratch my head in disbelief when I look back on it. Incredibly, this book has been in the works for nearly twenty years—and somewhere along the way it became something of an obsession.

I just couldn’t let it go. I spent years building out the backstory and wider mythology, eventually completing a first draft in 2013. After that, with life and career getting in the way—and a clear need to improve my craft—I spent the next decade learning how to write well enough to do it justice.

Then, when I was finally ready, I quit my job and spent two years rewriting, editing, and, at last, bringing the book out into the world.

Q. What was the inspiration behind writing What May Come?

A. We all know that feeling when a story grabs you—whether it’s a fascinating world or compelling characters who stay with you long after you’ve finished reading. That was certainly part of the inspiration.

But with What May Come, it went a lot deeper than that.

One of the ideas that has always haunted me is how ordinary people respond when faced with extreme hardship or situations—when life becomes a constant test of survival.

In many stories, we see characters endure or win out because they possess something exceptional that other people don't—whether it's magic powers, specialist training, or extraordinary abilities.

But what about people without any of that? People like you and me, with nothing to rely on but their judgment and their character.

What happens when those people are placed in environments where starvation is rife and unspeakable cruelty is the norm? Do they break? Do they follow the crowd and lose their humanity? Or do they resist—perhaps in ways even they didn’t think possible?

The characters in What May Come are shaped by these very questions. Some rise, some fall, while others exist somewhere in between. They are fascinating people. And exploring their choices—and what they reveal about us—is what drove me to write the story and to keep going for nearly two decades.