A novel

Nowhere to Run

Near-future thriller · 2026

“We have given it the keys to humanity for the past half a century. It knows us inside out, predicts our movements, our choices, our behaviors. It knows us better than we know ourselves. What have we done?”

I started writing this in 2023, when most of us still hadn’t decided whether to be excited about AI or afraid of it. I was leaning afraid.

Nowhere to Run is set a few years out from now, in the hills of east Tennessee. The wells have gone dry, the grid has thinned to a thread, and most of the work was quietly handed over to machines. It follows two families holding their ground in those hills, a young scientist with second thoughts about what she’s built, and the slow, unsettling realization that they may not be alone in their own heads.

It’s a story about what we let into our lives without asking too many questions. It’s also a story about people who keep showing up for each other when nothing else holds. I wrote it scared. I finished it somewhere closer to hopeful.