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Kevin Hincker - speculative fiction for curious readers

The History of Light series

Asher has ultraviolet eyes. And they’re killing him.

Asher Gale was a prodigy, but at 26 his painting career is dead. Now he’s managing his crazy from a bar stool in the secretive So Cal arts colony of Skysill Beach, moonlighting as an art authenticator. In Skysill Beach forgeries are everyone’s problem, but it’s all worse for Asher. He has ultraviolet eyes. And they have an agenda all their own.

When wealthy art dealer Waylon Goodman calls, Asher assumes it’s to expose another forgery. But Waylon's daughter, Samantha, is dead. After Asher finds ultraviolet paint on Samantha’s body where it should not be, her ultraviolet ghost begins to haunt him. And soon all the boundaries of Asher’s worlds are breaking.

The Ghost with a Knife at Her Throat is Book One of a five-book urban fantasy epic titled THE HISTORY OF LIGHT. It is a story cycle turning on Asher's discovery that no human alive should see ghosts because human beings no longer have ghosts—millennia ago, unknown hands cut our ghosts away. Now those hands have returned, and taken up the blade again, in The Ghost with a Knife at her Throat.

A DEBT TO THE STARS

Diana Roark didn’t begin life as the richest person in human history.

All she ever wanted was to solve impossible problems—like her father had. She's on a dangerous bio-prospecting mission in Earth’s deepest ocean when aliens orbit to make First Contact. She surfaces after a near fatal accident to find the aliens gone, and every human alive Augmented—except for her.

Thirty years pass, and the Earth is unrecognizable; following Augmentation humanity completely stopped aging, and all basic needs were dispensed free from alien Obelisks, creating a cascade of financial failure that swept the planet. Diana risked her company to rescue global markets, and in the process became immeasurably wealthy, but she remains the only human alive who sickens or ages, unable to use the Obelisks. And then after thirty years the aliens return. And this time they’re not feeling generous. They’ve come to take the planet, and Diana is the only person standing in their way.

“…unique, frantic, fun, and thought-provoking SF.” - Kirkus (starred review)

“…uproarious science fiction that gets readers thinking.” - BookLife (Editor’s Pick)

TW: The alien broccoli CPA who helps Diana save her planet uses profanity constantly. He’s an alien vegetable, so it’s charming, but he’s an adults only vegetable.

The Little Queen

They created her, then took her reason to live.

But when the Little Queen, a mother without a hive, adopts Anthony, a grieving boy, she will sacrifice anything to save what she finds: a new family, frightening yet wonderful.

From his birth mother Anthony inherits a bee hive—and the power to speak with bees. When she dies, her hive slips into ruin. Then he discovers the Little Queen, a remarkable bee fleeing a mysterious past, who takes charge of Anthony's hive and resurrects it, profoundly changed. But the future they are building is threatened by pursuers who want ownership of the Little Queen, and of everything she represents.

“Readers will fall in love with Anthony and his Little Queen.” KIRKUS

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The Einstein Object

Some enemies we make, and some we inherit.

When Preston discovers the programming language that powers Einstein's theory of relativity, he inherits a terrible enemy from his long dead grandfather, an enemy who will stop at nothing to regain what she has lost.

On his twelfth birthday an ad for a mysterious course in computer programming injures Preston's hands so he misses several months of school. When he returns he finds the world somehow altered. His old friends avoid him. The only people who like him now are strange kids from the programming club. And though his new, inexplicable skills in Algebra are useful, he’s also having nightmares that don’t add up: dark matter is missing from the universe, and his neighborhood is overrun by Dark Folk.

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