NOTE: YOU CAN REQUEST THE ENTIRE FIRST TRILOGY.  Just search for "Nemecene".

Episodes 1 and 2 are currently in stores but are available on NetGalley while the new Episode 3 ARC is available for requests. (pub data. Mar. 6/2018).

This series is designed for readers who want to become the characters who are narrating and discover the world from the inside of their heads with their unique voices, actions, and emotions at times lyrical, cryptic, dramatic, broken, silly, or introspective.

SYNOPSIS (Episode 1, series "Nemecene")

In a toxic future flooded by dead oceans and poisonous gases, twins Keeto and Elize become the target of an otherworldly predator in their quest to save Elize from their mother’s fate.

The mystery surrounding their mother does more than evoke painful memories. It has been plaguing Elize’s nightmares for 9 years as she shows increasing evidence of the psychological sickness for which their mother was confined, and apparently died from.

Keeto, an armchair archeologist and risk-averse bookworm, fears that their oppressive and deceitful father will find out, and have the daring quick-witted Elize committed, as well. With the help of an underground merchant community, the twins, now 18,  escape from their secluded highland village to Eadonberg, the infamously stunning floating coastal city protected inside an invisible biowall.  

Elize befriends Zafarian, a dweeby classmate with expertise in gadgetry and law-breaking, and with the most unusual hair. Keeto does not approve. A shadow of distrust follows the boys as the trio become increasingly entangled in a conspiracy and a mysterious stranger taunting them with clues.

However, what lurks below the waters parallels the darkness the twins discover as they settle into their new identities: Elize, a medical student at Schrödinger University, and Keeto, an apprentice curator at the Museum of Antiquities.

As tough-girl Elize’s stability deteriorates, she comes to terms with her fragility. With so many people, looking for the twins, some knowing their importance, others guessing at it, still others fooled by layers of deception, and the twins having no awareness of any of it, loyalties get tested.

Not even the Unification, can protect them. In fact, its own secret drive to locate the twins summons still others to the hunt — others whose true intentions remain hidden.

Will Keeto and Elize find the answers in time? Or will the questioning lead them down a dangerous path where treachery, lies, and deceit reside?

Enter the Nemecene™ World, where the real answers are waiting for you to discover them...before they discover you.

Be prepared.

MEET THE NARRATORS

The novel has three narrators whose timelines cross and move forward as the story unfolds.

NATHRUYU: She moves through time with the balletic grace of a tantric ninja.

These gemstone eyes are watching you and they will leave you wanting, either for more, either for less, but wanting nonetheless.
     In Nathruyu’s world, there is no first person narrative and no third person detachment, since such a distinction only exists as an illusion of the mind. There is only a visceral experience through the entity that animates her flesh. If her narration seems obscure or her vocabulary provocative, they are. Every word is an intention designed to suspend time through the void in which she glides. Nothing is by happenstance.
     So keep a dictionary handy and feel Nathruyu’s pace as she expresses herself through rhythm, and sometimes through rhyme, for this is the voice that defines her kind.

ELIZE: Her restless tough-girl attitude betrays her splintered mind.

Keet is such a pup. Honestly. There’s nothing mystical about my nightmares. It’s a scientific fact that dreams are just our brain’s way of processing things. And in my case, it’s simply trauma nothing more. Keet’s afraid I’ll get lost in some mental void like Mother and that Father will commit me to the GHU. That’s where Mother died. Wipe that image. No more tears. Good. So we’re keeping everything hush. Crazed, eh? Anyway, I hope he’s wrong. Better keep the voices to myself. Everybody hears some. They just won’t admit it. It’s not considered normal. Right. Normal. At least, we’ll be gone soon and maybe even…Crap! No. Not now.
     Breathe, Eli, breathe. Here he comes. Breathe. Act normal.

KEETO: His courage hides inside the cocoon of an armchair archaeologist.

Time has not filled the void you left when Eli and I were just nine years old. As I cloister myself here, sprinkling the pages of another journal with my emotions, I image that you see through my eyes, and write through my quill. It is this insanity that keeps me sane while my days spent digging for answers to questions that constantly change consume my sheltered life. If only your spirit could materialize into the Mother I need you to be once again. But reality reminds me otherwise. My only hope is that connecting with you, in these quiet and sometimes not so quiet moments of reflection, will uncover truths that liberate us all.
     But will they come soon enough?

Episode 1, Nemecene: The Epoch of Redress ( ISBN 978-1-988814-00-1) and Episode 2, Nemecene: The Gadlin Conspiracy (ISBN 978-1-988814-01-8) are currently available in stores across Canada and the US and via your favorite online retailers.

Episode 3, Nemecene: Through Fire and Ice ( ISBN 978-1-988814-02-5) is NOW available as an Advance Reading Copy (printed copies available from the publisher directly) and launching March 6th, 2018 in stores across North America..

Aguacene Publishing, Inc. is a Toronto-based boutique eco-publisher with a water stewardship mission. All books are printed using top-of-the-line FSC full-chain certified paper which is 100% recycled, and the book covers use no plastic coatings. A portion of the profits from the publishing company feed the Aguacene™ Fund at Tides Canada Foundation, whose focus is to finance NGOs and special projects concentrating on local and global water initiatives such as: water quality and conservation, ocean and watershed protection, action-based water education, arctic and antarctic health, research, monitoring, tracking, and other related initiatives. Aguacene titles are distributed by National Book Network, Inc.