The Guilt of the Good

Adult Science-Fantasy | ~91,000 words

Jacob Hardwyn has spent most of his life believing one thing: he killed his mother. His nightmares return every year on his birthday—the flames that burst from his skin, the scream that he can't forget, and a father who has never let him speak of it.

Still living in the same cabin they all shared while she was alive, everything William has built for Woodland Falls was meant to protect it. Everything he's hidden from Jacob was meant to do the same. When William sends him on one last job before the town's annual festival, the truth Jacob has been chasing since he was six finds him first—and what it sets in motion, not even his father can contain.

THE GUILT OF THE GOOD is an adult science fantasy about the wreckage that love leaves behind when it refuses to let go—blending the emotional complexity of R.F. Kuang’s BABEL with the family-driven quest and quiet wonder of Samantha Sotto Yambao's WATER MOON.

"What a father hides shapes a son."