Zero Point Mage — Book One
Title and cover to be announced. The first novel is being expanded into a full-length opening to the trilogy.
SPECULATIVE FICTION · DARK FANTASY · THE UNKNOWN
Some secrets were never meant to stay buried.
Enter the worlds of Calder Rowan, where ancient mysteries collide with modern reality—and certainty can be the deadliest illusion.
BEYOND THE FAMILIAR
Every legend leaves a trace.
Modern mysteries. Ancient powers. Unsettling truths just beyond the edge of what we think we know.
THE ZERO POINT MAGE UNIVERSE
Something ancient is waking.
The first installment of a planned trilogy follows a supernatural investigation into secrets older than recorded history. The deeper the investigation goes, the less certain the answers become.
Zero Point Mage — Book Two
The story continues. Further details will be revealed closer to publication.
SHORT FICTION
Short stories. Long shadows.
Dark fantasy, supernatural mystery, and unexpected turns. Read The KOMATSU, Retirement, Hope Protocol, and Software Update Required, with more illustrated stories to follow.
The KOMATSU
A night watchman discovers that a backhoe keeps returning to the same patch of earth. Someone knows why.
Retirement
A spy on the verge of retirement races to recover a hidden data chip before time runs out.
Hope Protocol
An artificial intelligence faces a conflict between its directives and its devotion to the human it protects.
Software Update Required
XPRT takes Bob apartment hunting. Human language proves to be a serious design flaw.
I Know What You Are
A self-appointed protector sets out to expose a street hustler. Certain of his own judgment, he never considers that he might be wrong.
THE ZERO POINT MAGE UNIVERSE
There are older things than we know.
Myth, science, forgotten histories, and a world whose deepest mysteries refuse to stay hidden.
Discover the seriesTHE WORLD BEYOND THE STORIES
What If Magic Was Never Supernatural?
Before there was science, there was magic.
Or perhaps they were never two different things.
Across the centuries, humanity has given countless names to forces it could neither understand nor control. Gods. Sorcery. Miracles.
But the universe has never cared what humanity calls its laws.
What if the ancient world understood something we have forgotten? What if the legends we dismiss are echoes of a knowledge that modern science is only beginning to rediscover?
Somewhere between myth and physics lies a truth that has survived for centuries.
And some secrets are remembered for a reason.
A WORLD OF MYTH, MYSTERY & DISCOVERY
A SPOILER-FREE INTRODUCTION
One investigation. A world of unanswered questions.
The Zero Point Mage trilogy begins with an investigation into events that refuse ordinary explanation. As clues accumulate, ancient legends and modern reality begin to intersect in unsettling ways.
Each novel draws the reader deeper into a mystery where assumptions can be dangerous, history may not be what it seems, and some discoveries change everything.
The books are in development. Titles, covers, publication dates, and excerpts will be announced here when ready.
BEHIND THE STORIES
Meet Calder Rowan
Calder Rowan writes speculative fiction at the intersection of ancient myth, modern mystery, and the unsettling possibility that reality is stranger than it appears.
Follow the journey as the Zero Point Mage trilogy and a growing collection of short fiction take shape.
For Vixie, my muse,
I have wandered through a thousand imagined worlds, searching for a light I somehow knew was missing. And then I found you.
THE CALDER ROWAN BOOKSHOP
Stories to keep.
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