The city never sleeps.

It tosses and turns at night, sweating, writhing in the heat. Pulling the blankets off you, keeping you awake.

In the sixty years since The Fall of the former United States, what remained of the populace clustered together in a handful of megacities, scattered across the continent. The ashes of the old world left fertile ground for a new kind of power to grow; governments and mega-corporations formed symbiotic codependent relationships, like binary stars threatening to collapse in on each other in a terrifying supernova, but neither willing to break orbit.

Out of the ruins of Old Chicago sprang New Astoria. Bureaucracy and capitalism wrestled for control of the city, but the people knew the truth.

There was no controlling this place. Our movements ripple through the fabric of the streets. When you need something to hold onto, all you can do is grab onto a thread, and pull, and pray the whole thing doesn't unravel.

New Astoria is a sapphic cyberpunk thriller series, set in the late 21st century. It consists of three books and a narrative-driven adventure game.

The first book, SYNCHRONOUS, is planned for release mid-2025.