The Dark Dominion Sequence

Sarai izt Kviokhi wakes on a desolate moon with no memory, severe injuries, and a pregnancy that shouldn’t exist. The child growing inside her belongs to The Name—the immortal god-emperor who has ruled humanity for three thousand years. Her body is proof that his entire system is a lie.

She is—or was—an Immortal. One of the Dominion’s most lethal operatives, a super-soldier enhanced with nanotechnology and engineered to kill. She belongs to the Anathema, the slave caste in a galaxy where masters and servants are divided by genetics. Reproduction between castes isn’t difficult or unlikely. It’s biologically impossible—the theological bedrock of a three-thousand-year tyranny. Except it happened. And the pregnancy is amplifying her psionic abilities beyond anything the Dominion has ever seen, or can control.

All Sarai wants is to vanish and raise her daughter in peace. But her womb is political property. Ancient prophecies name her the warrior-prophetess destined to overthrow the false god, and her unborn daughter the True Heir to a stolen dynasty. Abolitionists hunt her as their symbol. The Dominion hunts her as a threat. Religious zealots hunt her as either messiah or blasphemy. The only way to protect her child is to become the revolution she never wanted.

Every faction wants her for what she represents. Only one person wants her for who she is—and he was sent to kill her.

Mikhael is a fellow Immortal, a teleporting, fire-wielding super-soldier with one hundred and ninety-seven confirmed kills—and counting. The Dominion sent him to eliminate a rogue operative. When he recognizes his target as the woman he lost years ago through his own impatience, he chooses treason without hesitation.

Sarai doesn’t remember him. She doesn’t remember anything. And the violation that left her pregnant has made the thought of intimacy terrifying—forcing a man engineered to be a strategic weapon to learn the one thing the Dominion never prepared him for: gentleness.

“Let me try,” he tells her. “Let me try to make you love me again.”

He doesn’t fight for the cause, revenge, or glory. He doesn’t care about any of that. He fights for a family he was told he could never have.

The Foundational Duology

Immortal and Godsbane form a complete two-act structure that functions as a standalone duology while setting the stage for a planned five-book sequence.

Immortal is a fugitive thriller that narrows from galactic conspiracy to the fierce intimacy of early motherhood and rekindled love under impossible conditions. Sarai must survive long enough to give birth while unraveling what she’s forgotten: why The Name wants her dead, what the prophecies surrounding her daughter truly mean, and whether the man sent to kill her can become her salvation instead. It’s a story about what happens when motherhood destroys everything you are—when pregnancy reshapes not just your body but your identity, and the child growing inside you won’t let you hide from a destiny you never asked for.

Godsbane follows Sarai six months later as she steps out of hiding and into the role the galaxy has already written for her—but the woman built for shadows has to become a public symbol, and the revolution she ignites proves far messier than prophecy promised. Her daughter has been taken by those who see the child as divine artifact rather than person. Rival factions weaponize her image for competing agendas. The Name responds with propaganda, military might, and psychological warfare designed to shatter her credibility. The book escalates from guerrilla resistance to fleet-scale conflict while tracking the cost of becoming what others need you to be—and the distance that opens between who Sarai is and what the revolution demands she perform.

What Comes After

This is where most space opera would end—with tyranny defeated and the righteous triumphant. Dark Dominion continues for three more books because killing a god doesn’t kill the world he built.

Books 3–5 follow Sarai’s daughter Mikhalah as she grows from childhood through adolescence in a galaxy that named her savior before she could speak and hasn’t stopped telling her what she’s meant to be since. The structures that sustained three millennia of oppression don’t collapse when the tyrant falls. They adapt, persist, and find new masters. Revolutionary factions replicate the very hierarchies they bled to destroy. And the child Sarai sacrificed everything to protect is developing her own mind, her own convictions, and her own fury at a destiny she never chose.

The sequence’s final movement asks what happens when prophecy meets a young woman who refuses to fulfill it on anyone’s terms but her own.

For Readers

Dark Dominion is a story about what it costs to be a woman when your body becomes political property. Fierce motherhood and desperate love set against galactic revolution and the fall of an immortal god. Prophecy that tightens like a noose around the people it claims to exalt. And victories that demand everything and fix nothing.

For Agents

My commercial track record with Doomsday Recon(credited as co-authored with Jason Anspach) demonstrates I can deliver accessible genre fiction with literary craft, build worlds at scale, and sustain reader engagement across extended narratives. The nearly half-million-word trilogy hit Amazon’s Top 7,000 for over six weeks (peaking in the low 2,000s), earned 4.7 stars across 1,500+ reviews, sold thousands of copies, and generated six million Kindle Unlimited page reads—in its first year alone.

Ryan is an exceptionally talented writer—absolutely on the shortlist of the best writers I’ve worked with in my fifteen-year career.

David Gatewood, Editor-in-Chief

I am currently seeking representation for Immortal(131K words) and Godsbane (134K words), the foundational duology for the planned five-book Dark Dominion Sequence.

Both manuscripts are complete and available upon request.