The Dark Dominion Sequence

Sarai wakes in a nomad’s tent with no memory and seven men killed by her hands cooling in the dunes where a casteless clan of untouchables found her. She should be dead herself. Whatever she was, she was a weapon—and the regenerative nanoculture that rebuilt her shattered brain should have purged the unborn.

It didn’t.

Fragments of a half-memory assault her, revealing the father is The Name, a god incarnate who cursed her people to be his slaves, and has ruled the ten thousand worlds of his Dominion for one hundred generations. A child of that union is genetically incompatible heresy made flesh: proof the pure can breed with the marked. There is no greater blasphemy in the galaxy, and no secret a god will spend more lives to silence.

The assassin sent to erase her quietly is an Immortal like her—a man she loved in the life she can’t remember. Face to face, he defects instead. With a devout clan girl who has staked her life on the prophecy Sarai might be, the three of them go to ground in a galaxy set ablaze, hunted by zealots, spies, and a revolution that has waited millennia for this child. To all of them Sarai is a relic of prophecy, the Sword and Chalice, the weapon that ends a god and the vessel that carries the True Heir. None of them has reckoned with what she’s becoming: something the Dominion built better than it knew, who now refuses to answer to anyone.

If the galaxy wants its champion, it will be on her terms.

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.

In Godsbane the fire Sarai’s pregnancy lit becomes open war. The galaxy that wanted to use her now marches under her name—and the Dominion that bred her answers insurgency with nanoplagues and the crucifixion of children. To end it, she will have to walk into The Name’s own sanctum and face what he did to her. But the war’s cruelest math has nothing to do with the throne. Something older and hungrier is waiting in the dark between stars, and it understands what even Sarai can’t see: the prophecy was never about conquering a god.

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.

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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 standalone foundational duology of the Dark Dominion sequence echoing the indoctrinated-soldier reckoning of Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory and religious-political machinery of Emery Robin’s The Stars Undying. 

Both manuscripts are complete and available upon request. Please direct inquiries to contact@ryanwilliamson.com.