The future looks exactly like now.
That’s the part that should scare you.
WHAT I WRITE
I write horror, dystopian fiction, and dark satire set in worlds that were built by the powerful for the powerful. Near enough to feel familiar. Wrong enough to make you uncomfortable. The people running things always have a reason. It's never the real one.
Dystopian fiction
Horror
Dark satire
Science fiction
LATEST NOVEL
THE FINAL ORCHARD
An underground colony. A corporation. A mother who will do anything. A teenage girl who doesn't know what she is.
SEQUEL TO THE FINAL ORCHARD - COMING SOON
THE DAWNING DESERT
The story continues. Ever's world has shifted — and the Surface is nothing like she was promised. The second book in the duology.
Book 2 · Coming soon
THE DAWNING DESERT
CJ RIVERA
ALSO COMING
HAPPY ISLAND
An island paradise of the coast of Punta Cana lures in the global elite with the promise of transformation, escape from consequences, and even rarer, citizenship by investment.
The staff watch. The kitchen prepares. And the true inhabitants of the island, ancient creatures of Dominican myth, select who stays.
Coming Soon
HAPPY ISLAND
where luxury devours
CJ RIVERA