Trials of Quentin Maurus Books in Order

Quentin Maurus struggles to hold together his family, relationships, and working life as distant conflicts begin reshaping his world. External threats encourage nations to turn against their own citizens, making ordinary survival increasingly difficult.

With wars spreading and his world approaching catastrophe, Quentin Maurus struggles to put his own life in order. Around him, people long for ordinary routines and dependable government while trying to preserve a future amid escalating violence.

In an alternate 1978, Quentin Maurus avoids military service because of his father's heroic status. Graduating into a society governed by women, the skeptical young man discovers that privilege offers little protection from contradictions, bad choices, and misfortune.

Quentin Maurus navigates factory work, a secretive older lover, and a marriage of convenience to a Persian refugee. Their private complications unfold on an Earth divided between opposing societies that have fought for more than a thousand years.