Her Gilded Voice is now available!
 
"A compelling and thought-provoking speculative novel."
-Kirkus Reviews

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Small Spec Book Awards Finalist (2025)

Teenage Lacey has a woman living inside her head...or is it the other way around?

Decades from now, technology has advanced, and everyone has a "neuro-net" wired into their brain. This provides each person with a "voyce" inside their head that offers advice that guides and ostensibly protects them; as teen Lacey Clarke puts it: "Voyces help us all make the right decisions. They give us reason, protect us from outside chaos. And in some cases, they protect us from ourselves."

In this republic, Lacey and her older sister, Yadira, barely make ends meet, and their lives are made worse when they discover they must pay off their late father's debt and that Lacey has been marked to beome a Puzzler in a brainteaser competition in which losers are killed. Alina, Lacey's voyce, reassures her everything will be fine if only they foloow the rules, but when an encounter with Ogden Oliver, a powerful Elite, ends with Alina being temporarily deactivated, lacey is left alone with her own thoughts. For the first time in her life, she is able to perceive the world as it acturally is--without augmented-reality illusions.

As Lacey navigates the competition, she realizes she may be a pawn but one that has hitherto unknown power.

About this book, Kirkus writes, "Lacey's coming-of-age feels very personal and individual, but the author never loses sight of the fact that the protagonist exists in the world of a wider story--one that examines and fully addresses themes of oppression, social stratification, dissent, and agency...A compelling and thought-provoking speculative novel."

​Book Trailers and Reviews for Her Gilded Voice

Here are a few concept covers we had early on.