The Innocence Machines

Part 1: The Wall and the Veil

The first novel in the new trilogy is out on 17 July 2025

Paperback and Kindle available on Amazon.

The Innocence Machines part 1 The Wall and the Veil

Sophia, on the brink of adulthood, is meant to be a fine upstanding product of the County, the last refuge for life in the remnants of a world shattered by climate change. Protected from the devastation outside by the Wall, she and the other remaining humans live out their safe but pointless lives, in a system run entirely by the AIs. For some, this is the easy life. For others the alternative, the gift of Reinnocence, becomes irresistible.

But Sophia has just seen Danny go into the Innocence Machine and is in no mood to accept her fate. His choice screams to her that there is something about this world that is not quite right. She is badly in need of some answers.

Meanwhile, Aron, who is not even supposed to be here at all, is hiding from an unknown danger. Scared and alone, he is badly in need of a friend.