From the alleys of Tehran to the backrooms of empire, The Mirror Empires traces the untold story of Iran’s 20th-century upheaval, not through the eyes of kings or coup-makers, but through the poets, students, merchants, and mothers caught beneath their boots. Spanning four decades of resistance and reckoning, this searing literary epic unfolds across the rise of Reza Shah, the CIA-backed coup of 1953, and the slow-brewing revolution that would reshape the world. Intimate and unflinching, it’s a novel about memory as battleground, power as illusion, and the quiet courage of those who refuse to be erased.

When Lieutenant Cooper McGrath loses his team in a mission gone wrong, a flicker of memory and a fleeting encounter in Hawaii set him on a path he never expected. From the jungles of Vietnam to the heart of the Kremlin, from the ashes of an explosion over New York to the mountains where love and regret quietly coexist, McGrath becomes a man shaped not only by war, but by the echoes of those he couldn’t save. Grains of Diplomacy is a haunting, multi-generational tale of betrayal, memory, and the quiet burden of those who move through history’s shadows, never entirely escaping its reach.

Haunted by loss and driven by intellect, Don McDowell, a gifted Yale mathematician, escapes heartbreak into the shadowed world of espionage. From the corridors of Washington power to the charged streets of Mexico City, and onward to the war-scarred alleys of Saigon, his journey entangles him with women as enigmatic as the missions he’s assigned, and secrets as dangerous as the truths he avoids. At the heart of it all lies Nuestra Academia, a coastal sanctuary turned crucible of betrayal, where love, deception, and geopolitics collide. Counter Dead is a taut, intimate novel of memory, identity, and the quiet moments that change the course of history.