redemption book ideas

The Stars We Lease

A repossession pilot learns the starship she must seize is carrying the only school in a refugee fleet.

The Minotaur's Exit Interview

A labyrinth keeper helps the minotaur resign after three thousand years. The monster's replacement is a polite human consultant who is much harder to escape.

A Crown for the Unchosen

A throne chooses the least powerful person in the kingdom each year. This time it selects the palace cleaner, who hires the exiled prince as her secretary.

The Heir Refuses the Water

An inheritance lawyer helps a billionaire heir refuse a company whose assets include a whole town's drinking water. His family hires her replacement before she agrees.

The Referee's Second Half

A retired football referee and the sports journalist who exposed her worst call coach a community team that refuses to keep score.

I Was Paid to Betray You

An auditor is paid to destroy a hotel heir's reputation, then discovers her employer has edited the evidence. She offers him the truth before asking him to trust the attraction neither can afford.

Tomorrow Has a Cover Charge

A nightclub doorman discovers the government is admitting citizens to tomorrow according to what they can pay. He starts letting people through the kitchen.

The Price of Your Silence

Two anonymous whistleblowers fall in love through a secure mailbox while publicly defending opposite sides of the same scandal.

The Oracle Needs a Second Opinion

An oracle discovers her prophecies are symptoms of a god's anxiety. A skeptical village doctor offers treatment, but the temples prefer a profitable apocalypse.

His Mercy Is a False Identity

A witness-protection specialist learns the man hiding her has given away his own safe identity to save her. Loving him means exposing the crime that made his mercy necessary.