Universes · Tests · Wars · Warnings
Books by J.A. Raithe
First contact as an exam. A haunted station in deep space. Empires playing war on a living board. Sacred archives that remember you back. This is the spine that ties it all together.
Every series here comes at the same question from a different angle, what happens to people when something vast and indifferent forces them to change, and what they lose when they become more than they were meant to be. You can enter the universe from any doorway below.
Standalone novel
The Shepherd Descends
Humanity’s first message from the stars is not a greeting, it is an exam. One scientist becomes the conscience standing between our species and a five kilometer seed ship waiting in the dark.
Enter the Shepherd’s test
Standalone novel
Station 13
Four crew members. One protector. On Station 13, the cameras show intruders, the frequencies whisper warnings, and the only mind you cannot outrun is your own.
View the mission dossier
The Veiled Core Chronicles
The Fighting 57th
On Cetia 243, wars are played on a living board that bleeds and remembers. Far below, Major Sora Virelle and her unit discover they are the pieces the game miscounted.
Enter the Veiled Core
Companion codex
The Chronicles of Consumption
Beneath the Spira Imperialis lies a sacred archive that should not exist, testimonies from civilizations that tried to turn themselves into scripture and were rearranged by something that did not understand mercy.
Open the archive
The Sporefall Saga
Book One
After a two kilometer asteroid slams into the Pacific, the real disaster arrives in the rain, microscopic metallic spores that rewrite the people they touch into Heralds, Architects, and Reapers.
Read the impact brief
Standalone concept novel
The Entropy Seed
Humanity was not an accident, it was a controlled trial run by ancient Builders who designed us to fail. The moment we truly reach the stars, a hidden condition in the universe will decide whether we are allowed to exist at all.
Explore the experiment