Read / Ages
Age and grade guide.
Use these ranges as reader-fit guidance, not rigid rules. Strong younger readers and sensitive older readers may fit different paths.
| Reader lane | Recommended range | Best starting point | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stranger Truths | Ages 7–11 / Grades 2–6 | The Floating City Secret | Warm mystery-adventure, family travel, hidden history, and light fantasy. |
| Magic Lands | Ages 11–16 / Grades 6–10 | Journey Beyond the Beyond | Clean early-YA fantasy with living-world adventure, creature bonds, and deeper emotional growth across the trilogy. |
| After the Machines | Ages 14+ / YA-adult crossover | Awakening | Darker post-apocalyptic science fiction about memory, machines, identity, and personhood. |
| Almost California YA Editions | YA / crossover readers | Almost California | Emotionally raw 1980s coming-of-age with small-town secrets, trauma, first love, guilt, and escape. |
| Must Hate Horses | YA / crossover readers | Must Hate Horses | Contemporary YA about grief, found family, horses, humor, healing, and choosing to stay. |
| Kingdoms & the Elves / Ruin Mist Chronicles | Epic fantasy readers | Winds of Change | Large-scale epic fantasy with prophecy, political conflict, ancient powers, dragons, and layered worldbuilding. |
| Scott Evers Thrillers | Adult thriller readers | The Pieces of the Puzzle | Espionage, black-ops tradecraft, surveillance, machine-linked conspiracy, and family stakes. |
| Timeless Voices / literary historical works | Adult and crossover historical readers | The Lights of Paris | Historical and literary fiction with love, sacrifice, memory, letters, war, revolution, and ordinary courage. |