A cyber-noir romantasy trilogy
In a near-future Singapore and Bangkok, grief can be edited, truth can be managed, and power wears the language of mercy. Genesis is a dark, addictive trilogy about memory, class, desire, and the cost of choosing what is real.
A premium story world of dangerous intimacy, polished control, and unedited love.
The hook
Genesis begins with a family secret and expands into a war over reality itself. What starts as an intimate house mystery becomes a citywide struggle over memory, grief, and who gets to decide which truths are too painful to keep. In this world, control no longer arrives as brute force. It arrives as care. As relief. As mercy. And that is what makes it terrifying.
Story overview
In a neon-lit near future shaped by old money, private power, and engineered mercy, May is pulled into the orbit of a powerful house whose influence reaches far beyond its walls. What begins as a dangerous entanglement with one family, and with the enigmatic Kit, becomes a fight against the hidden system that governs who gets safety, who gets sacrifice, and who gets erased.
As buried truths widen into a city-spanning conspiracy, May and Kit are forced onto opposite sides of inheritance, loyalty, and survival. Their attraction deepens even as the world around them hardens into open conflict. Across the trilogy, the story expands from the intimate violence of one house, to the elegant brutality of an entire city, to a final reckoning over whether love can survive the destruction of the world that made it possible.
The world
Polished, aspirational, and ruthlessly controlled. Luxury towers, quiet surveillance, invisible labor, and the social machinery that keeps everything smooth from above.
Warmer, louder, more improvisational, and more visibly alive. A city of rooftop markets, transit arteries, repair warrens, spiritual residue, and systems people still learn to bend.
Memory is not just technology here. It is governance, inheritance, grief management, class control, and the most intimate form of power imaginable.
Genesis is built as a lived world, not just an aesthetic one: clinics, safehouses, transit lines, service corridors, vanished records, synthetic continuations, and cities teaching people to confuse comfort with freedom.
The heart of it
At the center of Genesis is the relationship between May Tan and Kit — a guarded heiress and the man who grew up beside her but was never allowed to belong cleanly inside her world. Their connection is built on class fracture, unfinished history, mutual recognition, and the dangerous fact that neither of them can become unreal enough to make love easy. In a story about edited pain and managed reality, their relationship is the opposite: chosen, difficult, and fully felt.
Composed, intelligent, emotionally armored, and slowly forced out of every inherited script that once kept her safe.
Restrained, observant, dangerous in quiet ways, and no longer willing to remain useful only at the edges of someone else's life.
The trilogy
Book One
The house book
When May enters the world of a wealthy, secretive house, she expects danger in plain clothes. What she finds is worse: a refined system of influence, silence, and control that barely looks like violence at all. As she is drawn toward Kit and deeper into the house’s buried history, she realizes the family is tied to a larger machinery of protection and punishment. By the time she uncovers the truth, desire and danger are already tangled together, and escaping the house may mean exposing the system it was built to serve.
Book Two
The city book
The house was only the beginning. In the aftermath of her discoveries, May follows the trail into a city built on selective compassion: surveillance, debt, privilege, and control repackaged as mercy. As the stakes turn public, May and Kit are forced into a volatile alliance that grows more intimate even as they begin to want different futures. When the truth finally surfaces, it does not bring justice. It brings escalation, and a fracture that could destroy them both.
Book Three
The worldview book
With the city destabilized and the old order fighting to survive, May finds herself at the center of a reckoning she never meant to lead. Collapse alone is not enough; something else will rise in its place. Beside her, and sometimes against her, is Kit, the one person she cannot fully trust and cannot stop loving. In the final confrontation, politics and intimacy become one as May faces the deepest truth at the system’s center: cruelty survives because it can look dangerously like mercy.
What Genesis is really about
Genesis is built to deliver emotional addiction and philosophical pressure at the same time. It asks a question that should follow the reader after the page is over: if a beautiful lie made life easier to bear, would you still want the truth?
Coming soon
Genesis is a trilogy about dangerous love, living memory, and the brutal intimacy of staying awake inside a system built to soften everything that hurts. This is only the beginning.