What happens to humanity when there are no more endings and meaning starts to fade?

Lucian has spent seventeen years perfecting the art of going unnoticed, growing up beneath the watch of the Future Building, where the government dispenses immortality through a substance called the Essence. While most people appear to get on with living forever, he learns of the true costs: grief without closure, the loss of beauty without urgency, and most profoundly, love, which can’t be contained in a life without endings.

Paradise Found is not about the discovery of immortality but about what humanity chose to do with it. It combines close, lyrical writing with a dramatic exploration of memory, authorship, resistance, and what paradise really costs.

Cover illustration by Richard Kilroy.
Paperback, First edition. 240 pages.
Launching 17 November at LALA Books.

What happens to humanity when there are no more endings and meaning starts to fade?

Lucian has spent seventeen years perfecting the art of going unnoticed, growing up beneath the watch of the Future Building, where the government dispenses immortality through a substance called the Essence. While most people appear to get on with living forever, he learns of the true costs: grief without closure, the loss of beauty without urgency, and most profoundly, love, which can’t be contained in a life without endings.

Paradise Found is not about the discovery of immortality but about what humanity chose to do with it. It combines close, lyrical writing with a dramatic exploration of memory, authorship, resistance, and what paradise really costs.

Cover illustration by Richard Kilroy.
Paperback, First edition. 240 pages.
Launching 17 November at LALA Books.