The series
Nine books. One mechanism.
The body builds itself once, from signals modern life now forges.
The Domain books
One signal, one window: what happens when an input the body builds from is forged or lost.
- The Window That Only Opens Once: A century of industrial chemistry reached you before birth. The prenatal window, when a body is built once. Industrial chemicals read as the body's own hormones.
- The Window That Won't Open: Every morning the Pill tells your body it is already pregnant. The fertile years, when the monthly cycle is held on one note. A prescribed hormone signal the body reads as pregnancy.
- The Window You Can't Look Away From: The real thing loses to a caricature of itself. The adolescent reward system, still being built. The supernormal stimulus: a brighter fake of the real thing.
- The Window That Went Missing: The immune system was starved of a truth it needed. Early life, when the immune system learns what to tolerate. A missing signal: the microbes the body expected.
- The Window That Won't Turn Off: The oldest question any creature answers: what time is it? The developing clock. Artificial light at night.
- The Window That Won't Let Go: Your body defends a weight it never chose. Before birth and early life, when the defended weight is set. The food and chemicals that set the body's thermostat.
The Lens books
The same thesis through a new lens: the grandchildren who inherit a mark, and the money that prices in the harm.
- The Window That Never Closes: You already wrote a second will, without a pen. A window into the future: the generations after. A mark on how a gene is read, passed down.
- The Window in the Boardroom: A poisoned generation is the system working, not failing. A window into the money. The incentive that keeps harm in production.
The Capstone
The thread under the other eight. Best read last.
- The Window Was Fake the Whole Time: One claim added to the eight books before it: they rhyme. Every window in the series, read together. The counterfeit: the one mechanism under all of it.