TO MY LOVE AND THE END is a 93,000-word, deeply romantic, dystopian thriller about two people clinging to love during the final stages of foreign subversion.

In the early 1980s, we were warned that the Soviet Union was actively employing an effective weapon against us, and that weapon was called ‘subversion.’ This weapon takes decades and generations to be fully realized, and it uses free speech and the fabrication of truth to separate citizens from society and those that govern. When the Soviet Union fell, however, the weapon continued to inflict small cuts, and the cuts were well placed and unnoticed, and chaos grew as the cuts infected, and those that governed sought order over the chaos. Where order rises, liberty dies.

TO MY LOVE AND THE END follows Ethan Voss, one such agent of chaos, near the conclusion of subversion that has been fully realized. As his covert operations tear and sever that which binds ‘We The People,’ those that govern react to the unrest created from the shadows and they seek to restore the order, and the people rage and protest the oppression, and the protests threaten the order, and more order is employed, and the rage rises still, and freedom becomes memory, and the world becomes dark and quiet as horror fills the silence on the once vibrant city streets. Ethan considers himself a weapon, a thing to be wielded by those that sharpened him, until a forgotten love named Claire shakes the foundation upon which he stands and fills the void within him. In the end, he must decide how to save his love from the very dystopia he orchestrated.

The novel is very timely and intertwines real world constitutional/legal precedent that allows leaders to implement authoritarian responses to citizen unrest, some of which has been used by the current administration since the writing of this novel. The governmental figures described in the novel are fictional and the novel does not favor or demonize either side of the political aisle. It will appeal to those who enjoy dystopian fiction and fear authoritarian drift via government overreach. It has a similar flavor to novels such as 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 that shows the intimate human cost of government overcorrection and when order begins to outweigh liberty, even if the order is executed in response to innocent stimuli. It also resembles stories such as For Whom The Bell Tolls where the main character is somewhat of an antihero and where the reader is thrown into covert tradecraft and may even begin to relate to the antagonist. TO MY LOVE AND THE END is also deeply romantic and explores love between two people that existed before they were born to this life and will stay long after they leave it. 

The story blends lyrical prose with cinematic tension, inspired by the styles of Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway, William Styron, and George Orwell. It explores authoritarian drift, the weaponization of fear, and how even the most broken among us can still choose love over legacy.