The First Chapter of a New Story
Welcome to the official home of T.G. Reed Books. Step into the world of A Dance on a Knife’s Edge and join Detective Celia Vance as she uncovers a mystery buried beneath corruption, murder, and secrets humanity was never meant to find. Set in a future where synthetic intelligences manage nearly every aspect of daily life, surveillance is constant, and even murder has become almost impossible.
Celia's Story Begins
A Debut for the Ages
Welcome to the world of Detective Celia Vance.
In the year 2301, violence is almost unheard of. Cities are watched by intelligent surveillance systems, while synthetic intelligences - descendants of the primitive AIs first created in the early twenty-first century - assist with nearly every aspect of daily life. The Quantum Web has connected humanity more completely than ever before.
Most crime has become digital in nature: blackmail, financial fraud, identity manipulation, and data theft. Murders? Those belong in history books.
Celia Vance works Major Crimes for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Practical, relentless, and deeply human in an age increasingly shaped by machines, Celia is suddenly pulled into a case that should not exist: the murder of brilliant Kinetic Industrials scientist Dr. Elara Voss.
What begins as a single impossible homicide quickly spirals into something far larger - corporate secrets, corrupted surveillance, covert operatives, and discoveries buried far beyond Earth itself. As the investigation deepens, Celia finds herself confronting a terrifying possibility: some mysteries are dangerous not because they are unsolved, but because they were never meant to be uncovered at all.
Featured Release
A Dance on a Knife’s Edge
In the year 2301, murder is almost impossible to get away with. So when researcher Dr. Elara Voss is found dead in a Jacksonville park, Detective Celia Vance is handed the city’s first true homicide in over a decade.
What begins as a homicide investigation soon uncovers hidden research, impossible technology, and a secret so dangerous that powerful people will do anything to keep it buried.
But the truth is far worse than anyone imagines. Because Elara Voss wasn’t murdered for what she knew. She was murdered to ensure the truth died with her.
And if Celia can’t uncover the answer in time, humanity may not survive it.
A Dance on a Knife’s Edge is a fast-paced science fiction mystery that blends classic detective fiction, corporate conspiracy, and near-future technology into a gripping thriller where every answer uncovers a larger secret… until the final truth changes everything.
The World of 2301
By the year 2301, humanity lives beneath a web of constant connection.
The old nations of North America no longer exist as independent powers. In their place stands the Pan-American Confederation — the PAC — a massive political and economic union formed decades ago during the last world war that unified the former United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and much of the Caribbean beneath a single federal structure. Citizens move freely between member states. Laws, infrastructure, and commerce operate through centralized continental systems powerful enough to manage millions of lives in real time.
Most people rarely think about it anymore.
Synthetic intelligences descended from the primitive artificial intelligences of the early twenty-first century quietly manage much of civilization’s daily function. The Quantum Web allows information to exist everywhere at once through distributed quantum-state processing. Autonomous traffic systems coordinate skies crowded with impeller-driven vehicles traveling through hypersonic corridors stretching across the continent. Orbital stations hang above Earth tethered by nano-fiber elevator lines. Humanity has become deeply dependent on systems few fully understand.
And because of that, violent crime has nearly vanished.
Most modern crime is digital in nature — financial manipulation, identity fraud, blackmail, corporate espionage, data theft. Surveillance systems blanket nearly every major city. Oversight grids track movement, transactions, communications, and public spaces so thoroughly that murder has become extraordinarily rare.
Which is precisely why Detective Celia Vance’s case terrifies people.
When corporate researcher Dr. Elara Voss is found murdered in a Jacksonville park, the investigation quickly uncovers corrupted surveillance records, hidden research projects, air-gapped assassins, and powerful interests determined to keep certain discoveries buried.
At the center of it all lies a secret tied to Mars, an ancient alien structure, and a forgotten catastrophe millions of years old.
Because some discoveries were never meant to be uncovered.
The Journey
Built From a Lifelong Love of Stories
About the Author
T.G. Reed was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and grew up during what was objectively the greatest decade ever created: the 1980s. Raised on a steady diet of Star Wars, Star Trek (more Trek than Wars, if we’re being honest), and Space: 1999, he developed an early love for science fiction, adventure, and stories that made the universe feel bigger than it really was.
He also survived the era of Miami Vice and Magnum P.I. There may or may not still be photographic evidence floating around of him wearing a Don Johnson-style white linen suit with a pastel T-shirt underneath. No apologies will be made. He still binge-watches Magnum P.I. on a regular basis.
T.G. is married to his best friend, Faye, and together they raised three sons, all now grown and making their own way in the world.
Before turning seriously toward writing, T.G. spent years working as a software developer after earning a degree in Computer Science. He even owned his own software company for a time before deciding entrepreneurship involved entirely too many meetings and not nearly enough spaceships.
He’s also been known to run the occasional Dungeons & Dragons campaign, sharing worlds and adventures with friends whenever schedules cooperate. Favorite module: Tomb of Annihilation.
For nearly two decades he practically lived on Xbox. His gaming loyalties remain firmly planted with Halo and The Elder Scrolls. And yes, he firmly believes Oblivion was better than Skyrim. He understands this may cost him readers.
He never turns down a good bourbon or cigar, believes even the worst steak still beats the best burger, considers lemon pie a gift from God, and can survive on Dunkin’ Donuts alone for an alarming amount of time — preferably pink glaze, no sprinkles.
Thanks for stopping by, and feel free to reach out with questions, comments, or just to argue about Star Trek versus Star Wars.
Cheers,
T.G. Reed
Committed to bringing you stories that resonate.
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