James Nugent

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I create stories about people you'll want to hug, in worlds you'll be terrified to live in, with twists that'll make you throw the book across the room and then immediately pick it back up.

The Telomere Chronicles is a literary science fiction trilogy that blends romance, thriller, mystery, and speculative biology into something I've never quite seen on a bookshelf before.

At its heart, it's an enemies-to-lovers story about a geneticist who cured human mortality and the soldier sent to find her, set against a world where paradise has been achieved and is already starting to crack.

I believe the best fiction makes you forget you're reading words on a page. The characters should feel like people you've actually met — flawed, complicated, capable
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