Susan Jurica

5 booksFantasyRomanceRomantic Fantasy

Susan Jurica is a storyteller fascinated by the intersection of hard science and the human heart. With a background in academic research and a lifelong passion for speculative fiction, she crafts narratives that explore the weight of our choices and the enduring power of love across dimensions. When she isn't mapping out complex temporal timelines or debating the ethics of time travel, Susan enjoys crafting, reading, and gaming. She lives in a quiet corner of the Pacific West, where the heat often feels like a gateway to another world. This is her second novel, working toward creating a lasting legacy.

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A Crown of Silver Ashes

Bound by deception, untamed by magic, they must burn down a kingdom to survive.

Fantasy
Romance

Seraphina Fell is a master thief, not a royal ornament. But when a heist in the immortal realm of Aethelgard goes catastrophically wrong, her life hinges on a lethal bargain. Crown Prince Kaelen Silverleaf needs a fake betrothed to navigate the venomous court and recover his family’s stolen heirloom before the solstitial coronation. If he fails, civil war will tear the elven kingdom apart. If Seraphina fails, her execution is guaranteed. To survive, the street-smart mortal and the frost-cold prince must play a treacherous game of political intrigue, hidden magic, and dangerous pretend passions. Yet as they hunt through glittering court ballrooms and shadow-drenched sanctuaries for the lost crown, the spark between them blazes into an uncontrollable flame. With corrupt lords plotting their doom and ancient blood magic awakening, the greatest threat isn't the treason brewing in the shadows—it's the heart-stopping passion that could consume them both. In a world built on silver lies, love is the deadliest gamble of all.

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The Continuum and the Portal Corridor

Book 4 of The Continuity Bureau

Science Fiction

Equilibrium was supposed to be forever. Three months after the Continuum reached balance, every archived timeline glows green on the dashboard. Perfectly stable. Perfectly safe. It's a lie. Field agents Arthur Vance and Clara Holloway walk into sectors that report no anomalies and watch the streets flicker — one moment pristine mirrored facades, the next utter ruin. Analog registries are rewriting themselves one polite name at a time, and the automated anchors are failing without ever triggering an alarm. Joined by a small, divided team, they must prove the silent divergence is real before the Bureau buries it. Is it natural decay from a hidden flaw at the system's foundation, or is someone intentionally overwriting the branches? As they dig deeper, they uncover two conspiracies using the same flaw for opposite ends: one to reclaim what was pruned, another to engineer a catastrophic snap that will justify pruning it all again. To save the Continuum, they must build an anchor that sways instead of locks — and decide if true protection sometimes means doing nothing at all.

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The Continuum Fractures

Book 3 of The Continuity Bureau

Science Fiction
Science Fiction

The continuum is collapsing. Across unmapped quantum dead zones, retro-causal shifts are erasing entire historical sectors from existence. Continuity Bureau field agents Arthur Vance and Clara Holloway are dispatched to repair damaged timeline anchors before total substrate collapse occurs. But as reality warps around them, they uncover a dangerous secret: previous attempts to stabilize time created thriving rogue pockets populated by millions of temporal survivors. Now, Director Priya Okonkwo-Reyes has ordered aggressive timeline pruning to enforce a standardized reality. Bound by duty but confronted with humanity's remnants, Vance and Holloway face an impossible choice—obey the Bureau to preserve core history, or defy orders to save isolated timeline branches from utter annihilation. Plagued by accelerating temporal nerve degradation and hunted by desperate rogue operatives, Vance must navigate a web of administrative corruption and temporal gravity anomalies. With time running out, the team must execute a dangerous strategy to establish a new universal reference grid before every reality vanishes forever. From Susan Jurica comes an electrifying hard sci-fi thriller that explores the cost of progress and the true price of survival.

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The Continuity Protocols: Temporal Fractures and the Bureau

Book 2 of The Continuity Bureau

Science & Technology
Fantasy Time Travel

The main timeline is shattering. Following the catastrophic dispersal of Dr. Alistair Finch across the continuum, the Continuity Bureau is facing total systemic collapse. Quantum computing networks are failing, causal loops are multiplying, and memory bleed is leaking across sectors. The institutions built to safeguard time are crumbling from within. Enter Arthur Vance and Clara Holloway—two unexpected operatives thrust into a nightmare of retro-causal sabotage and decay. As localized timeline drifts escalate into global paradoxes, they must navigate classified protocols like Chronos-glass field isolation and multi-point anchor stabilization to hold reality together. But repairing time requires unimaginable sacrifices. Bureaucratic infighting, unethical temporal experiments, and the physical toll of time manipulation threaten to destroy them before the main continuum dissolves completely. In this pulse-pounding, hard-science temporal thriller, Susan Jurica delivers a masterclass in quantum mechanics and institutional intrigue. When every decision reshapes history, who can you trust to protect the future?

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Alistair and Lyra

Book 1 of the Continuity Bureau

Fantasy
Science Fiction

How far would you go to undo your greatest mistake? Dr. Alistair Finch is a man haunted by variables. A brilliant physicist, he triggered the temporal anomaly that claimed the life of Lyra Belmonte, the only woman he ever loved. Now, after three years of obsessive research into 'Temporal Anchors,' Alistair has finally cracked the code to the Portal Corridor—a dimension between eras where time is a map waiting to be rewritten. His mission is simple: reach the moment they first met and stop the chain of events that leads to her death. But the past is not easily changed. From the jazz-infused streets of 1940s New York to the neon-drenched grit of the 1980s, Alistair is hunted by the Continuity Bureau and haunted by 'temporal sickness,' a decay of the mind that mirrors his own grief. As Lyra begins to notice the stranger appearing in the background of her life, Alistair faces a devastating truth revealed by the Weaver, a sentient manifestation of time itself. The technology he built to save her might be the very reason she is lost. To give Lyra a future, Alistair must decide if he is willing to erase his own existence. In a race against reality, he discovers that true love is the only constant that cannot be engineered.

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