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DTM HARRIS

AUTHOR OF THE MOSSCROFT SAGA

Michigan-born. South Florida-based. Building the world of Juno — where the next war begins the moment the lights go out.

4.8 / 5 · Mosscroft on Amazon
Mosscroft: Shadows Not Forgotten book cover — a lone figure standing on a rocky peak above a mist-filled valley
Second Edition · Paperback & Kindle
File 01 // The Novel

Mosscroft

Shadows Not Forgotten

A judge. A vanished father. A war no one sees coming. Book One of the Mosscroft saga — now in its second edition.

In Mosscroft, one of the seven territories of Juno, Ronan serves as a Two Sider in the Chamber of Dissatisfaction — a judge trusted to rule with complete autonomy. The uneasy peace that followed the Dark War is the only world his son Magnus has ever known.

Then Ronan's father, a former council leader, vanishes without a trace. The search pulls Ronan into the path of the Group of Five — a hidden faction preparing to topple Juno's leadership by weaponizing electromagnetic pulses, killing power grids and military defenses in a single silent strike.

With Magnus at his side, Ronan sets out for Greisling through betrayals, shifting alliances, and secrets buried since the war. And when Army Protection Headquarters falls and the nation slides into chaos, every choice he makes will decide who survives.

A dystopian political thriller about the fragility of power, the cost of leadership — and how quickly peace becomes a memory.

Dystopian · Political Intrigue · Military Tactics · 320 pages
File 02 // The World

Three lands. One fragile peace.

The Dark War burned across Juno, Tessa, and Leighas before an uneasy truce settled over the lands. The old hatreds didn't die. They went underground.

Territory // 01

Juno

Seven territories living in hard-won peace, blind to the war forming beyond their borders. Mosscroft is one of them.

Territory // 02

Tessa

A former enemy nursing decades of grievance — and quietly preparing to act on it.

Territory // 03

Leighas

Tessa's ally in the coming strike. Together, they mean to end Juno's world order.

Territory // 04

Lands of the Dismissed

Where Juno sends its exiles. Now one of them is petitioning to come back — and the hearing changes everything.

Encountered en route // the mysterious Flatheads · six-foot Slimscafs of the desert · the blood-thirsty Mestestas of the Talon Mountains · the Forest Tars of Altor ·
File 03 // Persons of Interest

Three generations. One conspiracy.

Ronan

Two Sider · Mosscroft

A respected judge whose search for his missing father drags him into the conspiracy — and out of everything he trusted.

Magnus

Ronan's Son

Come of age at the worst possible moment, he joins his father's dangerous journey to Greisling.

Rupert

Former Council Leader · Missing

Ronan's father. His disappearance starts the search — and his double life may hold the key to the war.

Dagmar

Exile · Lands of the Dismissed

An outcast petitioning for re-admittance. The hearing over his return is the first crack in the peace.

File 04 // Reception
0.0 / 5
21 ratings on Amazon · Now in its Second Edition
"Everything you could ask from a science fiction story."
— Readers' Favorite · Paula García Lasa

Reviewers have praised the fast-moving, multi-viewpoint storytelling, the depth of its large cast, and world-building detailed enough to earn its own character index and glossary.

File 05 // The Author

The writer behind Juno.

Portrait of author DTM Harris
Donna Theresa Maria Harris
Writer · Painter · Michigan-born, South Florida-based

DTM Harris is a writer and painter whose love of words began in an elementary school classroom, when a teacher saw something in her poetry and told her to keep going. She did: through a career in commercial real estate, through decades of poems and manuscripts written for herself.

It was her daughter — her first and fiercest reader — who finally pushed her to publish. Mosscroft: Shadows Not Forgotten, her debut novel, is the opening of a planned saga. She lives in South Florida with her daughter and grandson.

Origin // Field Note

The world of Juno began at a lake house in Canada — a glass of grappa, a painting of dogs playing poker, and a writer who wanted to give every one of them a story. Earth couldn't hold them. So she built somewhere that could.

Final File // Acquisition

The lights go out on page one.

320 pages ISBN 979-8897950584 Dystopian political thriller Book One Second edition