Red Mercury Rising

A war-torn nation. A shattered mind. A search for truth that may not exist.

As America collapses into civil war, Stella-imprisoned, tortured, and haunted by a brother who may be a ghost or a memory-fights to survive the ruins. As America fractures into warring states, one woman's fight for sanity becomes a battle for the soul of a dying country.

In the not-so-distant future, America lies divided by ideology and blood as it hurtles towards the Second American Civil War. Haunted by her brother Billy, a serial killer, Stella fights her way through a collapsing world. In the fractured nation of Pacifica, Stella emerges from the ruins of a brutal experiment. Imprisoned, tortured, and haunted by a brother who may or may not be real, she flees into a world aflame with civil war.

Blending dystopian action, psychological depth, and literary soul, Red Mercury Rising is a genre-defying odyssey of identity, trauma, and an aria for a collapsing American civilization.

About the Author

Philip Wik's fiction grows out of a lifelong engagement with moral imagination.

Drawing on classic literature, philosophical inquiry, and speculative storytelling, his novels explore memory, identity, faith, doubt, and the human search for meaning. His fiction invites readers not merely to escape reality, but to reconsider it.