Author of grounded speculative fiction and psychological realism
Tell Me What the Sun Knows – Coming Soon
A quiet novel about survival, intimacy, and the uneasy alliances that shape us.

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Novel
After six months alone in the mountains, Celeste Hale emerges into a world she no longer recognizes. The town of Sanchez is abandoned, overgrown, and watched. When she crosses paths with Orrin, a cold and breathless figure with eyes like aged blood, she is offered protection at a price she doesn’t yet understand.Tell Me What the Sun Knows is a quiet, atmospheric novel about survival, power, and the fragile intimacy between the human and inhuman.Currently in development. Release details to be announced.
About The Author
I'm M.S. Harstine, writer of character-driven fiction that explores isolation, power, and uneasy alliances in a shattered world. My debut novel, Tell Me What the Sun Knows, is coming soon.

“It wasn’t trust. Not quite curiosity. Something stranger. Like she’d wandered too close to the dark and glimpsed a shape that mirrored her own.”
“Now, if she turned away, she’d never understand what this really was.”