Larissa Payton writes psychological spy thrillers that explore the boundaries between science and self. Her debut novel, Natural Causes Emergence, follows Tré Landin a chemist turned covert operative through a world where memory can be rewritten and loyalty is measured in code. She explores the tension between identity and obedience in a world where memory is programmable, and freedom is a system glitch. She believes the most dangerous experiments aren’t done in laboratories, but in the human mind.
Payton lives in the United States and is currently writing Lattice Protocol The Betrayal, the next book in the Natural Causes saga.
Larissa Payton writes at the intersection of intelligence, identity, and consequence.
A lifelong student of systems scientific, psychological, and human she is drawn to the spaces where order fractures and something more honest emerges. Her work explores memory as a weapon, reflection as truth, and the quiet cost of efficiency when humanity becomes optional.
Her debut novel, Natural Causes: Emergence, launches a multi book techno espionage saga that blends covert operations, neuroscience, and philosophical tension into a world where mirrors do not always agree and neither do the people trapped inside them. The series follows Tré Landin, a chemist turned operative, as he becomes entangled in a system that does not merely control agents, but reshapes mind, will, emotion, and identity itself.
Larissa Payton writes psychological spy thrillers that explore the boundaries between science and self. Her debut novel, Natural Causes: Emergence, follows Tré Landin a chemist turned covert operative through a world where memory can be rewritten and loyalty is measured in code. She explores the tension between identity and obedience in a world where memory is programmable, and freedom is a system glitch. She believes the most dangerous experiments aren’t done in laboratories, but in the human mind.
Payton lives in the United States and is currently writing Lattice Protocol The Betrayal, the next book in the Natural Causes saga.
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