Natural Causes: Emergence
L. 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 Natural Causes: Betrayal, the next book in the Natural Causes saga.
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Natural Causes: Emergence
Book One of the Natural Causes Trilogy
Revenge requires patience. Tré Landin has the precision of a chemist—and a list of people who will never see him coming.
Science gives him a way to settle old scores. But as his targets fall, his pursuit of vengeance draws him into a covert world where his abilities serve interests far beyond his own.
Here, memory can be rewritten, loyalty is measured in code, and obedience reaches deeper than any command. As Tré becomes entangled in the system, the distinction between using his talents and being used begins to blur.
He knows what he set out to do. What he can no longer trust is how much of his path he has chosen.
Natural Causes: Emergence opens the Natural Causes Trilogy with a psychological spy thriller about revenge, identity, and the terrifying possibility that even your own mind may no longer belong to you.
Natural Causes: Betrayal
In publication: Book Two of the Natural Causes Trilogy
When the man becomes the machine, the system begins to remember.
After escaping a covert black site, Tré Landin flees to Berlin. But intelligence operatives are closing in, and the Agency is determined to contain what it created. Inside him, evolving nanites carry the power of Project Lattice—and a threat he can no longer outrun.
Natural Causes: Sarajevo Protocol
Working Title: Book Three of the Natural Causes Trilogy
The secrets buried in the Lattice are surfacing—and Tré Landin can no longer trust what he thought he understood.
In Sarajevo, the struggle for control reaches beyond covert operations and into memory, identity, and the choices Tré believes are his own. As the Lattice’s influence deepens, he must confront what he has become—and how much of himself he can still call his own.
In a world where memory can be rewritten, how can he know which truths to trust?
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