Fiction by

J.P.
Simison

Stories about the moments that define us —
and the choices we can't take back.

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Gate 12 Through Time

Time Travel · Adventure

Gate 12 Through Time

The Gate Series · Book 1

A missed flight. A gate that shouldn't exist. And a journey through time that will cost the Kimball family everything they thought they knew. Fast, funny, and impossible to put down.

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The Museum of American Possibilities

Literary Fiction

The Museum of American Possibilities

Standalone

A novel about the stories we tell ourselves — and what happens when someone finally tells the truth. Quietly powerful and impossible to shake.

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The Estate: The Drake Network

Spy Thriller

The Estate: The Drake Network

The Estate Series · Book 1

Sebastian Drake inherited a private intelligence network forty years in the making — and someone is dismantling it with surgical precision. A sharp international thriller about inheritance, control, and the cost of being necessary.

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Series & Sequels

Epic Historical Fiction

The Turning
Wheel

The Wheel is the rhythm beneath history — the drift of every age toward reduction, toward a world where nothing costs anything because nothing is allowed to mean anything. Rome had it. The Reich had it. 2046 has perfected it. Against the Wheel there are only two things: the one who cannot be made into nothing, and the one who refuses to forget him. This is their story. It takes two thousand years to tell.

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Beneath the Arena

Ancient Rome

A gladiator dies in the Colosseum and comes back. A woman named Aelia notices. She stays. Seven years of vigil — the beginning of the longest story ever told.

02

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The Fracture

World War II

Henrik enters a gas chamber with 847 people whose names he is memorizing as he walks. Anna keeps the ledger in Stockholm. When the Reich finds the lever to control him, the only escape costs him the last thing he has left of her.

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2046

Post-War to the Near Future

A woman gets off a train three stops early for no reason she can name. She buys a notebook. The wheel has been turning since ancient Rome. The witness is never done.

Spy Thriller

The Estate
Series

Sebastian Drake inherited more than his father's estate. He inherited a private intelligence network forty years in the making — and someone is now dismantling it with surgical precision. Smart, precise international thrillers about inheritance, loyalty, and the cost of being necessary. The Drake Network is available now. Two sequels and a prequel trilogy are in the pipeline.

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The Orpheus Protocol

The Estate · Book Two

HERMES finds the eighth name — the woman his father loved before his mother, the origin of the Estate. She just moved eleven million euros. Drake drives to Brussels alone.

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The Vanguard

The Estate · Book Three

The financial signature matches his mother's. Twenty years after her death, she is still building surprises into the foundation. Sebastian Drake will return.

Coming Soon · Prequel Trilogy

The Principles

Books 1–3 · Prequel to The Estate

Before the Drake Network. An immortal operative, a woman who carries his wounds across centuries, and a Nuremberg tribunal that cannot find a category for what he is.

Time Travel · Comedy

The Gate
Series

Greg Kimball just wanted a normal family vacation. The Gate Series follows one spectacularly unprepared family through history — armed with duct tape, snacks, and the unshakable instinct to argue about logistics. Gate 12 is available now.

02

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Gate 13 Through Time

The Gate Series · Book Two

The binder is laminated now. Greg is prepared. He is not standing at the binder. The Kimballs are heading to Phoenix. They make it all the way to Gate 13.

Literary Sports Fiction

The First
Line Series

Four players. One line. Senior season. They made a pact on a frozen pond: if one of us makes it, we all go. Cole is making it. And they are going — not forward. Away. A series about what youth sports take, what they give, and the friendships that survive the machine — and the ones that don't.

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The First Line

Books 1–3

Rook plays through a torn labrum. Mack keeps a secret from Cole that will cost everything. Eli has a notebook full of numbers nobody wants to read. The machine keeps grinding.

Coming Soon · Sequel

The Show

Book Four

Mack unpacks in eleven minutes in a twin bed in Nebraska. Cole gets cookies from a billet mom who calls the borrowed room home before he's ready for the word. The pact was never really about hockey.

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Standalone Novels

Literary Fiction

The Last Pursang

Minnesota, 1973. Wade Cross has ridden Bultaco Pursangs for eleven years. The Yamaha YZ250 is coming. One championship season to prove that what he knows in his hands matters more than what they built in their factories.

Literary Fiction · Baseball

The Glove

Millhaven, Ohio. Jake Miller opens his grandfather's hardware store every morning for sixteen years. A novel about legacy and the quiet love letters fathers write to sons — the ones that take a lifetime to read.

Literary Mystery

What the Fire Remembers

1973: Ruth Calloway smells something wrong from her fire lookout on her very first morning. 2024: Her daughter finds everything exactly as Ruth would have left it — except one half-full glass of water. Ruth never left anything unfinished.

Literary Fiction

The Road Through Sereno

David is forty minutes from a meeting when the car needs gas. He takes an exit he didn't plan. Past a one-pump station in the Mojave sits a town that doesn't appear on maps. A novel about the exits we miss — and what happens when we finally take one.

Coming of Age

The Pelican Key

Anna Maria Island, Florida. Summer, 1999. Five friends. Twelve weeks that changed everything. A novel about the places that make us who we are — and the summers we spend the rest of our lives trying to get back to.

Literary Western

Blood on the Brazos

Eliza Cade refuses to be kept. Her father, a Texas Ranger who can't stop being one. A novel about loyalty, stubbornness, and the children who inherit their parents' wars.

Literary Western

The Long Reckoning

Milagro, New Mexico. 1870. Marta Calvo has spent five years building a ledger. She doesn't want them dead. She wants them to stand in the plaza and account for themselves. Out loud. In the open. The way debts are supposed to be settled.

Military Thriller

Tier One: Earned Not Given

Dam Neck, Virginia. Green Team selection. Rook Rios didn't hesitate because he missed something. He hesitated because he saw something — and his body answered before his mind caught up. The mission hasn't started yet. They're still deciding who goes on it.

The Author

J.P.
Simison

J.P. Simison is a fiction writer whose work spans time travel, spy thrillers, and the quiet moments that change everything. He writes the kind of books he'd want to find at an airport — the ones you don't put down until you land.

He lives in Wisconsin with his wife and two teenagers.

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