Project Changeling: A Serena Keilor Novel

by Michael J. McCann

In the Martian domed city of Elysium, Serena Keilor is a young social outcast, discriminated against because of her red hair, her smallness, and her mottled complexion. Unknown to those who revile her as a worthless dirt eater, however, she's a highly effective undercover operative for Martian Intelligence who's just been handed her most difficult assignment yet.



Someone is selling Martian corporate secrets to Earth Intelligence at a time when the cold war between Mars and the motherworld is reaching a crisis point. The race is on to build an interstellar spacecraft and find the source of mysterious alien transmissions that could bring fabulous technological advancements to the winner, and the fate of Mars as an independent world hangs in the balance.



Serena's job is to confirm the identity of the spy and his Earth handler before they betray Martian secrets and destroy everything that the five corporations controlling the red planet have worked for generations to build.



Aided only by an artificial human who is a discarded prototype from the interstellar project, Serena risks her life to discover the identity of the spy while also uncovering an astonishing secret about herself and her unexpected role in the future of Mars!

382 pages, Paperback

Published July 7, 2021

About the author

Michael J. McCann is the author of SORROW LAKE, a March and Walker Crime Novel set in Canada. This novel was a finalist for the 2015 international Hammett Prize for best literary work in a crime novel by a Canadian or US author. He has subsequently published four more books in this series: BURN COUNTRY, PERSISTENT GUILT, NO SADNESS OF FAREWELL, and A DEATH IN WINTER (October 2020).

THE LONG ROAD INTO DARKNESS is the first book in a new series by Michael J. McCann also set in Canada and featuring retired police detective Tom Faust.

He has also written four novels in the Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel series set in the U.S., including BLOOD PASSAGE, MARCIE'S MURDER, THE FREGOLI DELUSION, and THE RAINY DAY KILLER.

In addition, he has published a supernatural thriller entitled THE GHOST MAN.

He has also published a subsequent supernatural thriller, TWILIGHT ROAD: A MADDIE HUBBARD NOVEL OF SUPERNATURAL SUSPENSE, and a science fiction thriller, PROJECT CHANGELING: A SERENA KEILOR NOVEL.

His books are available in e-book and paperback format at https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=Michael+J+M....