THE VARIANT CONSPIRACY TRILOGY
Christine Hart
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GENRE: SciFi romance
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BLURBS:
Series
What if the men destroying our world were doing it on purpose? The Variant Conspiracy trilogy follows 19-year-old Irina Proffer as she connects the dots between her cryptic employer’s work and an international plot to transform Earth. All while she navigates love and grief, both for the first time.
As Irina comes of age within a subculture of human mutation, she and her friends hunt a group of corporate eco-saboteurs. They discover a singular ancient evil that wants nothing more than to wipe out all life and remake our planet. As Irina pieces together visions of the future, she must figure out a way to change an outcome that seems inevitable
Book 1: In Irina’s Cards
Irina Proffer leaves mundane small-town life behind when she experiences visions inspired by a strange deck of tarot cards. To get answers, she travels from her northern British Columbia home to the province’s coastal capital. She quickly discovers a world of fringe genetic science and supernatural mystery.
Working for Innoviro Industries, Irina is drawn in by a powerful first love and compelling, yet dangerous questions about the nature of the company’s business. Meeting other ‘variants’ brings Irina closer and closer to the dark truth about her origins. She finds herself at the heart of two overlapping love triangles as she scrambles to escape her employer’s grip.
Before she leaves the city, Irina realizes she has merely scratched the surface of a frightening conspiracy on a global scale.
Book 2: The Compendium
Irina and her renegade variant friends are scrambling to pick up the trail of their former employer, Ivan, and his globally catastrophic scheme. After strategically sharing their story with the media, the group heads south from Vancouver to Seattle hoping to recruit more experienced – and lethal – variants to their cause.
Their attention develops a laser focus on an engineered disaster mere days ahead of them. Ivan is using what staff and resources remain of Innoviro Industries to set off a violent earthquake in San Francisco. While they fight to stop the earthquake, Irina pushes the love of her life Jonah as far away as she can, trying to keep his unstable genetic degradation in check.
Irina’s friends think they’ve seen the worst that Innoviro could bring forth by the time they reach a secret facility in the Mojave Desert. As they near the property, the group uncovers a horror none of them had ever imagined.
Book 3: Terra Nova
The end of humanity and an unrecognizable future Earth are now days away. After their first glimpse of the Terra Nova virus, Irina and her variant friends know their former employer’s plans are almost at hand. Their failed attempt to publicize Ivan and Innoviro Industries’ horrific activities has left them utterly reliant on their own wits and weapons.
After surviving a catastrophic earthquake in San Francisco and destroying a secret viral testing facility, Irina’s crew has traveled by a variant portal to London. On the other side of the world, they begin tracking when and where Terra Nova will be unleashed on the world. They know stopping Terra Nova is only the beginning of unraveling Ivan’s plans to reinvent the planet, but if they can’t stop this virus, there will be no one left to save.
Excerpt from In Irina’s Cards:
We walked a bit farther in silence. I had assumed Jonah would find something, at least a mention of the drug, within the files at Innoviro. How could something either guarded or fresh out of the lab, be a trustworthy substance I should let them inject into my veins? Even if Ivan showed me charts and research findings, what insight could I gain from them?
Jonah and I rounded a corner. The path diverged around a ring of shrubs and a large arbutus tree. On the one side, the path jutted out to a viewpoint looking over to the Inner Harbour. On the other, a bench sat tucked into a semicircle of overgrown juniper bushes. The sun had nearly dropped behind the hills in Esquimalt, casting vivid yellow-orange light onto downtown. Bright pink clouds floated like cotton candy in the sky. If we kept going the Harbour would greet us in its gown of twinkling lights. My sunroom balcony had that view at every sunset. I turned towards the bench. I suddenly felt like I needed a break.
Jonah sat down next to me. He touched the side of my mouth and I jumped.
“Sorry; you had some ice cream …” he said sheepishly.
I wished I was the kind of girl who carried a mirror in my purse, but I knew better than to bother searching. I looked out at the ocean and the pink pieces of light floating on the water.
“You look tense.”
His arm slipped behind my back as I kept staring ahead. I turned to answer and found myself nose-to-nose with him.
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GUEST POST:
The Variant Conspiracy books take place in a world almost identical to ours. With one exception. Variants, or mutants, are a reality. And they exist within a sub-culture, blending with mainstream society or staying hidden as needed. When I created the setting and characters, I visualized our world, but pondered the possibility of amazing people among us, just beyond our common knowledge.
I’ve always loved the idea of hidden worlds and alternative communities. Cultures that function outside our well-travelled cities and towns are fascinating to me because their very existence shines a light on how hollow the trappings of contemporary suburban life can be.
When I imagine hidden worlds, I’m trying to create a space for readers to discover treasures. Like that moment at a vintage market or antique mall when you find something truly magical that hits right in the heart. I love the idea of writing a beautiful idea into a tapestry of an imagined world.
But I also love science fiction. I want to understand the biology of fantastic creatures. I need to explain the mechanics of any magic I create. Which is why I love genre-bending. To me, it’s delightful to take elements from science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, and romance, and blend them together for something unique.
When a new reader asks me about the world of my trilogy, I tell them to picture this one, but add hidden catacombs, corporate conspiracies, and human mutations (some extreme) that include abilities and appendages from our wildest dreams.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Christine Hart is a writer of speculative fiction for youth and adults. She also runs an online metalsmithing shop, Hart Fabrications.
Christine’s backlist includes YA, NA, and MG titles. Her first collection of adult fiction, Weird Stories of Strange Women, is coming in 2026.
When not writing, she creates wearable art from recycled metals, vintage glass, and unusual gemstones. She shares her eclectic home with her husband and two children.
Learn more about Christine and her work at hart-fabrications.com and christine-hart.ca.
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Thank you so much for featuring THE VARIANT CONSPIRACY today.
Thank you for hosting my trilogy!
Sounds like a good series.
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Looks amazing
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?
That’s a tough one! I have so many destinations I’d love to visit. I’d start by taking a silversmithing class in Bali. But I’d love to go back to Asia and Africa.
Did you like English in school?
I did, for the most part, but I also tried to avoid taking it at a post-secondary level. My score in BC’s Provincial English exam (the finals we took in the 90s) was two points short of qualifying for the right to forgo taking English at university. I retook the exam and was one point short. So I had to take first year English. And it was that teacher who convinced me to switch from pursing law to journalism. Which eventually turned into a communications career. With fiction on the side.
Has writing always been your dream job?
I went through a few dream jobs before I came to fiction. I wanted to be an astronaut as a child. By high school, I wanted to be a lawyer. It wasn’t until my mid-twenties when I decided to give fiction a try.
What was your biggest writing accomplishment?