The Ground Truth Series, Book 1
The Coastal Correction
Technothriller
A shape crossed the eastern Atlantic between 2006 and 2008. Four years later, it was explained away.
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Gene Roth Books
Fiction built on things that actually happened
Seven novels about measurement, evidence, and the moment a record stops matching the world it describes. Each one starts from a real anomaly, a real place, or a real piece of science, then asks what it would cost the people standing closest to it.
Seven published novelsLatest: The Coastal Correction, August 19, 2026
The Ground Truth SeriesBook one available now, 4 planned
All novels
Thrillers, speculative fiction and one literary romance. Every title in print, newest first.
Hold Pressure
Survival thriller
Nineteen sailed from Ambergris Caye. Fourteen went into the water.
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Witness Mark
Hard science-fiction thriller
A failed lander recorded forty-one minutes of the Moon ringing. Buried in the record is a single tone that should not be there.
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The Audubon Protocol
Science-fiction horror and conspiracy thriller
Something beneath Atlanta remembers what happened there.
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The Fifth Pit
Science thriller
Some silence outlasts everything.
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A Record of the Evening
Literary M/M romantic suspense
At seventy-four, Julian Essex can arrange anything for anyone—except his own life.
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The 24-Hour Ping
Hard science-fiction thriller
Ten words. One fatal mistake. The light doesn’t come back.
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Series
The Ground Truth Series
The Coastal Correction is the first of four Ground Truth novels, each beginning with a different real scientific anomaly and reaching its own conclusion.
The author
Gene Roth
I write thrillers from Atlanta, Georgia, about measurement, evidence, custody of records, and the moment a description of the world stops matching the world. Before this, and still alongside it, I spent fifteen years inside federal regulatory systems.
It is not really a separate interest. Both start with a record, a measurement, and the point at which the two stop agreeing.