🌍 Spotlight on The Variant Conspiracy Trilogy by Christine Hart | Sci-Fi Adventure with Dystopian Edge and Hopeful Light
"What if the men destroying our world were doing it on purpose?"
Welcome to my stop on the Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour for The Variant Conspiracy Trilogy by Christine Hart! This trilogy blends dystopian suspense, romantic intrigue, and a twist of mysticism to tell a timely and thought-provoking story about corporate corruption, environmental collapse, and the powerful people who might actually want the world to fall apart.
If you love stories with mutants, deep-time mysteries, and a touch of magic, this science fiction adventure will take you through darkness into light.
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Book blurbs for all three novels
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A guest post from the author on why this trilogy still matters in 2025
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Exclusive excerpt
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Giveaway details! 🎁
🌌 The Variant Conspiracy Trilogy by Christine Hart - Series Summary
In a world teetering on environmental collapse and corporate domination, The Variant Conspiracy Trilogy follows Irina-a young psychic reader-who uncovers a shadowy plot to engineer a new form of humanity. As she joins forces with others like her, known as "Variants," they expose a vast global conspiracy involving genetic experiments, government corruption, and a plan to reshape the world for a chosen few.
Spanning the deserts of the American West to the wilderness of northern Canada, Irina and her team must evade deadly pursuers, confront their mysterious origins, and fight for a future that may already be slipping away. Along the way, they discover love, build unlikely alliances, and ultimately challenge the fate laid out for them.
Blending dystopian sci-fi, romance, mysticism, and fast-paced adventure, The Variant Conspiracy Trilogy is a powerful exploration of what it means to be human in a world that's been broken-and what it takes to rebuild it.
📝 Book Details
In Irina's Cards
By Christine Hart
Series: The Variant Conspiracy #1
Published by Independent Author on March 28, 2025
Genres: Romance, Science Fiction
Formats: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 290
Buy on AmazonIrina 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.
The Compendium
By Christine Hart
Series: The Variant Conspiracy #2
Published by Independent Author on March 28, 2025
Genres: Romance, Science Fiction
Formats: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 302
Buy on AmazonIrina 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.
Terra Nova By Christine Hart
Series: The Variant Conspiracy #3
Published by Independent Author on March 28, 2025
Genres: Romance, Science Fiction
Formats: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 283
Buy on AmazonThe 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.
🚨 Transmission Intercepted: An Excerpt from In Irina's Cards
The Variant Conspiracy doesn't begin with a bang-it begins with a whisper in the dark and a hand dragging you into the unknown. Step into Irina's world, where psychic readings barely scratch the surface of what's to come, and danger is already closing in. If you thought your secrets were safe, think again…
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.
"I didn't see a second man behind me until it was too late. He covered my mouth with his hand and pulled me backward into the trees."
🛰️ Where to Find The Variant Conspiracy Trilogy
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🖋️ Guest Post by Christine Hart, The Variant Conspiracy Author
Convince us why you feel your book is a must-read.
The Variant Conspiracy trilogy is in its second edition now, almost ten years after it was first published. So, what makes it a must-read in 2025?
I think the question that inspired the books is more relevant today than it was then. What if the men destroying our world were doing it on purpose?
The idea seemed simple at first. Corporations that pollute must understand the harm they're doing. They just care more about money than they do about humanity. Whether they plan to live on the last comfortable island or a space station in orbit, they must also believe that the fallout won't apply to them. The dynamic made me angry, and I was disgusted by it.
But my writer mind kept creating alternate explanations. What if pollution was a means to an end? What if destructive fracking and virus-breeding were tools of their trade? And what if the fallout won't apply to them, because a ravaged environment will suit them perfectly.
When I originally wrote the books (between 2012 and 2016), dystopian fiction was popular. And I wanted to create something for a market I consumed as a reader and viewer. The story that evolved as I worked on the first book drew from those personal tastes as well as my experiences in the corporate world. I was genuinely optimistic about the geopolitical landscape, so the story was just for fun.
I love playing around with science fiction and fantasy fusion. So, the books have mutants and a little magic. Deep time and mysticism. All with a romance element that keeps the story light and fun.
Today, just about everything seems heavy and scary at every turn. These books tell a story that plunges characters into darkness, but comes out into a positive, bright light. I think that's something many readers need more than ever.
About Christine Hart
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. Weird Stories of Strange Women is her first collection of adult fiction.
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.
🚨 Giveaway Transmission Incoming from Variant HQ
Christine Hart is dispatching a $20 Amazon/BN digital credit to one lucky reader across the network. Enter the Rafflecopter portal before the signal closes!
🛰️ 👉 Enter Here
Reminder: Each stop on the tour offers a new entry opportunity!
🛰️ Mission Log: Variant Transmission Tour
The signal has scattered across the network. Follow the coordinates below to access mission briefings, encrypted files, and field notes from trusted operatives (aka book bloggers!):
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🗓️ June 4 - 📡 Sandra's Book Club initiated contact
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🗓️ June 11 - 👾 Sybrina's Book Blog intercepted the first file
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🗓️ June 11 - 📖 Long and Short Reviews analyzed the intel
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🗓️ June 18 - 🔍 The Avid Reader tracked the trajectory
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🗓️ June 25 - 🌍 Guatemala Paula Loves to Read established ground link
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🗓️ July 9 - 🌌 Maggie Blackbird accessed deep-time archives
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🗓️ July 16 - ☕ Books+Coffee=Happiness decoded emotional data
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🗓️ July 16 - 💘 Romance Novel Giveaways confirmed Variant signatures
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🗓️ July 23 - ✨ Gina Rae Mitchell uploaded alliance report
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🗓️ July 30 - 🔑 The Key of Love broke final encryption
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🗓️ July 30 - 📚 A Wonderful World of Words relayed closing transmission
📡 Stay tuned. The Variant Conspiracy is live.
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🧬 Each one features bold women, bigger stakes, and just enough heat to keep things interesting.
💫 Final Transmission
Huge thanks to Christine Hart and Goddess Fish Promotions for the opportunity to spotlight The Variant Conspiracy Trilogy. It's been a thrill to explore this bold blend of dystopian suspense, mysticism, and romance-and to connect with readers across the blogosphere.
Whether you're here to unravel a conspiracy, fall for a mutant with a mission, or just escape into something spectacular-thank you for joining the journey. 🌌
🛰️ Until next time, keep your signals strong and your stories strange.
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Oh, I hadn't heard of this series before but it certainly sounds interesting. I will have to check them out. Thanks for bringing them to my attention.
This post is incredible, and these books sound epic
Fantastic sets of books
This looks like an awesome read. Thanks for sharing.
Sounds like an interesting series.
The book sounds very intriguing. Great cover, too!
Question for author-What's the strangest or most interesting thing you had to research for this book?
Although I'd describe this series as 'soft' science fiction, I did do a bit of research before crafting the backstory of Jonah's variation. (His was unstable because he experimented on himself, rather than being born with an ability.)
Sounds like a good read.
Sounds like a good book.
Thank you for hosting my trilogy today! Much appreciated! 😄🙏
You are most welcome. I had the best time designing the post! I wanted to make it unique from other tour stops. 😊
Sounds great.
Thank you so much for featuring THE VARIANT CONSPIRACY TRILOGY today.
What is a specific scene or aspect of your book that you're particularly proud of, and what made it so challenging or rewarding to write?