A Thriller · On Sale June 2026
Blind Eye
Mara Chen designed the algorithm. Now a seventy-one-year-old woman is dead because of it.
Rosa Elena Garza had a leaking roof, perfect paperwork, and thirty-eight years of paid premiums. She drowned in four inches of water in the room the claim would have fixed.
Mara can prove the system was rigged — if Harwick Insurance doesn’t seize her servers first. A second carrier in Texas just turned it on. Now it is spreading.
Six books. Six disasters. One algorithm.
It starts in Florida. Then it spreads to California, Missouri, Maui, and North Dakota. By the time it reaches Washington, there’s nowhere left to run.
For three decades Stuart Nixdorff has built things that didn’t exist before — founding four companies and launching breakthrough products in sensors, imaging, wearables, and AI autonomous systems. He serves as a board director at Myrias Optics and Wildlife Acoustics, co-founded Ada IQ, and founded Intervals.ai, a consultancy for deep-tech founders where AI is the operating system, not the buzzword.
The science in Blind Eye is real. The data, algorithms, and AI architectures are the technologies he has spent his career commercializing — which is why the books have the texture they do.
In 2024, three hurricanes hit his Gulf Coast home in 99 days. He lived through the eye of Hurricane Milton, a Category 3 storm — and through the slower, uglier storm that came after it: a two-year fight with insurance carriers whose opening offers ran as low as $23,266 and, claim by claim, closed at 33x that position. He won his own fight. He is still in the larger one. That experience became ClaimRestored, his AI-powered advocacy platform for policyholders — and sharpened a conviction already present in the fiction: the systems we depend on fail in ways the people running them do not want to see.
Blind Eye is about what happens when someone decides to look anyway.
He has completed eighteen Ironman triathlons — which drives his view that anything is possible — and divides his time between the Gulf Coast of Florida and New England.
The book makes a claim. Read it and tell me if it holds.
Advance copies of Blind Eye are for policyholders and survivors of disaster claims — the readers this book was written with in mind — and for thriller reviewers, booksellers, journalists, and anyone who’s spent time near a claim file, on any side of it. Read it, and tell me if it rings true.
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