A short introduction.
Welcome to the novels of Steven Noseworthy. My books explore history, politics, technology, faith, and the choices that shape our world. Whether uncovering ancient mysteries or imagining tomorrow's challenges, each story begins with a simple question: What if?
Steven Noseworthy draws on a 35-year career in Canadian banking, a lifelong love of history and classic literature, personal experiences, curiosity about emerging technologies, and an active imagination to create thought-provoking thrillers and stories that explore power, faith, justice, innovation, and the human condition.
Steven Noseworthy is a Canadian author of political and historical thrillers. His novels combine real-world knowledge, historical research, and imaginative "what if?" scenarios to explore power, faith, technology, and justice.
What if King Arthur and Merlin were real—but history remembered them by different names?
For nearly two thousand years, an ancient hawthorn has bloomed in winter, its flowering branches carrying a tradition that reaches all the way to the British Crown.
Then, for the first time, the Tree of Thorns fails to bloom.
And an ancient warning leaves King Charles III with a single instruction: The Crown must go west.
The Royal Search Party is reunited and sent to Glastonbury, where a mystery buried beneath centuries of history begins to unravel.
It begins two thousand years ago —in Jerusalem—with Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.
Their extraordinary journey carries them across the Roman world to ancient Britannia, where faith, history and legend collide. There, the foundations are laid for a story future generations will remember very differently.
Camelot. Arthur. Merlin. The Round Table.
What if the legends survived... but the names did not?
As the past reaches into the present, an ancient mystery becomes something far more dangerous: a challenge to kings, governments and religious leaders—and to anyone entrusted with power.
And after reading Tree of Thorns… you may never hear the words “For God so loved the world…” quite the same way again.
Genre: Historical Conspiracy Thriller • Ancient Mystery • Arthurian Legend
What if doctors and nurses could spend their time caring for people instead of fighting paperwork? What if AI helped them do it? What if getting sick never meant having to prove you could afford to get well?
But rebuilding healthcare means confronting an uncomfortable truth: millions of jobs, businesses and institutions depend on the system that already exists.
What if you could build something better—without leaving anyone behind?
The Healers’ War is a thoughtful fictional exploration of healthcare, artificial intelligence, economics and the human cost of change.
Genre: Political Thriller
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What if loyalty worked both ways?
What if loyalty wasn't something we simply owed to governments, employers, institutions and leaders?
What if they owed it to us, too?
When President Victoria Kane discovers evidence of hidden networks operating inside government, corporations and institutions, General Titus is asked to investigate. But the deeper he looks, the more complicated the idea of a “Deep State” becomes.
Perhaps it isn't one secret organization at all.
Perhaps it begins whenever loyalty to an institution becomes more important than loyalty to the people it was created to serve.
Obedience explores power, truth and the difference between loyalty freely given—and obedience quietly demanded.
Genre: Political Thriller
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What if the idea was yours - but someone else owned it?
What happens when something created in your own mind no longer belongs to you?
Three employees believe they have created something extraordinary. Three corporations point to the contracts they signed and say otherwise.
For attorney Daphne Karagiannis, the dispute becomes personal. She helped write the very clauses now being used to claim their ideas.
But what begins as a question about intellectual property soon becomes something much larger:
Can a corporation own an idea simply because of where—or while—you happened to create it?
The Billionaire's Clause explores innovation, ownership and the uneasy line between protecting a company's investment and protecting the human being who had the idea.
Genre: Political Thriller
What if AI simply gave us exactly what we asked for?
What happens when we teach artificial intelligence to make a bank more profitable—but forget to tell it when enough is enough?
Two artificial intelligences are given very different ideas of success. One measures profit and efficiency. The other considers fairness, transparency and whether the people it serves can prosper too.
Both are doing what humans taught them to do.
As General Titus and Bill Sparrow follow the money, they confront a question that reaches far beyond banking:
If artificial intelligence learns its values from us, what values are we teaching it?
Populous Reaction explores banking, AI, greed and an old question made newly urgent: who is the economy supposed to serve?
Genre: Political Thriller
What if one of humanity’s oldest arguments began with a misunderstanding?
For centuries, homosexuality has been condemned as sin, defended as doctrine, and used to judge millions of lives.
But what if the ancient texts meant something different?
When archaeologist James Radcliffe uncovers a forgotten letter connected to the translation of the King James Bible, he and his husband Sean are drawn into a mystery stretching from King James I and Queen Victoria to hidden manuscripts, secret societies and a battle over who gets to interpret the past.
The deeper they dig, the more provocative the question becomes:
What if science and faith were never enemies—and both had been pointing toward the same truth?
Homo Sapiens is a historical thriller about love, belief, prejudice and the dangerous consequences of allowing fear to speak for God.
Genre: Historical Thriller
What if the best way to defeat a superpower was not to defeat it at all?
When an escalating trade war threatens Canada’s sovereignty, a newly elected prime minister faces an impossible choice: retaliate against the world’s most powerful country—or find another way.
Canada chooses another way.
What begins as an economic struggle becomes something far larger. Canada sets out to reduce its dependence on the United States, rebuild its economy, confront its own unfinished history, and forge new relationships around the world.
But becoming stronger brings new dangers. Russia tests Canada’s resolve. China challenges its growing influence. Alliances strain, old assumptions collapse, and a country accustomed to living beside a superpower suddenly finds itself helping reshape the world.
Through it all, one question remains:
Can a nation stand its ground without becoming the very thing it is fighting?
How to Tame a Super Power is a fictional political thriller about sovereignty, reconciliation, courage and an audacious idea—that strength does not have to mean domination.
Genre: Political Thriller
The sequel to Tree of Thorns
The search for the Tree of Thorns was only the beginning.
Stephen Armitage thought discovering the truth hidden beneath centuries of legend would be the greatest adventure of his life.
He was wrong.
When an ancient discovery beneath Kaer Malot reveals a message never meant for his time alone, Stephen and George St Clair are drawn into a mystery far older—and far more dangerous—than anything they have faced before.
Across the world, something is changing.
Old powers are stirring. Ancient promises are awakening.
And somewhere between history and legend, two relics are stirring as well.
Except these relics aren't buried.
They're alive.
Humanity is approaching a choice that no nation, religion, institution—or individual—will be able to avoid.
Because the greatest relics of history were never meant simply to be found.
They were waiting for now.
Age of Relics continues the story begun in Tree of Thorns—a globe-spanning thriller of ancient mysteries, biblical intrigue, hidden history and one final question:
Whom will you serve?
And after reading Age of Relics… you may never think of the narrow way as a path meant for only a few again.
Perhaps it is narrow because there is only room to walk it one at a time.