What if...
As a reader, I've always been drawn to the unknown—those gaps in the historical record where documented fact falls silent and imagination gets to work. What happened to the artifacts that simply vanish from the chronicles? What were the real motives behind events we think we understand? Who were the people living on the margins, caught up in forces larger than themselves?
These are the questions that find their way into my dreams, and they're where I believe the best fiction lives. As an author, I enjoy exploring these missing pieces and asking "what if?" History is full of forgotten players—the messengers, the believers, the schemers who never made it into the textbooks. I like to find those threads and pull.
Some of my stories explore faith in dangerous times—the cost of believing when belief itself is forbidden. Others dig into political intrigue, espionage, and the schemes of powerful men whose plans didn't unfold the way history remembers. What ties them together is my love of research and my refusal to leave a mystery alone. I find the questions history left unanswered, and I write the story that might have been.
I hope you enjoy my books. If you do, I'd be grateful if you'd leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads—it makes a real difference for independent authors.
Books:
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The Timna Prophecy
When Smithsonian metallurgist Dr. Evan Theron discovers a 2,600-year-old inscription hidden in the museum's archives, it points to an impossible truth: something was carried out of Jerusalem before the Babylonians breached the walls—something sacred enough that a desert tribe has guarded its secret for generations. Now, guided by a Bedouin whose family has kept watch since the fall of the Temple, Evan must decide whether some mysteries are meant to stay buried. Because faith's greatest threat was never doubt. It was proof.
**COMING SOON
The Roanoke Conspiracy
In 1587, 117 colonists vanished. History blamed John White. But what if he was set up to fail—and left the proof buried for someone to find?
When high school history teacher Daniel White discovers hidden coordinates in a family watercolor, he begins following a trail his ancestor left four centuries ago. The clues lead through the British Museum, a medieval church in Kent, the archives of an Irish castle, and back to Roanoke itself—where something has been buried beneath an ancient oak since 1590. What Daniel unearths will expose a conspiracy reaching to Elizabeth I's spymaster, clear a dead man's name, and prove that John White never stopped fighting for the truth. A historical thriller about political sabotage, family redemption, and a prayer answered 400 years later.
The Shoemaker’s Gift: A Novella
Every night, Jakub cuts the leather. Every morning, the shoes are finished—perfectly crafted by hands not his own.
Artificial Intelligence for the Rest of Us
Written under a pen name, Artificial Intelligence for the Rest of Us is the plain-English, gently funny guide to understanding AI—written by someone who remembers when “going viral” meant you were sick and contageous.
Knight of the Grail Code
In an attempt to discover what has become hidden within the growing darkness of our society, Knight of the Grail Code examines the source of our natural, moral instincts and how following these transcendent morals can lead to physical, mental, and sociological health.
The Author
Rick Kasparek is a storyteller drawn to the unexplored corners of history—the what-ifs, the gaps in the record, the moments where legend and fact blur together. He's fascinated by the questions historians can't quite answer and the stories that wait in the shadows, just out of reach.
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