Helen Hynson Vettori

When Helen Hynson Vettori is not writing a book, she’s reading one. Some of her favorite characters are Mitch Rapp, Jack Reacher, Claire and Jamie Fraser, and Alice (in Wonderland). If there is a movie or show associated with one of her favorite books or characters, she might be watching it. Aside from literature and film, she loves art. Viewing it or creating it herself, she can spend hours in her studio. However, perhaps the thing she loves to do most is to spend time with her family at home or while traveling.

My Black Swan Trilogy thriller novel series has plots that take readers to future monumental disasters or Black Swan Events. A Black Swan Event is a catastrophic incident that no one could have foreseen or imagined because of its unprecedented impact. The heroes in each story must struggle to overcome the harrowing threats facing them as individuals and as members of society.

The primary calamity that drives the first novel, Black Swan Impact, is a virulent and deadly pandemic although politics also challenge the main characters and worldwide populations. It won 2024 Mystery/Thriller from International Impact Book Awards and Kirkus Reviews said, "Vettori's technical knowledge has allowed her to craft a virus of terrifying verisimilitude, ... but the future setting provides a welcome level of distance and fantasy." —Kirkus Reviews

Next, Black Swan Shock features characters that readers met in the first book and a few new ones, but they are 30 years older when a massive earthquake strikes. All of them struggle yet find altruistic actions to become beacons of hope. This second series installment also won 2025 Mystery/Thriller from International Impact Book Awards and Kirkus Reviews said, "An intense, futuristic thriller that recalls the best of 1970s disaster cinema" and "...The author, an emergency-services professional, clearly has a taste for disaster fiction, and her take on the calamities erupting around her characters makes them feel real ..." —Kirkus Reviews

Black Swan Terror, will complete the trilogy. Currently, it is in its early draft stage, but, as you may have guessed, the Black Swan will be terrorism.