About the book

Restoration Games is the story of Gary Denson, a charming, calculating opportunist who drifts from city to city across Canada, leaving damage behind him long after the smoke clears. He understands the restoration and insurance ecosystem well enough to exploit it—and he does. Fires, floods, and personal disasters become tools in a larger con built on deception, manipulation, and stolen trust. 

As Gary plays his game, others in the industry are playing their own. Insurance adjusters, contractors, brokers, tradespeople, and investigators all operate within systems that reward speed, volume, and silence. Some bend rules. Others cross lines. A few try to hold onto integrity in an environment that quietly punishes it.

What begins as calculated fraud escalates into something darker. The novel moves between cities, timelines, and perspectives, revealing how small ethical compromises accumulate into irreversible consequences. Fires are investigated. Money disappears. People vanish. And the truth, once buried, refuses to stay hidden.

Restoration Games is an insider’s look at how modern systems can be gamed, how trust is weaponized, and how easily responsibility gets lost when everyone is chasing a payout.