Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

The Seven Wonders (2012) is a prequel recounting the journey of the young Gordianus to see the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World beginning in 92 BC. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin where he studied history and Classics. Henry is set in Austin in the 1880s and based on real-life serial murders and trials (the case of the so-called Servant Girl Annihilator).

Henry is set in Austin in the 1880s and based on real-life serial murders and trials (the case of the so-called Servant Girl Annihilator). Have You Seen Dawn? is a contemporary thriller set in a fictional Texas town Amethyst based on Saylor's hometown Goldthwaite Texas.