Ideas & SocietyThe Sovereign Union
Give your heart. Know what you’re promising.
Marriage, independence and mutual protection—the questions a man should face before he promises someone his life.
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The author behind the House.
Original books. Shared questions.
One founding author, with worlds to explore.
Ori Refael Peretz
Founder, publisher & author
From the promises that shape a shared life to the powers that shape imagined worlds, Ori’s work returns to questions of choice, inheritance and obligation.
Nonfiction · Fantasy · Espionage
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The founding books.
8 titles & collectionsIdeas & Society
Epic FantasyAetherion
Creation remembers what empires forget.
Six cosmic Gates sustain the world. One lies beyond its empires’ histories—and a buried age is returning.
Book I in development
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EspionageThe Black Laurel
His father’s secrets know his name.
Jonah Mercer interrupts a royal abduction. The institution that knew his missing father as Nightowl takes notice.
Series in development
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Mythological adventureEnter the Labyrinth
The maze is learning to read them.
A Greek holiday traps a family inside Daedalus’s invention. Its corridors move. Its architecture can learn.
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Political fantasyMemento
The crown is yours. The dead have other ideas.
A new monarch inherits the wisdom of dead rulers—and their unfinished claims on the living kingdom.
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Mythic fantasyAristeia
The gods watch. The heroes bleed.
Demigods and chosen mortals chase a heroic name through monsters, hunts and rivals—and the dangerous business of divine favor.
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Court mysteryThe Golden Hostage
Seven heirs. One murder. Six reasons to lie.
Bound by a royal covenant, six surviving heirs must solve a murder before their kingdoms’ bargain claims them.
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Dark fantasyLegacy of Cain
The first murder still has heirs.
A new heir inherits Cain’s Mark—and enemies who see a bloodline to control, exploit or erase.
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Philosophy & TheologyThe Crown and the Conscience
A ruler’s conscience is never a private matter.
From Moses to Machiavelli, the right to command meets the lives that must bear its consequences.
Book and cover in development
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Epic FantasyThe Shepherd and the Sword
How much mercy can a kingdom survive?
A leader devoted to preserving life must defend a kingdom through choices that threaten everything he believes.
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Ideas & SocietyThe Sovereign Her
The promise is mutual. The choice is yours.
Before building a life around love, make room for the woman who has to live it.
Companion in concept development
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Institutional thrillerThe Atlas Covenant
The world cannot afford to stop for its rulers.
Atlas protects the systems civilization runs on. Its duty may put it at odds with the powers Laurel protects.
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Mythological fictionAchilles’ Heel: The Novel
He wants to live forever. They want him to live.
Achilles pursues a name death cannot touch, while Patroclus and Thetis hold him to the life glory could take.
Prose treatment under exploration
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Legal fantasyIvory
Someone has to tell the immortals they’re wrong.
A mortal law student contests a ruling of the tribunal above kings—and puts its own authority on trial.
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Speculative fantasyBabel
The world obeys words. The bloodlines guard them.
Families inherit fragments of creation’s language. One person can understand across the divisions that keep their power in balance.
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Archaeological mysteryDominion
The empire vanished from history. Its reach did not.
Archaeology uncovers an erased empire whose bloodlines and institutions endure—and whose return may be possible.
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Dynastic fantasyCrownless
The assassin’s greatest enemy is their child’s inheritance.
An assassin hunts the Crowns that empower dynasties. Their own child stands to inherit the greatest of them.
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Occult fantasyHouse of Sol
They guard Solomon’s secrets. Some would rather command them.
The Houses hold dangerous writings, contracts and entities. Keeping them sealed is only one answer to Solomon’s inheritance.
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Mythic fantasy8th Seal
The boundary between worlds is someone’s life.
The Eighth Seal is a person. Their choice could keep mortal and divine apart—or bring the boundary down.
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EspionageBlack Passport
Your name belongs to an older promise.
A family name grants the Laurel's protection—and binds its bearer to promises made generations earlier.
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EspionageSanctuary
A safe place is someone else's promise.
The Laurel offers protected places. Their safety rests on people willing to keep their word.
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EspionageThe Index
What you never knew can still bind you.
The Laurel remembers the promises behind protected families, including histories their living heirs may never have been told.
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EspionageThe Alumni
The Laurel is a hard habit to lose.
Training leaves habits. The Laurel leaves people carrying very different versions of the same institution.
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EspionageThe Century
Someone must answer for the promises of the dead.
The people who gave their word are gone. Another generation inherits the responsibility of keeping it.
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Mythological adventureThe House of Daedalus
The maze had a maker. The maker had a reason.
To find a way home, a family must understand the mind behind a world that thinks.
Exploratory trilogy proposal
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Mythological adventureThe Last Thread
Home is more than a way out.
A family reaches for the Labyrinth's deepest purpose, holding on to the hope of going home together.
Exploratory trilogy proposal
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Puzzles & Activity BooksGreek Mythology Word Search
The gods are hiding in the grid.
Search Olympus, the Labyrinth and Medusa's Gaze in three large-print sample puzzles that grow more demanding.
Playable sampler completed
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Puzzles & Activity BooksGreek Mythology Word Search for Kids
Find a word. Meet a legend.
Greek mythology becomes a hunt for hidden words, with a new discovery waiting in the letters.
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Puzzles & Activity BooksLegal Word Search & Trivia
Make a case for your vocabulary.
Hidden terms and legal trivia put your attention to work on the language of law.
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Journals & PlannersJournals & Planners
Put the unfinished on paper.
Keep a thought, work through a decision or give tomorrow's plans room to take shape.
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Puzzles & Activity BooksKids’ Greek Mythology Coloring Books
The legends are old. The colors are yours.
Give Greek mythology a child's choice of color, with pictures waiting for a personal touch.
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