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33 books & collections · 26 research projects

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The Sovereign Union edition presentation
Ideas & Society · First edition in preparation

The Sovereign Union

Give your heart. Know what you’re promising.

A man can mean every word of a vow and still misunderstand the promise. Love, marriage and mutual protection meet in a candid guide to the choices that shape a shared life.

Read for A man’s perspective on commitment, autonomy and the practical consequences of legal choices.

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Aetherion edition presentation
Epic Fantasy · Book I in development

Aetherion

Creation remembers what empires forget.

Six Gates sustain a world shaped by divine Resonance. Its empires know five. A buried age is returning with a past their sacred orders may find more dangerous than any rival kingdom.

Read for Mythic scale, buried histories and civilizations whose explanations of the world do not agree.

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The Black Laurel edition presentation
Espionage · Series in development

The Black Laurel

His father’s secrets know his name.

Jonah Mercer is nineteen when a prince’s attempted abduction brings the Black Laurel into his life. It knew his missing father as Nightowl—and its promises have a way of surviving the people who make them.

Read for Family mysteries, hidden institutions and loyalties that outlive the people who formed them.

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Mythological adventure · Publication details pending

Enter the Labyrinth

The maze is learning to read them.

A family and their friends enter Daedalus’s immense Labyrinth on a holiday in Greece. Finding home means understanding an ancient physical intelligence that can change its corridors—and learn from the people inside them.

Read for Contemporary mythology, survival and mysteries that reward curiosity.

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Political fantasy · Dynastic fantasy

Memento

The crown is yours. The dead have other ideas.

The throne preserves the minds of dead rulers. Its new monarch inherits their wisdom, rival ambitions and unfinished business. The crown gives one person authority. The voices make that authority difficult to trust.

Read for A living monarch’s struggle with the minds and ambitions of the dead.

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Mythic fantasy · Publication details pending

Aristeia

The gods watch. The heroes bleed.

Demigods, heroic heirs and chosen mortals compete under divine sponsors, facing monsters, hunts and rival champions. Courage can win a contest. Earning a heroic name also means winning the favor of the powers watching it.

Read for Divine trials, heroic rivalry and the cost of ambition.

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Court mystery · Publication details pending

The Golden Hostage

Seven heirs. One murder. Six reasons to lie.

Seven kingdoms pledge seven heirs to a covenant. One is murdered. The six survivors need allies to expose the killer before the bargain claims them too—but every ally is someone they have reason to suspect.

Read for Court intrigue, competing loyalties and mysteries with consequences beyond the crime.

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Dark fantasy · Publication details pending

Legacy of Cain

The first murder still has heirs.

Cain’s Mark survives in hidden descendants, manifesting differently across generations. Its newest bearer inherits power and becomes a target for groups determined to control, exploit or eliminate it. What began with a murder is now a hunt.

Read for Supernatural inheritance, moral pressure and the struggle to break an inherited pattern.

New to the collection

New questions, imagined worlds and a companion perspective on sovereignty.

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Philosophy & Theology

The Crown and the Conscience

A ruler’s conscience is never a private matter.

Faith, duty and conviction can steady a ruler’s hand. Other people live with what that hand does. From Moses to Machiavelli, The Crown and the Conscience puts the moral authority behind political power under pressure.

Book and cover in development

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Epic Fantasy

The Shepherd and the Sword

How much mercy can a kingdom survive?

He believes a ruler’s duty is to preserve life. Defending his kingdom puts that belief to the test. Every act of mercy must answer to the people who depend on him for protection.

Book and cover in development

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Ideas & Society

The Sovereign Her

The promise is mutual. The choice is yours.

A woman brings a life of her own to a lifelong promise. Love, law and independence belong in the conversation before she decides what to give, what to expect and what to agree to.

Companion in concept development

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Institutional thriller

The Atlas Covenant

The world cannot afford to stop for its rulers.

Civilization runs on food, energy, finance and communications. Atlas guards those foundations under an obligation that can collide with the political order the Black Laurel protects. Keeping legitimate order intact and keeping people alive may demand different loyalties.

Story development

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Mythological fiction

Achilles’ Heel: The Novel

He wants to live forever. They want him to live.

Achilles wants an undying name. Patroclus and Thetis want the man alive. Across the war, Hector and Priam have loves of their own, as the promise of glory presses against everything a mortal life can hold.

Prose treatment under exploration

Stories taking shape.

Early fiction projects. Each page identifies the current direction and what remains in development.

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Legal fantasy

Ivory

Someone has to tell the immortals they’re wrong.

A mortal law student challenges a ruling from an immortal tribunal whose authority reaches across kings, nations and civilizations. One human argument presses against the power to judge everyone else—and the assumption of having the last word.

Concept in development

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Speculative fantasy

Babel

The world obeys words. The bloodlines guard them.

A language that commands creation survives in fragments held by different bloodlines. The limits of their knowledge keep power divided—until someone understands across those fragments and threatens the balance the families depend on.

Concept in development

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Archaeological mystery

Dominion

The empire vanished from history. Its reach did not.

An empire was deliberately erased from history. Archaeology uncovers its traces; surviving bloodlines and institutions reveal its continuing reach. Recovering the past could make restoration possible before anyone understands why that past was buried.

Concept in development

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Dynastic fantasy

Crownless

The assassin’s greatest enemy is their child’s inheritance.

An assassin destroys the supernatural Crowns that empower dynasties—then discovers their own child is heir to the greatest one. The next blow against inherited power could strike the person they most need to protect.

Concept in development

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Occult fantasy

House of Sol

They guard Solomon’s secrets. Some would rather command them.

Solomon’s dangerous writings, objects, contracts and entities rest with Houses divided over their duty. Some would keep the inheritance sealed. Others want knowledge or power from the very things they were entrusted to guard.

Concept in development

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Mythic fantasy

8th Seal

The boundary between worlds is someone’s life.

The hidden Eighth Seal is a person whose choice may preserve or undo the separation between mortal and divine. Anyone with a design for that boundary must reckon with a life that has its own will.

Concept in development

Beyond the first book.

Planned Black Laurel installments and working Labyrinth sequel titles. Follow each book back to its series.

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Espionage

Black Passport

Your name belongs to an older promise.

Inside the Black Laurel, a name can secure protection before its bearer understands the obligations it carries. Sovereign guarantees cross generations, bringing old promises into lives that have only just begun.

Series installment concept

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Espionage

Sanctuary

A safe place is someone else's promise.

The Black Laurel's protected places bind hosts and guests through guarantees of shelter. Behind every refuge are people with loyalties and obligations of their own. Trust needs someone willing to answer for it.

Series installment concept

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Espionage

The Index

What you never knew can still bind you.

The Laurel's memory reaches beyond any one lifetime. Protected families inherit ties they may understand only in fragments, while promises made long ago can still claim a place in the lives they are living now.

Series installment concept

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Espionage

The Alumni

The Laurel is a hard habit to lose.

The Laurel's training travels with the people who pass through it. Recruits, instructors and former trainees carry its habits and loyalties into different lives, each with a different understanding of what belonging means.

Series installment concept

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Espionage

The Century

Someone must answer for the promises of the dead.

The Black Laurel carries its guarantees across generations. Those expected to honor them may never have met the people who gave their word. The promise survives as a responsibility someone living must carry.

Series installment concept

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Mythological adventure

The House of Daedalus

The maze had a maker. The maker had a reason.

A family searches for home inside an invention that learns from them. Following the Labyrinth's workings into the history and engineering of Daedalus brings them closer to the mind that made their survival so difficult.

Exploratory trilogy proposal

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Mythological adventure

The Last Thread

Home is more than a way out.

A family's search for home reaches the deepest purpose of Daedalus's creation. The answers matter to people living inside the mystery, trying to understand the Labyrinth without losing their hold on one another.

Exploratory trilogy proposal

Myth, curiosity & a little challenge.

Word searches, coloring, legal puzzles and journals. Product concepts and available samples are identified on their pages.

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Puzzles & Activity Books

Greek Mythology Word Search for Kids

Find a word. Meet a legend.

Greek mythology has names worth looking for. Young readers follow the letters, spot hidden words and make discoveries of their own in a children's word-search collection built around the world of the legends.

Concept development

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Journals & Planners

Journals & Planners

Put the unfinished on paper.

For thoughts worth keeping and plans still taking shape. Journals & Planners makes room for personal writing and everyday organization, without asking you to have the whole day—or the whole idea—settled first.

Format exploration

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Puzzles & Activity Books

Kids’ Greek Mythology Coloring Books

The legends are old. The colors are yours.

A world of Greek mythology, ready for a young imagination. This children's coloring collection invites readers to choose the colors and make the pictures their own, giving the legends a different look on every page.

Illustrated activity concept

Classics, imagined anew.

Proposed illustrated editions of Sun Tzu and Marcus Aurelius. Edition details and translations are not yet announced.

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Illustrated Classics

The Art of War

Original work by Sun Tzu

The first move is to understand.

Read the situation before you commit yourself to it. Sun Tzu brings preparation, resources and judgment to the study of conflict, asking the reader to consider what a decision will set in motion.

Exploratory edition concept

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Illustrated Classics

Meditations

Original work by Marcus Aurelius

Even an emperor has to live with himself.

An emperor turns inward to examine the conduct of one man: himself. These private reflections on duty, change and self-discipline speak to the work of living well when events will not obey.

Exploratory edition concept

The Peretz Papers · 5 projects

Research & essays.

The Peretz Papers: essays, a policy manuscript and working research briefs. Texts will be published after final review and approval.

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The Peretz Papers · 21 concepts

Research concepts.

The developing questions behind The Peretz Papers. Explore each cover and its current project record.

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