Heartless

Less than a year after the Expanse War, Port Ashraven is still pulling its dead from the rubble, and what remains of its institutions is struggling to hold the city together.

Carice Frost carried her daughter through the war. Now widowed, she works as an accountant while the two of them learn to live in peacetime. But when Iris is found dead, her body naked, Carice’s life collapses. The case stalls for lack of leads, her employer wants her back at her desk, and the city has already moved on.

When there is nowhere left to turn, a stranger finds her. He promises revenge. In return, he wants her accounting skills. His timing is too perfect and his reach too deep, but Carice accepts.

Her search for Iris’ killer leads into the rot beneath Port Ashraven’s institutions, and toward people who know how to make grief useful. The only question left is what Carice is willing to become for Iris.

Status: Editing.

Type: Novel.

Estimated Release: 2026

Remember the Ashmarked

Book I of the Port Ashraven Saga

Eight years after the Expanse War ended, Port Ashraven is a city still counting its dead. The Eastern Pact had arrived first, a foreign army that walked into the city without opposition and called themselves protectors. Alongside the local army, they fought against the Dravoskan Directorate, who came later and called themselves liberators. Officially, both are now gone.

Ray Cutter arrived in Port Ashraven two weeks ago under a borrowed name. He was taken young, made into a Directorate soldier, and spent years fighting against his own country. Now he seeks to atone for his past by serving the city, while the damage the war left behind moves through him. Penny Autumn has always wanted to be a detective. Her father’s money made it happen, and she has not thought past that. They are handed the cases nobody wants, the kind of dead that don’t make the papers. What they find will pull them into the machinery underneath Port Ashraven, and into the wreckage of their own histories.

Duncan Graves is a decorated war hero appointed to root out Directorate infiltration before it takes hold, a role was designed to look like the city was paying attention. But when his investigation leads him toward a rogue Pact nobleman running weapons, the city’s institutions close ranks against him.

Ravenu Ravlen is an Eastern Pact agent, a translator turned seductress by duty, her fiancé waiting at home the only thing she has not given to her King. Valeska Nebel is a Directorate operative, born in Port Ashraven, raised unwanted by it, now hunting Pact agents through its streets.

Five people bound to choices they cannot take back. Around them, Port Ashraven braces for another war.

Status: Drafting.

Type: Multi-POV saga.

Estimated Release: TBD

Legend (placeholder)

Six years after the Expanse War, the Videlian Secret Service sends Fiach Threeborn back to Port Ashraven, the city he once called home. Officially, he is investigating a series of deaths with possible political connections. Unofficially, Central believes the Service’s local branch has been compromised.

The night before his departure, Fiach’s wife tells him not to come back. She gives him no reason he can understand.

In Ashraven, he finds his handler, an old friend, dead inside a safehouse locked from within. A gun in his hand. A bullet in his head.

Alone in a city he no longer recognizes, Fiach must discover who is behind the deaths, how far the corruption within his own service extends, and what his wife understood about their marriage long before he did.

Status: Drafting.

Type: Novel.

Estimated Release: TBD