Last Light in the Dark

A non-canon deleted scene from The Vatican Children, dramatizing the night Bishop Glasser stopped being a parish priest and started becoming the trilogy's villain. Cut for narrative gravity. Preserved for paid readers.

A scene that survived three drafts of Raven's Rise before I cut it. Arthur, Abigail, Frieda, Haatim — the corridor they walked, the conversation they had, and the word she spoke that the published trilogy never lets her say.

A small crew of readers who get my books free, weeks before launch. First up: Last Light in the Dark.

A scene cut from The Eternal Vigil, set 10,273 years before the events of the series. The Progenitor scientist who became the first anchor tells the story of her last day above the lattice, in her own voice. Canon-adjacent. The apple is real.

Ohio isn't a postcard hiking state. No Rockies, no Cascades. But after years of exploring its gorges, forests, and preserves, I'm convinced it's underrated.

I built a system that plays my games thousands of times. The data broke every assumption I had — UX problems outnumbered bugs 2:1, and I'd been designing for the wrong player all along.

37 browser-based developer tools. No tracking. No cookies. No ads. Here's every tool on Swiss Army Dev and which ones I actually use.

The defrocked exorcist, his father's kukri, a slow recovery, and the question every reader of The Covenant Files asks: who is Marcus Kane, when the gunslinger frame is stripped away?

A long-form dossier on Sir Petro Marok — what he was before the Church, what he counted, the woman he loved, the friend he could not unmake, and what he built before he died. Spoilers for the entire trilogy.