Thomas Crane walks into the Manor to bring his dead wife home. There is a door, and it is marked out. The very first run — before the cycle locked, before the names were erased. A members-only Escape short story, and a Rosetta Stone for the four iterations.

A scene cut from Whispered Dark in revision. Chelsea, Kate, a guitar in a storage room, and ninety seconds of a child laughing for the first time since Sanctuary. Non-canon, but I kept the file.

The executioner's apprentice, herself once branded a heretic's child, takes up the slow knife for her first solo killing. Then the condemned man, with the blade already at his throat, says the one thing no one else in the square can hear.

Last Light in the Dark just landed on KU — Book 1 of a nine-book sci-fi arc. For July, the World of Shadows trilogy gets the binge slot.

Graveyard of Empires — Book One of my military sci-fi saga — is free on Kindle July 17 to 21, 2026. A full-length novel, yours to keep.

The doomed Greenland station whose disappearance bookends The Long Dark. Six scientists, four months into the polar night, realize the dark is lasting too long. A members-only short story.

Kate Morrison's official DDI file fits on three screens. This is the other one — the private dossier behind the protagonist of nine books, including the childhood the books did not have time to show and the ending nobody else could have written.

No screen, no jump scare, no monster to show. Writing horror for Alexa stripped fear down to pacing, silence, and the dark the listener fills in themselves.

A World Reborn short. The retired Hunter Arthur Vangeest surrenders his field journal to the Council archive, and the young orphanage archivist who logs it discovers he stood her secret vigil for nineteen years, and that she can never tell him she knows.