The chronological and geographic reference for Last Light: timeline, faction tree, and place index — the index card kept pinned over the desk for nine books.

Spreading Shadows is here — Book 4 of nine, and with Books 2 and 3 already on KU the shelf is finally deep enough to binge. For August, the Ashen Kingdoms saga gets the slot.

Why this series exists, what I was reading while writing it, why the protagonist had to be a child, and the ending I almost wrote and threw away.

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.