• The Manhattan Silence
    The Manhattan Silence ACT I The elevator doors opened on forty-two and I knew, with the cold certainty of a man who had spent his life reading documents for what they hid rather than what they said, that something was about to go very wrong. She stood in my penthouse lobby with a child holding her hand and a suitcase that looked like it had survived more moves than most people endure in a...
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  • The Jazz of the Deep Stars
    The Jazz of the Deep Stars Act I Claire died on a Thursday in October. The note on her desk was three lines long, written in a handwriting that started with mathematical precision and deteriorated into something that looked like a person watching their own hand fail: No more mathematics. No more physics.The anomaly is real. I can see the seams in the universe.Tell my mother I am sorry. Julian...
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  • The Gilded Reunion
    The Gilded Reunion ACT I The gaslight caught on her diamond pendant just as she turned her head, and Julian knew her before he knew what he was seeing. Seven years of imperial dust and Indian heat had not altered the fact: Eleanor Whitfield was standing at the far end of the Albright salon, one hand resting on the shoulder of a girl who could not have been more than five, the other leading a...
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  • Dust and Lead
    The Arizona sun was a white-hot hammer, beating the life out of everything that dared to stand. Silas sat on the porch of a rotting shack, cleaning a Colt .45 with a piece of greasy rag. He was twenty-four, but his eyes belonged to a man who had seen the end of the world and found it boring. Silas had been a "ghost" for the Blackwood Gang since he was twelve. He had learned to shoot before he...
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  • The Copywright Protocol: American Labor Naturalism Variant
    The Copywright Protocol: American Labor Naturalism Variant Batch 9 - Work ID 73231: The Copywright Protocol Tensor: TI=72.0, M=[7.0,0.5,6.0,3.0,4.0,3.0,3.0,6.0,2.0,6.0], N=[0.5,0.5], K=[0.5,0.5], theta=45.0 ACT I: THE BROCHURE The smoke in Pittsburgh made everything red. Not the fire-engine red of fire engines, which Rose had seen in pictures, but a dull, persistent red, the color of rust and...
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  • The Altar of Ashes
    The winter of 1898 descended upon New York like a heavy, velvet curtain. Silas lived in the attic of the Blackwood mansion, a space reserved for the forgotten and the broken. He was a shadow in a house of gold, a secret kept behind locked doors and heavy drapes. His only light was Elena. She was the daughter of a fallen aristocrat, a woman whose beauty was a haunting melody of grief and grace....
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  • The Secret of Magnolia Hall
    The Secret of Magnolia Hall ACT I The heat in southern Louisiana in August does not merely sit upon you—it presses, the way a hand presses against your chest when someone is trying to tell you something you do not want to hear. Roseanne Delacroix felt it the moment she stepped off the train at Beaumont Station, her single suitcase warm in her grip, the dust of the track settling into the...
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  • The Algorithm of Equity
    The air in Manhattan in 1924 was electric, a frantic symphony of saxophones and screeching tires. Leo lived in the dissonance between the penthouse and the pavement. By day, he was a ghost in the halls of Blackwood Finance, the empire built by a father who viewed his son as a mathematical error—a smudge on a pristine ledger of success. Leo did not seek his father's love; he sought the truth of...
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  • The Iron Crown of Ashes
    The fields of Agincourt were a sea of mud and blood, the final stage of a century of hatred. Alaric had been born into that mud, a peasant boy who had watched his village burn in the first year of the war. He had joined the Free Companies not for gold, but for the only thing the world had left to offer: the power to survive. For twenty years, Alaric climbed the ladder of corpses. He was a...
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  • The Iron Eye
    Part One The basement of the British Museum smelled of damp paper and forgotten centuries. Thomas Blackwood, twenty-two and newly hired as a junior archivist in the Department of Antiquities, spent his days cataloguing fragments. Shards of Samian ware. Rusty brooches from the Roman occupation. Coins worn smooth by two thousand years of hands. He found the coin in a crate from the latest...
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