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Authors at the House

The author behind the House.

Original books. Shared questions.
One founding author, with worlds to explore.

Ori Refael Peretz

Founder, publisher & author

From the promises that shape a shared life to the powers that shape imagined worlds, Ori’s work returns to questions of choice, inheritance and obligation.

Ori Refael Peretz, founder and author
Ori Refael Peretz · Founder & author

Nonfiction · Fantasy · Espionage

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Books by Ori Refael Peretz

The complete body of work.

Explore all 31 books, editions and activity collections. Each title carries its current development stage.

The founding books.

8 titles & collections
The Sovereign Union coverIdeas & Society

The Sovereign Union

Give your heart. Know what you’re promising.

Marriage, independence and mutual protection—the questions a man should face before he promises someone his life.

First edition in preparation

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Aetherion coverEpic Fantasy

Aetherion

Creation remembers what empires forget.

Six cosmic Gates sustain the world. One lies beyond its empires’ histories—and a buried age is returning.

Book I in development

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The Black Laurel coverEspionage

The Black Laurel

His father’s secrets know his name.

Jonah Mercer interrupts a royal abduction. The institution that knew his missing father as Nightowl takes notice.

Series in development

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Enter the Labyrinth coverMythological adventure

Enter the Labyrinth

The maze is learning to read them.

A Greek holiday traps a family inside Daedalus’s invention. Its corridors move. Its architecture can learn.

Publication details not announced

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Memento coverPolitical fantasy

Memento

The crown is yours. The dead have other ideas.

A new monarch inherits the wisdom of dead rulers—and their unfinished claims on the living kingdom.

Publication details not announced

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Aristeia coverMythic fantasy

Aristeia

The gods watch. The heroes bleed.

Demigods and chosen mortals chase a heroic name through monsters, hunts and rivals—and the dangerous business of divine favor.

Publication details not announced

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The Golden Hostage coverCourt mystery

The Golden Hostage

Seven heirs. One murder. Six reasons to lie.

Bound by a royal covenant, six surviving heirs must solve a murder before their kingdoms’ bargain claims them.

Publication details not announced

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Legacy of Cain coverDark fantasy

Legacy of Cain

The first murder still has heirs.

A new heir inherits Cain’s Mark—and enemies who see a bloodline to control, exploit or erase.

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Further works in development.

18 titles & collections
The Crown and the Conscience coverPhilosophy & Theology

The Crown and the Conscience

A ruler’s conscience is never a private matter.

From Moses to Machiavelli, the right to command meets the lives that must bear its consequences.

Book and cover in development

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The Shepherd and the Sword coverEpic Fantasy

The Shepherd and the Sword

How much mercy can a kingdom survive?

A leader devoted to preserving life must defend a kingdom through choices that threaten everything he believes.

Book and cover in development

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The Sovereign Her coverIdeas & Society

The Sovereign Her

The promise is mutual. The choice is yours.

Before building a life around love, make room for the woman who has to live it.

Companion in concept development

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The Atlas Covenant coverInstitutional thriller

The Atlas Covenant

The world cannot afford to stop for its rulers.

Atlas protects the systems civilization runs on. Its duty may put it at odds with the powers Laurel protects.

Story development

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Achilles’ Heel: The Novel coverMythological fiction

Achilles’ Heel: The Novel

He wants to live forever. They want him to live.

Achilles pursues a name death cannot touch, while Patroclus and Thetis hold him to the life glory could take.

Prose treatment under exploration

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Ivory coverLegal fantasy

Ivory

Someone has to tell the immortals they’re wrong.

A mortal law student contests a ruling of the tribunal above kings—and puts its own authority on trial.

Concept in development

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Babel coverSpeculative fantasy

Babel

The world obeys words. The bloodlines guard them.

Families inherit fragments of creation’s language. One person can understand across the divisions that keep their power in balance.

Concept in development

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Dominion coverArchaeological mystery

Dominion

The empire vanished from history. Its reach did not.

Archaeology uncovers an erased empire whose bloodlines and institutions endure—and whose return may be possible.

Concept in development

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Crownless coverDynastic fantasy

Crownless

The assassin’s greatest enemy is their child’s inheritance.

An assassin hunts the Crowns that empower dynasties. Their own child stands to inherit the greatest of them.

Concept in development

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House of Sol coverOccult fantasy

House of Sol

They guard Solomon’s secrets. Some would rather command them.

The Houses hold dangerous writings, contracts and entities. Keeping them sealed is only one answer to Solomon’s inheritance.

Concept in development

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8th Seal coverMythic fantasy

8th Seal

The boundary between worlds is someone’s life.

The Eighth Seal is a person. Their choice could keep mortal and divine apart—or bring the boundary down.

Concept in development

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Black Passport coverEspionage

Black Passport

Your name belongs to an older promise.

A family name grants the Laurel's protection—and binds its bearer to promises made generations earlier.

Series installment concept

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Sanctuary coverEspionage

Sanctuary

A safe place is someone else's promise.

The Laurel offers protected places. Their safety rests on people willing to keep their word.

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The Index coverEspionage

The Index

What you never knew can still bind you.

The Laurel remembers the promises behind protected families, including histories their living heirs may never have been told.

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The Alumni coverEspionage

The Alumni

The Laurel is a hard habit to lose.

Training leaves habits. The Laurel leaves people carrying very different versions of the same institution.

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The Century coverEspionage

The Century

Someone must answer for the promises of the dead.

The people who gave their word are gone. Another generation inherits the responsibility of keeping it.

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The House of Daedalus coverMythological adventure

The House of Daedalus

The maze had a maker. The maker had a reason.

To find a way home, a family must understand the mind behind a world that thinks.

Exploratory trilogy proposal

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The Last Thread coverMythological adventure

The Last Thread

Home is more than a way out.

A family reaches for the Labyrinth's deepest purpose, holding on to the hope of going home together.

Exploratory trilogy proposal

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Activity books & journals.

5 titles & collections
Greek Mythology Word Search coverPuzzles & Activity Books

Greek Mythology Word Search

The gods are hiding in the grid.

Search Olympus, the Labyrinth and Medusa's Gaze in three large-print sample puzzles that grow more demanding.

Playable sampler completed

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Authors & Agents

Current submissions policy.

General unsolicited submissions are currently closed while the Founding List is completed. Selected projects may be considered by invitation or professional introduction.

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