Commitment & choice
Love, independence and mutual protection in The Sovereign Union.
Authors at the HouseFounder & Author
Ori Refael Peretz
Ori Refael Peretz is an author and the founder of Platinum Pegasus Publishing. A law student at Nova Southeastern University, he writes across fantasy, espionage and nonfiction, exploring the moments when love, loyalty and ambition ask different things of the same person.
Across the writingWhat we choose.
What we choose.
What we inherit.
From the responsibilities of a ruler to the promises made between partners, he examines what it means to become worthy of another person’s trust. In The Sovereign Union, that question takes an intimate form: how two people can build a life together while remaining fully themselves.
“I want to write books people return to, finding something different as their own lives change.”
Inheritance & obligation
A father’s secrets in The Black Laurel. A throne’s preserved minds in Memento. A bloodline’s Mark in Legacy of Cain.
Power & belief
Sacred institutions in Aetherion and divine sponsors in Aristeia.
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An author’s note, a glimpse of creation lore, or an introduction to the Black Laurel.
The Sovereign Union
On love, marriage and choosing deliberately. Read the author’s note from the manuscript preview.
Read the author’s noteThe First Silence
Enter Aetherion’s creation lore through a short worldbuilding excerpt.
Read the excerptThe Black Laurel
Meet Jonah Mercer and the hidden obligations behind the series.
Read the introductionBooks by Ori Refael Peretz
The founding collection.
Eight books across nonfiction, fantasy, mythology and espionage. Each title carries its current development stage.
Ideas & SocietyThe Sovereign Union
Give your heart. Know what you’re promising.
A man can mean every word of a vow and still misunderstand the promise. Love, marriage and mutual protection meet in a candid guide to the choices that shape a shared life.
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Epic FantasyAetherion
Creation remembers what empires forget.
Six Gates sustain a world shaped by divine Resonance. Its empires know five. A buried age is returning with a past their sacred orders may find more dangerous than any rival kingdom.
Book I in development
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EspionageThe Black Laurel
His father’s secrets know his name.
Jonah Mercer is nineteen when a prince’s attempted abduction brings the Black Laurel into his life. It knew his missing father as Nightowl—and its promises have a way of surviving the people who make them.
Series in development
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Mythological adventureEnter the Labyrinth
The maze is learning to read them.
A family and their friends enter Daedalus’s immense Labyrinth on a holiday in Greece. Finding home means understanding an ancient physical intelligence that can change its corridors—and learn from the people inside them.
Read for Contemporary mythology, survival and mysteries that reward curiosity.
Publication details not announced
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Political fantasyMemento
The crown is yours. The dead have other ideas.
The throne preserves the minds of dead rulers. Its new monarch inherits their wisdom, rival ambitions and unfinished business. The crown gives one person authority. The voices make that authority difficult to trust.
Read for A living monarch’s struggle with the minds and ambitions of the dead.
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Mythic fantasyAristeia
The gods watch. The heroes bleed.
Demigods, heroic heirs and chosen mortals compete under divine sponsors, facing monsters, hunts and rival champions. Courage can win a contest. Earning a heroic name also means winning the favor of the powers watching it.
Read for Divine trials, heroic rivalry and the cost of ambition.
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Court mysteryThe Golden Hostage
Seven heirs. One murder. Six reasons to lie.
Seven kingdoms pledge seven heirs to a covenant. One is murdered. The six survivors need allies to expose the killer before the bargain claims them too—but every ally is someone they have reason to suspect.
Read for Court intrigue, competing loyalties and mysteries with consequences beyond the crime.
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Dark fantasyLegacy of Cain
The first murder still has heirs.
Cain’s Mark survives in hidden descendants, manifesting differently across generations. Its newest bearer inherits power and becomes a target for groups determined to control, exploit or eliminate it. What began with a murder is now a hunt.
Read for The Mark’s hidden descendants and a bearer pursued for an inheritance they did not choose.
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18 titles & collections
Philosophy & TheologyThe 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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Epic FantasyThe 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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Ideas & SocietyThe 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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Institutional thrillerThe 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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Mythological fictionAchilles’ 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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Legal fantasyIvory
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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Speculative fantasyBabel
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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Archaeological mysteryDominion
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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Dynastic fantasyCrownless
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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Occult fantasyHouse 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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Mythic fantasy8th 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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EspionageBlack 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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EspionageSanctuary
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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EspionageThe 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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EspionageThe 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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EspionageThe 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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Mythological adventureThe 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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Mythological adventureThe 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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5 titles & collections
Puzzles & Activity BooksGreek 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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Puzzles & Activity BooksGreek Mythology Word Search for Kids
Find a word. Meet a legend.
Greek mythology becomes a hunt for hidden words, with a new discovery waiting in the letters.
Concept development
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Puzzles & Activity BooksLegal Word Search & Trivia
Make a case for your vocabulary.
Hidden terms and legal trivia put your attention to work on the language of law.
Concept & cover studies
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Journals & PlannersJournals & Planners
Put the unfinished on paper.
Keep a thought, work through a decision or give tomorrow's plans room to take shape.
Format exploration
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Puzzles & Activity BooksKids’ Greek Mythology Coloring Books
The legends are old. The colors are yours.
Give Greek mythology a child's choice of color, with pictures waiting for a personal touch.
Illustrated activity concept
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Original texts by Sun Tzu & Marcus Aurelius
Sun Tzu · Illustrated ClassicsThe Art of War
The first move is to understand.
Sun Tzu turns attention to the preparation and judgment behind a decision to act.
Exploratory edition concept
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Marcus Aurelius · Illustrated ClassicsMeditations
Even an emperor has to live with himself.
Marcus Aurelius turns inward, confronting the daily work of governing his own conduct and responses.
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Explore the editionResearch & policy writing
Arguments beyond the books.
Selected research and policy projects. Text forthcoming after final review and approval.
- 01Research · Text forthcomingView the project
The Origins of Sexual Variation
- 02Research · Text forthcomingView the project
The Origins of Sexual Variation: Technical Companion
- 03Research · Text forthcomingView the project
The Youth Trauma Epidemic
- 04Research · Text forthcomingView the project
The American Ascent Act — The Peretz Edition
From the Journal
The thinking around the work.
On inherited authority, the discipline of a fictional world and the experience of a physical book.
Professional materials
Author resources.
The approved biography, original author portrait and direct routes for interviews, press and rights enquiries.
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