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Original fiction, ideas and story worlds from the House.
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.
Read for A man’s perspective on commitment, autonomy and the practical consequences of legal choices.
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.
Read for Mythic scale, buried histories and civilizations whose explanations of the world do not agree.
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.
Read for Family mysteries, hidden institutions and loyalties that outlive the people who formed them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Supernatural inheritance, moral pressure and the struggle to break an inherited pattern.
New questions, imagined worlds and a companion perspective on sovereignty.
Philosophy & Theology
A ruler’s conscience is never a private matter.
Faith, duty and conviction can steady a ruler’s hand. Other people live with what that hand does. From Moses to Machiavelli, The Crown and the Conscience puts the moral authority behind political power under pressure.
Book and cover in development
Epic Fantasy
How much mercy can a kingdom survive?
He believes a ruler’s duty is to preserve life. Defending his kingdom puts that belief to the test. Every act of mercy must answer to the people who depend on him for protection.
Book and cover in development
Ideas & Society
The promise is mutual. The choice is yours.
A woman brings a life of her own to a lifelong promise. Love, law and independence belong in the conversation before she decides what to give, what to expect and what to agree to.
Companion in concept development
Institutional thriller
The world cannot afford to stop for its rulers.
Civilization runs on food, energy, finance and communications. Atlas guards those foundations under an obligation that can collide with the political order the Black Laurel protects. Keeping legitimate order intact and keeping people alive may demand different loyalties.
Story development
Mythological fiction
He wants to live forever. They want him to live.
Achilles wants an undying name. Patroclus and Thetis want the man alive. Across the war, Hector and Priam have loves of their own, as the promise of glory presses against everything a mortal life can hold.
Prose treatment under exploration
Early fiction projects. Each page identifies the current direction and what remains in development.
Legal fantasy
Someone has to tell the immortals they’re wrong.
A mortal law student challenges a ruling from an immortal tribunal whose authority reaches across kings, nations and civilizations. One human argument presses against the power to judge everyone else—and the assumption of having the last word.
Concept in development
Speculative fantasy
The world obeys words. The bloodlines guard them.
A language that commands creation survives in fragments held by different bloodlines. The limits of their knowledge keep power divided—until someone understands across those fragments and threatens the balance the families depend on.
Concept in development
Archaeological mystery
The empire vanished from history. Its reach did not.
An empire was deliberately erased from history. Archaeology uncovers its traces; surviving bloodlines and institutions reveal its continuing reach. Recovering the past could make restoration possible before anyone understands why that past was buried.
Concept in development
Dynastic fantasy
The assassin’s greatest enemy is their child’s inheritance.
An assassin destroys the supernatural Crowns that empower dynasties—then discovers their own child is heir to the greatest one. The next blow against inherited power could strike the person they most need to protect.
Concept in development
Occult fantasy
They guard Solomon’s secrets. Some would rather command them.
Solomon’s dangerous writings, objects, contracts and entities rest with Houses divided over their duty. Some would keep the inheritance sealed. Others want knowledge or power from the very things they were entrusted to guard.
Concept in development
Mythic fantasy
The boundary between worlds is someone’s life.
The hidden Eighth Seal is a person whose choice may preserve or undo the separation between mortal and divine. Anyone with a design for that boundary must reckon with a life that has its own will.
Concept in development
Planned Black Laurel installments and working Labyrinth sequel titles. Follow each book back to its series.
Espionage
Your name belongs to an older promise.
Inside the Black Laurel, a name can secure protection before its bearer understands the obligations it carries. Sovereign guarantees cross generations, bringing old promises into lives that have only just begun.
Series installment concept
Espionage
A safe place is someone else's promise.
The Black Laurel's protected places bind hosts and guests through guarantees of shelter. Behind every refuge are people with loyalties and obligations of their own. Trust needs someone willing to answer for it.
Series installment concept
Espionage
What you never knew can still bind you.
The Laurel's memory reaches beyond any one lifetime. Protected families inherit ties they may understand only in fragments, while promises made long ago can still claim a place in the lives they are living now.
Series installment concept
Espionage
The Laurel is a hard habit to lose.
The Laurel's training travels with the people who pass through it. Recruits, instructors and former trainees carry its habits and loyalties into different lives, each with a different understanding of what belonging means.
Series installment concept
Espionage
Someone must answer for the promises of the dead.
The Black Laurel carries its guarantees across generations. Those expected to honor them may never have met the people who gave their word. The promise survives as a responsibility someone living must carry.
Series installment concept
Mythological adventure
The maze had a maker. The maker had a reason.
A family searches for home inside an invention that learns from them. Following the Labyrinth's workings into the history and engineering of Daedalus brings them closer to the mind that made their survival so difficult.
Exploratory trilogy proposal
Mythological adventure
Home is more than a way out.
A family's search for home reaches the deepest purpose of Daedalus's creation. The answers matter to people living inside the mystery, trying to understand the Labyrinth without losing their hold on one another.
Exploratory trilogy proposal
Word searches, coloring, legal puzzles and journals. Product concepts and available samples are identified on their pages.
Puzzles & Activity Books
The gods are hiding in the grid.
Greek mythology puts gods, heroes and monsters in your sights. Three large-print sample puzzles lead from Olympus to the Labyrinth and Medusa's Gaze, with diagonal and backward searches adding to the hunt.
Playable sampler completed
Puzzles & Activity Books
Find a word. Meet a legend.
Greek mythology has names worth looking for. Young readers follow the letters, spot hidden words and make discoveries of their own in a children's word-search collection built around the world of the legends.
Concept development
Puzzles & Activity Books
Make a case for your vocabulary.
Search for legal terms and try your hand at trivia drawn from vocabulary and torts. A puzzle break for anyone who enjoys recognizing the right word—and spending a little longer with the idea behind it.
Concept & cover studies
Journals & Planners
Put the unfinished on paper.
For thoughts worth keeping and plans still taking shape. Journals & Planners makes room for personal writing and everyday organization, without asking you to have the whole day—or the whole idea—settled first.
Format exploration
Puzzles & Activity Books
The legends are old. The colors are yours.
A world of Greek mythology, ready for a young imagination. This children's coloring collection invites readers to choose the colors and make the pictures their own, giving the legends a different look on every page.
Illustrated activity concept
Proposed illustrated editions of Sun Tzu and Marcus Aurelius. Edition details and translations are not yet announced.
Illustrated Classics
The first move is to understand.
Read the situation before you commit yourself to it. Sun Tzu brings preparation, resources and judgment to the study of conflict, asking the reader to consider what a decision will set in motion.
Exploratory edition concept
Illustrated Classics
Even an emperor has to live with himself.
An emperor turns inward to examine the conduct of one man: himself. These private reflections on duty, change and self-discipline speak to the work of living well when events will not obey.
Exploratory edition concept
Research & essays
Explore the research titles and cover studies. Texts will be published after final review and approval.
The Peretz Papers · 5 projects
The Peretz Papers: essays, a policy manuscript and working research briefs. Texts will be published after final review and approval.
The Peretz Papers · 21 concepts
The developing questions behind The Peretz Papers. Explore each cover and its current project record.
