The Sovereign Union
The Author’s Note, reproduced from the Reader Edition.
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The Sovereign Union
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The First Silence
A passage from the Aetherion Compendium.
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Eight books. Eight ways in.
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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.
Aetherion
Creation remembers what empires forget.
Six cosmic Gates sustain the world. One lies beyond its empires’ histories—and a buried age is returning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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