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The Artificer’s Knot 
A new story not part of the Heron Kings trilogy, but set in the same world a few years after Rampant. Randyll Tephius is thrown out of the University in disgrace after challenging the alchemists and their energy monopoly brought by the mysterious Vril. At his lowest point he’s taken under the wing of notorious gang boss Gouger Nebb, who plans to use Ran’s knowledge of petroleum and engineering to make his final fortune.
But powerful factions fear the new industry. They’ll stop at nothing to take and keep the ultimate power of the age, and Ran will find himself twisted into a knot caught between multiple deadly forces.
Progress: Second draft finished! Now waiting on beta readers, currently at 98K words. I’m also in the queue for cover art from the very talented J Caleb Design.
Read an excerpt from early in the story.
While We Bleed
Ardana Sul was a true bastard’s bastard. For the right price he’d get you anything, anyone, anywhere and not ask questions. So when the Baroness hired him to obtain the last known vial of plague dust, it was business as usual. He should’ve known she wouldn’t leave any witnesses. Flintlocks flashed, windows shattered, and his head slammed into sharp rock. He escaped with his life, but not his memory.
Dredged from the river by a fisherman and his son, Sul slowly recovers with no recollection of his past or his name. He doesn’t understand why simple kindnesses feel alien to him, but he experiences something his ill-gotten earnings could never buy: a measure of peace. But when the Baroness’ henchmen come to finish the job, his hands remember how to use a sword even if he doesn’t. Finally remembering his terrible deeds, he vows to stop the Baroness before she can unleash the weapon he brought her on an unsuspecting city.
Progress: About 19K words drafted, outline finished. Probably will end up novella or short novel length.
You know what’s NOT in progress? The Heron Kings trilogy, out now!
