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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, and 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, Sul vows to stop the Baroness before she can unleash the weapon he brought her on an unsuspecting city. But how much of his old self must he resurrect in order to do it?

Progress: MS is back from the editor and I’m doing final edits. Also, cover art is done! I’ll likely get it out by the end of 2025.

Read a draft of the first scene in the story!

 

You know what’s NOT in progress?  The Heron Kings trilogy, out now!