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Prologue + 48 chapters · Phonon Spencer drafting read

Kindling 2680 — Book One (Monroe 2.0)

Published 31 October 2026

The newest edition of Kindling 2680, Book One: the Monroe 2.0 rewrite, complete. Kiva Rowan climbs the Placement Hall steps with one plan for the moment the Chair says her name: do not put out the lamps.

Book 2 (Monroe 2.0) · 48 chapters · Phonon Spencer Clean Splice read

The Saltmere Gates

Published 1 November 2026

The newest edition of Kindling 2680, Book Two, following Book One (Monroe 2.0). Kiva Rowan's hands have gone dark and her knee is on a stick, and Lampshed goes south to the National Gates at Saltmere with or without her, where the rounds run through the Graving and the harbour's own gates.

Standalone · draft · Chapters 1–18 on the shelf

Under

Noah Chandler, seventeen, goes under for ACL surgery and wakes in the body of Chan, the version of himself from a rougher city, one day after a job went wrong and cost him a leg. Movements 1–3 (Chapters 1–18) are on the shelf; the book runs to 29.

Polished reading edition · 34 chapters

The Woman the Little Girl Became

A girl raised among family traditions in Germany grows through illness, motherhood, loss, and reinvention to reclaim a life of her own.

As supplied · 34 chapters

The Woman the Little Girl Became — Original Manuscript

The author's original manuscript, with every chapter preserved as supplied and read by Emma in British English.

Driftwing Stable · Book 1 · illustrated chapter book

The Secret in the Fifth Stall

Eleven chapters for readers seven to eight. Olivia, Hadley, and the one who draws. A Teller cannot live alone.

Driftwing · Book 1 · Monroe 1.3 clean rebuild

A Voice in the Dust

Olivia and Hadley find a dust-pale creature in the fifth stall — one that draws its thoughts in the air and may be searching for something the adults cannot see.

Driftwing · Book 2 · Monroe 1.3 clean rebuild

Half the Page

Nine days after the fifth stall changed everything, new marks appear, old records open, and the twins discover that every answer has another half.

Driftwing · Book 3 · Monroe 1.3 clean rebuild

The Steam Runs Thin

When the nightly visits change and the cold vent grows colder, the twins must carry what they have learned beyond the stable and into a crisis beneath Whin Cross.

The Farbound Accord · Book 1 · draft

The Error That Crossed the Dark

Author Lab draft. Jonah Vale has proved the signal is not noise. Now he must decide whether its vectors describe a target — or something broken asking the Solar System for help. Chapter 5 is on the shelf.

Penname · craft and narration listen tests

Proof of Craft

Four writing-harness comparisons, two Kindling detail-pass comparisons, two Tallow Gate narrator auditions, and four matched Driftwing replacement-cast reels.

Asterion Trilogy · Book 1

The Ninth Standard

Kade Mercer: zero output score, last-ranked freshman, impossible boundary architecture. The academy that rejected him becomes the one thing he has to save.

Asterion Trilogy · Book 2

The Twelfth Resonant

Kade and the Asterion cohort enter an international system while the returned signal becomes a physical countdown and a test of authority without permanent centers.

Contact Zero Trilogy · Book 1

Contact Zero

Station engineer Aaron Mercer discovers an anomalous array that should not exist and cannot be explained. The signal it carries is not a malfunction. It is addressed.

The Quiet Ward Trilogy · Book 1

The Quiet Ward

Dr. Sable Hren. Room Four. A patient whose field instruments return null — not low, not zero. Null. Thirty-three days to learn what the instruments cannot say.

The Fractured Path · Book 1

The Shattered

Cael's Kindling returns [SHATTERED] — no tier, no Path, no place in the Compact. Expelled at fourteen, he learns the circuit does not care what the registry says.

The Fractured Path · Book 1 · Monroe 1.3 edition

The Shattered

Cael has collected eleven answers to what Kindling feels like and filed every one in his notebook. At fourteen his own returns [SHATTERED] — no tier, no Path — and the Compact tells him to leave.

The Fractured Path · Book 1 · Monroe 2.0 · Phonon Spencer Clean Splice read

The Shattered (Monroe 2.0)

Published 1 November 2026

The newest edition of The Fractured Path, Book One, rewritten from the cleaned canon. Cael has spent his life at his grandfather's bench watching Hesk read a lock by touch. At fourteen his Kindling plate lights late and shows [SHATTERED], and by morning he has to leave the house.

The Fractured Path · Book 2

Iron Circuit

A year after expulsion, Cael is Assessed-Copper in Ardenmere's underground circuit. The Ironyard records what happened — and that is about to make him visible.

The Fractured Path · Book 2 · Monroe 1.3 edition

Iron Circuit

A year after his expulsion, Cael fights Assessed-Copper in the Ironyard and writes every opponent into a grey book, because watching hands is how he stays standing. Outside the walls the registry's sweeps come more often, and he has started a page of their habits.

The Fractured Path · Book 3

No Path Given

Greyvane Academy takes the mispriced. Cael enrolls on a demonstration provision — still [SHATTERED], still unenumerated — and learns the Compact's case is a schedule, not a law.

The Fractured Path · Book 3 · Monroe 1.3 edition

No Path Given

Cael, Brom and Lira reach Greyvane Academy, where the intake room has three desks and the board over the third is blank. Cael decides the question worth asking is why the academy took the risk, and he means to be shown the accounts.

The Fractured Path · Book 4

Copper Crown

Halcenvane. Mid-tier. A Crown ladder, an embedded watcher who starts omitting, and an Archmarshal who does not wish Cael harm — he wishes him measured.

The Fractured Path · Book 4 · Monroe 1.3 edition

Copper Crown

With one term left at Greyvane and the hearing behind him, Cael needs a school that will take a boy with no Path. Karis finds an old clause that nobody repealed, and an academy called Halcenvane may be bound by it.

The Fractured Path · Book 5

The Silver Standard

Norhold. The Continental Academy Tournament. Fielded on a clause, rated by the fairest instrument on the continent, Cael faces Daeva — nineteen, Gold Rank 3 — and shows the judges something no table can hold. The panel writes: unscorable. The machine begins deciding what he is.

The Fractured Path · Book 5 · Monroe 1.3 edition

The Silver Standard

A continental tournament is coming, and Cael’s name is on the travel roster by the plain operation of other people’s honest paperwork. To compete he must learn the fairest instrument on the continent: five judges, three marks each, and a par that tells everyone exactly what he is.

The Fractured Path · Book 6 · Monroe 1.3 edition

The Compact’s Hand

The year after Norhold begins quietly, and then the Compact files. A formal challenge to the basis of Cael’s enrollment arrives under seal, and the people who taught him to keep true records must now keep them in a proceeding built to end him.

The Fractured Path · Book 7 · Monroe 1.3 edition

Void Roads

East of the Registry Line the maps stop being labelled. Five people with a cart, three boxes and no standing anywhere take carriers’ work on the void roads, where the rule is to walk quiet and declare nothing.

The Fractured Path · Book 8 · Monroe 1.3 edition

Before the Paths

The ferry at Lowmarch has stopped, and every count in the dead surveyor’s book stops at the same river. Five people sit out the cold east of the Line with a map they cannot read and a bearing that points back the way they came.

The Fractured Path · Book 6

The Compact's Hand

A petition arrives under the Compact's hand: re-evaluate the unscorable. The defense wins every argument for a term — and a locked case, kept through nineteen postings, finally opens. What Cael learns about the instrument that failed him ends with five resignations and a walk east, past the last station, across the Registry Line.

The Fractured Path · Book 7

Void Roads

East of the Registry Line the maps are dashed and unlabeled. Cael takes work on the void roads — and finds quiet ground where every Path dies except his. All 24 chapters are on the shelf.

The Fractured Path · Book 8

Before the Paths

Winter ends at Lowmarch. The ferry has not run. Cael is nineteen, still unenumerated, and the maps from the void roads point at something the Compact spent six years burying. All 24 chapters are on the shelf.

Good Bones · Book 1

Good Bones

Dale Morrow, sixty-eight, dies under a client's kitchen sink with the job half-finished. He wakes in the emptied body of a sixteen-year-old boy who survived a monster that should have killed him. All 20 chapters are on the shelf.

Good Bones · Book 2 · draft

Load-Bearing

The world beyond Vereth reaches into the life Dale chose. A monster migration is moving against its natural current, and the damage pattern points to a human hand. Chapters 1–17 are on the shelf.