Book One
Free on Royal Road this winter · complete edition 2027
Title reveal coming. The first ripple.
At the center of this world is the Still Lake — water wider than a country, older than the nations on its shores, and the source of every act of magic in it. Its surface is time itself: draw power from the Lake and ripples spread through the present, the past, and the future. A small draw fades in moments. A deep one can land centuries away.
The magic is called Flowcraft, and it cannot be commanded. It is received: you go still, the Lake gives what it chooses, and it keeps a price for everything it gives. Some are born with the shape to work it and the vessel to contain it. Very few ever learn the lesson underneath it — the difference between receiving what the water offers, and reaching for what it doesn't.
Two thousand years ago the Lake's stillness broke — the cataclysm the histories call the Surge, the reason the world you'll walk into is stitched together from what survived. Every generation since has rebuilt a little more, and as the story begins, the last aftershocks are finally fading. The water is calming. The world begins anew. The Chronicles follow the people who must decide what gets built next — and what it costs them.
The Shape of It
Four trilogies. Twelve books.
One story, told in four trilogies — twelve books spanning roughly three thousand years, the world before the Surge and the world remade after it. It begins with the first trilogy, below.
Trilogy One
A promise already kept.
Book One's first draft is complete — finished September 2026 at 213 chapters and ~223,000 words — and now in revision; it will be serialized free on Royal Road — chapter by chapter — beginning this winter. The complete edition (ebook, paperback, and hardcover) follows in 2027 — and the full first trilogy releases within a year of Book One, each book finished before the one before it reaches you. Book Two will be complete before Book One's complete edition ever ships. The wait between volumes is a season, not a decade.
Book Two
Finished before Book One's complete edition ships
The ripples begin to cross.
Book Three
Within a year of Book One
And then the water goes still.
Out now · free with the mailing list
On Flowcraft — a reader's companion
A reader's companion to the magic of the Still Lake — the six forms and what each one asks, the vessel and what it costs, the ripples and where they go. It lives on the mailing list, free, for the readers who want to understand a world rather than pass through it.
Where to Begin
The reading order
1 · Stories From The Still Lake — free, optional, and set long before everything else. Three self-contained legends; the perfect first taste of the water.
2 · On Flowcraft — a reader's companion — free with the mailing list, out now. The magic explained, the world's rules in hand. Optional, and it spoils nothing — read it whenever you like.
3 · Book One — where the Chronicles truly begin. Serialized free on Royal Road — chapter by chapter — beginning this winter; the complete edition (ebook, paperback, and hardcover) follows in 2027.
4 · Books Two & Three — within a year of Book One — each finished before the one before it launches.
If the shelves closest to your heart hold Jordan, Sanderson, Brooks, and Goodkind — or Hobb, Kay, and Le Guin — you're in the right place.