A series in five books
The Long Ledger
The whole story was played through to its end before a word of it was written down. The books are catching up. Start with Book One; you need nothing else.
Book One
What Is Owed
Finished and locked. Proofs next.
Book One
What Is Owed
Finished and locked. Proofs next.
Four coppers, his father's axe, and a job that closed when the Baron went missing and the forest started killing men.
OWED
PAID
- Owed
Passage across the sea to Urdas.
PaidSix days splitting galley wood, and the news that he was not made for the sea.
- Owed
Work in the timber country of the Emerald Forest.
PaidThe cut is closed. The only work left is going into the forest after the people it takes.
- Owed
Ten silver each, to bring a woman out of the spiders' wood.
PaidShe came out alive. The Baron of Ashlem did not.
- Owed
Not yet
PaidSeventy-five gold and a ten-sided ring, for carrying a locked box down a hill.
How it begins
“The arrow came back to his cheek and stopped there.”
Where it stands
- Drafted
- Copyedited
- Cover
- Finished
- Proofs
- In shops
Finished 29 September 2026. Proofs next.
Coming in paperback and ebook, with an audiobook planned. The release date goes to the list first.
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Each one opens when the last is done. The mailing list hears first.
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The mailing list hears first: the early chapters, the cover, a date, and now and then a place from the road that did not fit in the book. Leave any time.