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Project Complete!
The Palisade Journals | Volume 5 — The Broker’s Gambit is out now!!!!!!!!
How a warehouse clerk’s curiosity about shipping invoices became a five-volume exploration of power, resistance, and the price of choosing justice over comfort.
Today marks the completion of something I never thought I’d live to finish: The Palisade Journals, a five-volume chronicle set in the world of Blood & Steel that began as scattered ideas around D&D tables thirty years ago and has now found its way to Amazon as a complete collection.
The final volume, The Broker’s Gambit, follows Rhowan Cade — a charming information broker whose investigation into suspicious fish waste invoices leads him into the heart of continental politics and a shadow war he never imagined existed. It’s the story of how ordinary people discover they can’t remain neutral when neutrality means complicity.
But it’s also the capstone of something much larger.
Thirty Years of Building a World
The Blood & Steel universe didn’t emerge fully formed. It grew organically from decades of wondering: What if the people in power weren’t evil, just convinced…
