Platinum PegasusPublishingThe Black Laurel
Some inherit money. Some inherit names. Jonah Mercer inherited unfinished business.
On his nineteenth birthday, Jonah Mercer survives an attack that should have killed him and is pulled toward the hidden institution that once claimed his father.
Inheritance can be more dangerous than blood.
Jonah Mercer is nineteen when unfinished business from his father's hidden life finds him. The attack that follows reveals that the institutions shaping history are not always the ones the public can see.
Legacy is only useful if you survive long enough to understand it.
Jonah Mercer
Nineteen, underestimated and suddenly visible to people who were never supposed to notice him.
The Laurel
A hidden international institution built around guarantees, training, influence and old obligations.
Nightowl
Jacob Mercer, Jonah's missing father, remains the unanswered question behind the series.
The work has more than one doorway.
Bond scale. Wick momentum. Institutional depth.
The series is designed around a recurring engine of recruits, instructors, alumni, protected bloodlines, regional nodes and hidden factions. Jonah enters through a personal mystery, but the world around him is large enough to sustain operations, rivalries and legacy across multiple books.
Read around the workAn object with the same identity as the work.
The visual system uses black, restrained crimson, architectural silhouettes and laurel symbolism. It should feel prestigious before it feels violent, because the central tension is not only danger. It is legitimacy.
Know when The Black Laurel moves.
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