Platinum PegasusPublishing
8 titles
Espionage, hidden institutions and a murder among royal hostages.
Original books, collections and projects at their current stage of development.
Espionage
His father’s secrets know his name.
Jonah Mercer is nineteen when a prince’s attempted abduction brings the Black Laurel into his life. It knew his missing father as Nightowl—and its promises have a way of surviving the people who make them.
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Espionage
Your name belongs to an older promise.
Inside the Black Laurel, a name can secure protection before its bearer understands the obligations it carries. Sovereign guarantees cross generations, bringing old promises into lives that have only just begun.
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Espionage
A safe place is someone else's promise.
The Black Laurel's protected places bind hosts and guests through guarantees of shelter. Behind every refuge are people with loyalties and obligations of their own. Trust needs someone willing to answer for it.
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Espionage
What you never knew can still bind you.
The Laurel's memory reaches beyond any one lifetime. Protected families inherit ties they may understand only in fragments, while promises made long ago can still claim a place in the lives they are living now.
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Espionage
The Laurel is a hard habit to lose.
The Laurel's training travels with the people who pass through it. Recruits, instructors and former trainees carry its habits and loyalties into different lives, each with a different understanding of what belonging means.
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Espionage
Someone must answer for the promises of the dead.
The Black Laurel carries its guarantees across generations. Those expected to honor them may never have met the people who gave their word. The promise survives as a responsibility someone living must carry.
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Court mystery
Seven heirs. One murder. Six reasons to lie.
Seven kingdoms pledge seven heirs to a covenant. One is murdered. The six survivors need allies to expose the killer before the bargain claims them too—but every ally is someone they have reason to suspect.
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Institutional thriller
The world cannot afford to stop for its rulers.
Civilization runs on food, energy, finance and communications. Atlas guards those foundations under an obligation that can collide with the political order the Black Laurel protects. Keeping legitimate order intact and keeping people alive may demand different loyalties.
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