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The Fractured Veil Saga
Haakin Fried
The Fractured Veil Saga is a dark fantasy series of consequence, sacrifice, strange magic, and ordinary heroes caught in powers far beyond themselves.Readers may begin with either The Fool Wizard or Ashes of the Crusade, two mirrored prequel timelines that reveal different roads toward the same breaking point. From there, both paths converge in The Rift. The Rift was the first novel forged from the notes of Haakin Fried’s long-running tabletop fantasy campaign.Read one prequel. Read both. Then step through The Rift.
The Fool Wizard
Before the Rift. Before the war. Before the world learned what darkness could become.A wandering wizard with more power than sense stumbles into a rising threat that will one day reshape history. What begins as mischief, magic, and reckless curiosity soon becomes the first step toward a much larger fate.
Ashes of the Crusade
The crusade was meant to cleanse the world. Instead, it left only ash.As faith hardens into violence and old powers stir beneath the surface, the path toward the Rift grows darker with every choice. Heroes are tested, enemies rise, and the cost of conviction begins to outweigh the cause that first inspired it.Set in the same time as The Fool Wizard and before The Rift, Ashes of the Crusade is a dark fantasy tale of faith, fire, consequence, and the ruin left behind when righteous men become weapons.
The Rift
The first tale forged from the notes of a campaign, The Rift began at the table with friends and grew into the foundation of the Fractured Veil Saga.When a tear opens above Gildershire, darkness spills into the world and ordinary heroes are forced into a battle far larger than they understand. Ancient powers stir, impossible choices rise, and the fate of the realm hangs on those willing to stand against what comes through.
Angel Tears
An upcoming release in the Fractured Veil Saga, Angel Tears begins a planned new trilogy set after the events of The Rift.Years after the old battles, Serena is called home by a dying father, an inherited sword, and a legacy she never asked to carry. Her journey toward Gildershire will uncover forgotten truths, abandoned places, and the first signs that the story of the Rift was never as simple as history claimed.
Horror
Shadows
Haakin Fried
Psychological Horror
Daniel came to the house for silence.Far from town, far from distraction, he planned to finish the manuscript no one else would ever read. The rooms were empty. The days were quiet. The isolation was supposed to help him think.But something in the house is wrong.The mirrors hold his reflection a little too long. The crows gather without fear. And the manuscript on his desk begins to change when he is not looking.Shadows is a psychological horror novella about isolation, obsession, memory, and the slow realization that some doors should never be opened.
Literary / Philosophical Fiction
The Arbor of Witness.
Haakin Fried
Born from internal grief and the quiet weight of memory, The Arbor of Witness is a literary work of philosophical fiction currently out with agents.In a room shaped by loss, reflection, and the stories we leave behind, the novel explores what it means to be seen, remembered, judged, and carried forward. It is a meditation on grief, consequence, faith, doubt, and the invisible systems that bind a life together after everything has changed.The Arbor of Witness stands apart from the Fractured Veil Saga as one of Haakin Fried’s most personal works — a story not of battles and monsters, but of memory, meaning, and the cost of being human.
Children's Adventure
The Ship: Adventures of Felix
Finn Wilder — Upcoming Release
Finn Wilder writes children’s science fiction adventures filled with humor, courage, strange planets, and big imagination. His upcoming Adventures of Felix series follows a young space explorer, a silly ship named Gus, a serious safety AI named Pip, and a robot cat named Pixel.
Dark Romance
Alice
Dorian Vane
A dark erotic romance by Dorian Vane, Alice is currently available as an ebook, with a revised paperback edition in development.Alice came to the house to serve. She did not expect to be seen.Revin Lang lives by order, restraint, and control. His estate is quiet, immaculate, and full of locked doors. When Alice is chosen to replace his retiring housekeeper, she steps into a world where obedience is not demanded, but offered — and every choice carries weight.Behind the doors of the Lang estate, surrender becomes ritual, discipline becomes devotion, and Alice discovers that being kept may be the first freedom she has ever known.
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