The
Penitential Axiom
In AD 1822, two heroes convene in an office in the recently liberated city of Guayaquil to decide the conclusion of their revolutionary wars. Their meeting is long, lonely, and tense. No one knows for sure what happened, only what transpired afterward: General José de San Martín, liberator of the Southern Cone, forsook his protectorship of Peru and rode into the heart of the Andes. There, he conducted a guerrilla campaign against the last royalist stronghold on the continent in the service of a maverick mestizo with a mandate from Heaven. In the North, Simón Bolívar returns to his grand project, rebuffed from expanding his vision further south. He consolidates his new republic, purifies its government, and plans for the future. Liberty will not be denied a second time. Both men knew in those July days that the fate of America was in their hands, but they could not have known how long a fate it was.
Works
The Chronicle of Qarawi-epic
These are the events that set in motion the whole of the Penitential Axiom. In the uncertainty and agony of the Spanish American independence wars, General José de San Martín has met his match in the tumultuous hell of Peru. At the end of his rope, he places the future of his dream of a liberated America in the hands of a man lost to himself and unwanted by his countrymen. Clemente Rosario de Ibañez delivers Peru's independence, but his image of a better tomorrow is anathema to the Liberator's.
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This epic series chronicles the infant years of the Penitential Axiom. This is the story of youthful dreams, broken hearts, the rise of Peru, and the fall of House Ibañez. Coming next.
W.B. Mason Private Investigative Services-pulps
In the city of Juigalpa, Central America, American private detective W.B. Mason has opened a private detective agency. Eager to tap into a burgeoning market and get away for a while, Mason throws himself into every mystery and misery that Edwardian Middle America has to offer. Read now in Story Samples.
The Eschatology of Love & Supplication-novel
Love & Supplication is a composite novel concerned with what men do in the darkest shadows of their brightest passions. When a generation of men see their optimism and futures come face to face with trauma and devastation never before seen, they must make sense of their lives or be lost to themselves forever. Coming summer 2025.