The Red Cloth
A dark military fantasy series
The Quiet School
Before the Brynnland Front. Before Charlie-Three. Before the lie. See how Roric Alen became Maren Vosk. Descend into the depths of The Quiet School — where they teach you to kill without a sound, and the first thing they take is your name.
The Trench Mage
To be seen is to be known.
To be known is to invite obliteration.
On the Brynnland Front, they call Charlie-Three the Immortals — a platoon that walks out of battles that should have ground them to nothing. The army credits luck and good sergeants. The truth is Maren Vosk.
Trained by the Quiet School to deflect bullets and break minds without a sound, Maren is a weapon disguised as a soldier. His job: protect his platoon. His rule: never let them find out. Because a mage who is known becomes a target — and every man standing near him becomes collateral.
For eight months, the lie holds. He turns aside death while they credit luck. He watches their backs and refuses their friendship. He laughs at their jokes and buries the warmth before it can take root.
Then the Grinder comes. Cut off on a frozen hill, outnumbered and alone, Maren's quiet protections aren't enough. The enemy is designed to break him, and it's working.
Now he faces the only choice the Quiet School never prepared him for: keep hiding and watch his platoon die — or shatter every rule that keeps him alive, and save the men he loves by becoming the thing that will get them killed.
The Hazard Pool
The sequel to The Trench Mage. More details coming soon.