There’s a particular kind of ache that only comes after everything changes.
Not the kind that explodes.
The kind that settles.
The kind that sits quietly in your chest and asks harder questions than you were ready to answer.
That’s where Shadowed Truths begins.
And on Saturday, April 23 at 1 PM, that next chapter officially opens.
Preorders for Shadowed Truths, Book Two of The Chronicles of Fate, will go live on my author site at exactly 1 PM — the same afternoon I’ll be set up at the BookBash Author Expo in Conneaut, Ohio.
It feels right to launch something this personal in a room filled with readers. There’s something grounding about sharing a new story in person, about watching someone hold it before they even know what it’s going to cost them emotionally.
Beginning April 23 at 1 PM:
Paperback and hardcover preorders will be available directly through my author site.
eBook preorders will be available on Amazon.
All print preorders can either be shipped to you or picked up in person on release day, November 10, 2026.
I haven’t secured a venue for the release signing yet — that part is still unfolding — but I promise the location will be announced well before November. Some moments deserve the right setting.
Every preorder will be autographed and will include a new bookmark and a couple of small surprise goodies — quiet tokens that say you believed in this story before it was fully in the world.
If you’re already feeling the shift and don’t want to wait until April, you can read the prologue of Shadowed Truths now by clicking here.
Consider it the first crack in the glass.
Marked by Fate asked what it meant to carry a Mark, to step into something bigger than yourself.
Shadowed Truths turns inward. It asks what happens after the awe fades. After the fear becomes familiar. After you realize that being chosen doesn’t mean being safe.
We still have time before April. Time to revisit Book One. Time to notice the cracks in the glass that maybe didn’t seem important at first. Time to wonder what was really happening beneath the surface.
Over the next few months, I’ll start sharing glimpses — careful ones. Not spoilers. Just atmosphere. Pieces of the emotional landscape.
But if you want to be there at the exact moment the door opens, mark your calendar:
April 23. 1 PM.
