From death comes life
A military fantasy trilogy, newly edited and redesigned.
Book one returns October 31, 2026.
Five keys. Five mirrors.
Five nightmares sealed behind glass.
For forty years the Rulers of the five Realms have kept one secret between them. Now the Realms are at war, the Rulers are dying, and whoever wears the bracer of keys holds the power to open every mirror in Candor.
Book one
King Camden is dead.
Forty years of peace end in a single morning. The Grogan war machines come over the ridge at dawn, and by dark the town of Cotswold burns to ash — its people scattered into the pines, its dead uncounted, and Grift Shepherd dragged away in chains.
His son, Kull, chases after him. He has no rank, no orders, and no idea that his father was taken for what he knows.
Coming October 31, 2026 in paperback and ebook
Book two
The mirrors are open.
Seam Panderean has ascended, wearing the five Keys on his arm and calling himself High King. Willyn Kara has one chance to stop him, and one secret worth more than the chance: whoever holds the bracer holds the Serubs, and the Serubs are older than Candor itself.
But the thing sealed deepest has been speaking to her for a long time now. It is patient. It is polite. And it is almost finished asking.
Coming November 28, 2026 in paperback and ebook
Book three
The Dominion has fallen. A new enemy arises.
Isphet, the god of chaos, means to tear through the Veil and unlock the Sea of Souls, even if he has to burn every Realm to the ground to do it. What stands in his way is a militia cobbled out of five broken nations and a soldier with a metal arm and nothing left to lose.
Everything the mirrors were built to hold is breaking through the glass. The only question left is what survives on the other side.
Coming December 19, 2026, with the complete trilogy
Seth & Casey on the trilogy
The two of us sat down to talk about writing The Red Deaths, what changed in the new editions, and why we wanted to bring Candor back.
The Red Deaths: Relaunch and Reflections
One email when each book lands, plus new conversations from the making of the series. Nothing else.