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This fragment belongs to the world of Ashes & Iron, where not every truth becomes a story. Lost Chapters often linger on the margins: the people who arrive just in time to understand what has happened, and too late to change it. These scenes can be read in any order. They are not required to…
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This fragment belongs to the world of Ashes & Iron, where consequences often arrive quietly, long after the sound that announced them. Lost Chapters focus on what happens after: the moments that follow public signals and unfold in private spaces, where grief adjusts itself without ceremony. These scenes can be read in any order. They…
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This fragment belongs to the world of Ashes & Iron, where the passing of time is measured less by calendars than by habit, weather, and loss. Lost Chapters capture moments that feel ordinary while they are happening: mornings that arrive colder than expected, routines that adjust without comment, dangers that grow familiar before they become…
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This fragment belongs to the world of Ashes & Iron, where memory is shaped as much by what is recovered as by what is taken. Lost Chapters linger on moments that resist explanation: objects laid out on cold ground, conversations that circle without landing, conclusions drawn because they must be. These scenes can be read…
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This fragment belongs to the world of Ashes & Iron, where survival often arrives quietly and without permission. Lost Chapters capture moments that never announce themselves as important: routines formed in heat and shadow, mercies extended without witnesses, lives preserved not by strength or law but by proximity and chance. These scenes can be read…
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This fragment belongs to the world of Ashes & Iron, where institutions move carefully and words are weighed before they are recorded. Lost Chapters are moments preserved in margins and minutes: decisions shaped by silence, dissent noted without argument, and warnings that arrive without signatures. They can be read in any order. They are not…
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This fragment belongs to the world of Ashes & Iron, where industry writes its rules in ink and enforces them in iron. Lost Chapters capture moments that pass without ceremony: warnings posted too late, truths written too quietly, mercies offered without authority. These scenes exist alongside the saga, not within its spine. They can be…
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This fragment belongs to the world of Ashes & Iron — a historical noir saga shaped by industry, borderlands, and the quiet decisions that determine who is carried forward and who is not. Lost Chapters are moments that never found their way into the main volumes: scenes too small to alter history, yet heavy enough…
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An important milestone has been reached in the Ash & Iron franchise. Part 1 of a 5 book saga, The Foundry Boys has officially completed its editorial passes. With the manuscript now finalized, publication preparations are underway—and the first volume should be hitting shelves soon. “Set in the 1920s, at the hard edge of Prohibition,…
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At Plantin, Defoe & Franklin Publishing, we spend a lot of time thinking about a deceptively simple question: how do you preserve a human voice while elevating craft to a professional, publishable standard—at scale, across a full saga?