THE SERIES
Nearly seven centuries. Eight books. One hidden history.
Follow twenty-eight immortal Guardians from the Black Death in 1349 to the present day. Each book holds one coherent historical era — real events fixed to their true dates, with the Guardians' own covenant clock measured against them. This is their chronicle: a hidden history, anchored to the real world.
Born of the Covenant
1349–1375 CE · Human Foundation
AVAILABLE NOWIn four forest-bound villages, life is shaped by survival, belief, and the quiet fear of what lies beyond the trees. As children come of age, they are drawn into an ancient promise meant to protect their people at any cost.
Before immortality, before monsters and myths, there are only human choices—and the foundations of a Covenant that will endure long after they are gone.
Coming of age • Moral inheritance • Community sacrifice • Faith and fear • Choice without certainty • Foundations of restraint • Humanity before power
Veins of the Covenant
1375–1400 CE · Guardian Foundation
IN PROGRESSThe mirror of Book One: their foundation as Guardians. Twenty-eight villagers wake as something else entirely and must build a moral code from nothing—the hunger, the first ethical feeding, a prison meant to prove their restraint, and parents who no longer recognise the children they raised. Close and unflinching, this is the raw beginning of everything the Guardians become.
First blood and the ethics of feeding • The covenant made law • The Sanctum Order revealed • Grief and inheritance • What it costs to build restraint from nothing
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Crucible of the Covenant
1400–1500 CE · The Renaissance
PLANNEDA century of the world cracking open. With their foundation set, the Guardians take the covenant beyond the forest for the first time. The printing press threatens secrecy that has held for generations, and an ocean crossing changes how far they'll ever need to reach again.
Going global, secretly • The printing press as threat • First alliances abroad • A new generation of Guardians • Local becomes global
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The Crimson Covenant
1500–1650 CE · Reformation & Religious Wars
PLANNEDEurope tears itself apart over faith, and an age of witch hunts makes anything hidden lethally dangerous to be. As the Sanctum Order feeds on the chaos, the Guardians shield the innocent caught between Catholic and Protestant—knowing that being different has never carried a higher price.
The Sanctum Order at its most powerful • Witch hunts and persecution • Faith as both cover and danger • Protecting the innocent • The cost of being different
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Reason & Revolution (title TBD)
1650–1800 CE · Reason & Revolution
PLANNEDReason rises, and it turns on the supernatural itself. As science begins to explain the world, the Guardians face a harder truth: an educated, rational public is far more dangerous to hide from than a superstitious one. They must learn to hide behind method rather than myth.
The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment • Hiding behind method, not myth • The weight of centuries on the original twenty-eight • Helena and Agnes carry the network forward
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Industrial & Empire (title TBD)
1800–1914 CE · Industrial & Empire
PLANNEDThe machine age arrives—steam, railways, and cities exploding into the modern world. Then comes the invention that threatens the Guardians more than any enemy ever has: the photograph, and the permanent proof that they do not age.
Photography as existential threat • Constant identity changes • Hiding in the great cities • The Order industrialises too
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World Wars & the Atomic Age (title TBD)
1914–1950 CE · World Wars & the Atomic Age
PLANNEDThe shortest span in the series, and the densest. Two world wars bring industrial-scale horror that centuries of strength cannot stop. Here, being ancient is no defence against what humanity does to itself.
Helpless witnesses to industrial-scale horror • The moral inverse of ethical feeding • Psychological devastation • The atomic age forces a reinvention of secrecy
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The Digital Veil & Present (title TBD)
1950–2025 CE · The Digital Veil & Present
PLANNEDThe recorded world arrives. Cold War, surveillance, the camera in every pocket—hiding, the one thing the Guardians have done for six centuries, becomes nearly impossible. The series reaches the present day, where a hidden world presses hard against one that forgets nothing.
Helena and Agnes, the last living links to the founding • A wholly modern Guardian generation • Can a hidden world survive total recall? • The series' present-day frontier