T.R. Wren
A complete five-book series of literary speculative fiction. Book One out now. Books Two to Five are in final revision and proofreading, and all five are out by New Year's Day 2027.
Book One ·
Every kindness has a price. He cannot be charged.
Out nowHe woke in a weighhouse, in a republic where every debt is weighed to the grain, and the great scale could not weigh him.
Countries: Tares, Selm, Velle, The Province
Book Two ·
Three borders together. Not the fourth.
Pre-orderEvery citizen is bonded to another. Every account is shared. Solitude is the one poverty the law recognizes. And for the first time, the traveler whom no instrument could ever read becomes legible: through someone else's burned hand, felt in his own.
Countries: Gemel, Holm, Rondel, Vale
Book Three ·
Here, silence is entered as evidence.
Pre-orderThere are countries where what you say is the crime, and countries where the crime is what you do not say.
Countries: Morrow, Candor, Sessa, Lenis
Book Four ·
Mercy, on a schedule.
Pre-orderSalve holds your bad news in escrow until you are ready for it. Plur taxes a great grief, shares it out across the whole country, and lets it fall as rain. The Sanctuary will never let you be alone, which is its mercy and its whole law. Palun will revise your worst decision out of your life, cleanly, with a better record than the truth.
Countries: Salve, Plur, The Sanctuary, Palun
Book Five ·
Sixteen borders. One sealed question. A table set for two.
Coming 1 Jan 2027At the edge of the map there is a country that refuses to finish itself. Every evening its people vote, and every night the ground rebuilds the streets around what they decided. They are the displaced of every perfect republic: the erased, the expired, the revised, the unpaired. They are trying to found something, and they have asked the one man no country could ever classify to help them decide what must never be allowed to happen.
Countries: The Federation, Hosten, Venir, The Unfinished Country
All five in one ebook ·
Twenty countries. One unclassifiable man. Every law kept too well.
Coming 1 Jan 2027A former keeper of accounts is carried, without warning or consent, between countries that should not exist. Each was built on a single promise about what must never be allowed to happen again, and each keeps that promise past the point where keeping it begins to cost.
